Davis Love III: Players Hold All the Cards, Could Start Boycotting Events

Speaking at the Wyndham Championship this week, U.S. Presidents Cup team captain Davis Love III weighed in on the current situation in golf: the split created by LIV Golf and the PGA Tour by not allowing those LIV defectors to play in PGA Tour events.

He blamed the current situation on LIV players like Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, and Bryson DeChambeau, saying that “they turned their back on their friends.”

Love III went on to say that if a court reverses the PGA Tour’s ruling to indefinitely suspend the LIV players, he suggested that the PGA Tour pros could take matters into their own hands.

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“I was saying that if the LIV guys sue and are allowed to play on the PGA Tour, that the players are enough fed up with it, we understand that we make the rules on the PGA Tour and the commissioner’s enforcing our rules and we don’t want those guys playing, come and cherry picking our tournaments, that we hold all the cards, not Jay [Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner] or not Seth Waugh [PGA of America CEO] or Mike Whan [USGA CEO].

“They don’t hold all the cards, we hold all the cards. If we say to the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] and to Washington, no, we support the rules, we don’t want those guys playing, we don’t care what the courts say, our only option really, the nuclear option is to say, well, fine, if they have to play in our events, we just won’t play.”

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What did Love III say to players who backed out on the Presidents Cup in order to join LIV?

“I tried to sound like my dad and I probably wasn’t very good at it. I didn’t argue. I said, look, you can do this or you can do this. You can be Tiger Woods or you can be banned from the game, take your pick.”