LIV Golf’s New Top Lawyer Has Experience Challenging the PGA (1)

Aug. 10, 2022, 9:30 AM UTCUpdated: Aug. 10, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

LIV Golf, the upstart professional golf circuit making waves with its big-money recruitment of PGA Tour players, has landed John Loffhagen as its chief legal officer.

Loffhagen spent nearly two decades at IMG, where he was the sports and entertainment talent management giant’s head of legal for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He left IMG in late 2017 to do consulting work for the sports industry.

LIV’s new legal chief brings with him experience working for another renegade golf league, a resume that could pay off as LIV seeks to challenge the PGA’s supremacy as the home of global ...

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