LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed refiles $750 million defamation lawsuit towards Golf Channel, staff

Golfer Patrick Reed’s attorneys refiled his $750 million defamation lawsuit towards the Golf Channel and analyst Brandel Chamblee in federal courtroom in Jacksonville, Florida, on Thursday, whereas including different Golf Channel staff and media teams to the grievance.

The lawsuit accuses the Golf Channel, Golfweek and its mother or father firm, Gannett, in addition to staff Chamblee, Damon Hack, Shane Bacon and Eamon Lynch, of conspiracy, defamation, injurious falsehood and tortious interference.

Reed initially filed the lawsuit in federal courtroom in Texas on Aug. 16.

The lawsuit alleges the defendants are co-conspirators for his or her “anticompetitive conduct and anticompetitive practices in an effort to destroy the upstart LIV Golf Tour, Mr. Reed, and fellow LIV Golf gamers in an effort to annihilate any competitors with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour even when it means violating antitrust legal guidelines and going to excessive and scandalous measures to conspire to defame, falsely injure and tortiously intervene with Mr. Reed, fellow LIV Tour gamers, and LIV Golf,” based on a information launch from Reed’s lawyer, Larry Klayman.

The information launch stated the defendants labeled Reed a “cheater, liar, a thief, a assassin and somebody who accepts blood cash from terrorists.”

“The PGA Tour’s and its ‘companion’ the NBC’s Golf Channel’s mission is to destroy a prime LIV Golf Tour participant, his household, in addition to all the LIV Golf gamers, to additional their agenda and alleged collaborative efforts to destroy the brand new LIV Golf Tour,” Klayman stated in a launch. “As alleged within the grievance, these calculated malicious assaults have created hate, aided and abetted a hostile office setting, and have brought about substantial monetary and emotional injury and hurt to Mr. Reed and his household.”

Reed, the 2018 Masters champion, resigned from the PGA Tour, which has suspended its members for competing in LIV Golf tournaments with out conflicting-event releases. Reed, a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour, earned greater than $37 million throughout his tour profession.

LIV Golf and three of its gamers have filed a federal antitrust lawsuit towards the PGA Tour, accusing it of illegally suspending them and utilizing its monopoly energy to squash competitors.

“Whereas Defendants’ unending defamation and different alleged unlawful acts with regard to Mr. Reed, as set forth within the grievance, is nothing new, along with his becoming a member of of LIV Golf, it has reached new, insupportable heights,” Klayman stated in a launch. “In consequence, sufficient is sufficient and it’s time for Mr. Reed to guard not solely himself and his household, however all LIV Golfers who’ve been maliciously defamed and harmed with different unlawful acts to additional the PGA Tour’s and the DP World Tour’s allegedly unlawful makes an attempt to keep up their digital monopoly and stranglehold over skilled golf.”