Patrick Reed is the most recent member of LIV Golf to show from the course to courtroom, as the previous Masters champion filed a defamation swimsuit towards Golf Channel and commentator Brandel Chamble on Tuesday.
The foremost declare of Reed’s criticism is that Chambly and the Golf Channel conspired with the PGA Tour and commissioner Jay Monahan to defame Reed “when he was 23 years old”—9 years earlier.
Reid’s allegations embrace “misinformation with false information and/or reckless disregard of the truth that is genuine and with constitutional malice, intentionally omitting relevant material facts to mislead the public, and destroying his reputation.” To actively goal (Reed), create hatred for, and a piece atmosphere that’s hostile to him.”
In January 2020, Reid’s lawyer despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Chambal, demanding that he not repeat allegations that Reid had cheated throughout a match.
Reid was given a two-stroke penalty for correcting his lie within the bunker on the Hero World Challenge in 2019, however claimed he didn’t intend to take action.
Chambly continued to rent Reid through the years, not just for allegations of fraud but additionally for his determination to hitch LIV Golf from the PGA Tour earlier this yr.
Reed says that followers harassed him due to Chambly’s opinion and known as him a rookie within the match.
Although a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour, Reid clearly felt Monahan and the Tour had been behind him.
According to the lawsuit, “Despite his extraordinary world-class {golfing} achievements, in June of 2022, Mr. Reid was constructively terminated as a member of the PGA Tour as a result of threats and motion taken by its (sic) Commissioner J. As a results of Monahan and his PGA Tour, and signed with LIV Golf.
The PGA Tour indefinitely suspended its members who had performed within the LIV occasion earlier in June with out the tour’s consent. Reid did not attend LIV till the second occasion of its eight-tournament schedule final month in North Plains, Ore. Due to this he was suspended.
Reid’s criticism was filed within the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas in his hometown of Houston.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
