LIV Golf players demand DP World Tour rescinds fines and bans or risk legal action

Sixteen LIV Golf players, including Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter, have threatened legal action against the DP World Tour if their fines for joining the breakaway tour are not rescinded by Friday.

DP World Tour members were banned from three upcoming DP World Tour events and fined £100,000 ($121,230.00) each after playing in the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf's opening event in the UK. It means the players are currently unable to compete at the DP World Tour and PGA Tour co-sanctioned Scottish Open next week, a key tune-up tournament for the Open Championship.

"Instead of spending our time, energy, financial resources and focus on appeals, injunctions and lawsuits, we would implore you ... to reconsider your recent penalties and sanctions," the letter read, according to the Daily Telegraph.

The players called on the tour to "rescind your fines and suspensions by 5:00 p.m. on Friday".

"If not, you will leave us with no choice but to employ the various other means and methods at our disposal to rectify these wrongs."

The US-based PGA Tour, which announced a 13-year partnership with the DP World Tour this week, has also suspended players for joining the breakaway circuit.

The players said in the letter that the alliance would have a negative impact on DP World Tour players.

"Approximately 40 DP World Tour members who would have been eligible for the Scottish Open on the DP World tour will now not be eligible, and instead will only have the option to go and play on the PGA Tour in Kentucky the week before The Open, for less money but at a higher cost to participate," the letter read.

"That the DP World Tour top performers will now earn PGA Tour cards serves only to solidify the DP World Tour as second fiddle to the PGA Tour and