Reports claim that there are far-reaching plans for the "Super Golf League" to start with the first competitions next year.
The league is to be backed by big money from Saudi Arabia and is said to have already offered several star players contracts worth 30 million dollars (just over 250 million kronor).
World setter Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson should all have received offers, writes Golf Channel.
Johnson is said to have already said yes, something that is also denied by his agent.
"Like most top players, he has listened to their vision, but that's all," Johnson's agent David Winkle told golf.com.
The PGA Tour is hot
The American PGA Tour, in connection with this week's competition in Charlotte, must at the same time have responded with the threat of immediate suspension, probably for life, the players who choose to jump on the new project die.
It states, among others, British The Telegraph.
Legal battle
In the "Golf Super League", star players - if the league loses - will compete for big money in a Formula 1-like team with the first competitions planned in September 2022.
According to The Telegraph, Saudi investors do not believe that the PGA Tour can shut down members if they join the league and that a legal battle can wait if they do.
In a statement to the news agency Reuters, the European Tour's CEO Keith Pelley says that together with the PGA Tour "they oppose in the strongest possible terms" all proposals for an alternative golf course, for the benefit of the players and fans.
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