Report: Tiger Woods 'fought tooth and nail' to hide damning PGA Tour docs
Right-wing attorney Larry Klayman has made a series of accusations against PGA Tour legend Tiger Woods and commissioner Jay Monahan.
Tiger Woods 'fought tooth and nail' to prevent documents that outlined his alleged involvement in the PGA Tour's scheme to monopolize the golf industry from being made public, according to right-wing American attorney Larry Klayman.
Klayman made the claim after his lawsuit against the PGA Tour was dismissed last week by a circuit court judge in Palm Beach County, Florida.
The complaint accused the PGA Tour of colluding with the Official World Golf Ranking 'and others' to kill LIV Golf in its infancy.
Judge Delgado dismissed the claim, that was lodged two-and-a-half years ago, on 30 August.
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But Klayman has appealed and also plans to sue PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, 54, and Woods, 48, for fraud.
In news release, Klayman criticised Delgado's ruling and accused the judge of allowing 'the case to be turned into a virtually secret star chamber, with little to no public access'.
Klayman also accused Delgado of not having enough time to properly delve 'thoroughly into the facts' and 'got tired' after being overwhelmed by the 'mountains of pleadings thrown at him' by the attorneys for the Tour and the 15-time major champion.
Of Woods, he wrote: "During the limited discovery that ensued, Tiger Woods, who sits on the PGA Tour's advisory committee and is a PGA Tour official, was forced to produce documents about his alleged involvement in the anticompetitive scheme to monopolize the golf industry.
"The PGA Tour and Monahan, along with lawyers for Woods, fought tooth and nail to keep the Woods documents from being made public."
Klayman also accused Rory McIlroy of 'monopolistic acts'.
Documents in Klayman's antitrust lawsuit were inadvertently made public last July.
The 357 pages of emails and other documents appeared to show how the PGA Tour fought LIV Golf by seeking to strengthen its ties with the DP World Tour.
The docs revealed the strategic talking points that were used to push back against what was viewed as a Saudi threat to golf.
Other revelations included the claim that the PGA Tour provided Woods scripted marks he was to deliver before the 2022 Travelers Championship.
Woods was reportedly going to assert that Monahan was 'the right guy for this war' and it was time for PGA Tour members to 'join the fight'.
It was claimed Woods was to say: "Do what I did: tell the Saudis to go f--- themselves. And mean it."
Woods later denied seeing the documents and never attended the meeting.
Other notable items included in the court filings included the dire financial situation of the DP World Tour that prompted the PGA Tour to intervene.
The documents were resealed after the PGA Tour filed an emergency motion, claiming they contained trade secrets.
Klayman agreed that the release of the documents were a clerical error by the court.
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