PGA Goes After Saudi Fund and Its Chief as LIV Feud Widens (2)

PGA Tour Inc. is widening its antitrust clash with Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf, asking a US judge for permission to add the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund as a defendant to a lawsuit it filed last year.

The $620 billion Public Investment Fund and its chief, Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan, allegedly helped LIV violate US antitrust laws by luring PGA players with millions of dollars to breach their contracts, the PGA Tour said in a filing Tuesday night in federal court in San Jose, California.

Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan

Photographer: Mohammed Al-Nemer/Bloomberg

“Recently produced documents confirm that PIF and Mr. Al-Rumayyan played an active and central role ...