Patrick Reed sues the Golf Channel and Brandel Chamblee for $750m
Another LIV Golfer turns to the courts! Patrick Reed sues the Golf Channel and Brandel Chamblee for defamation over NINE YEARS and seeks damages in excess of $750m… as he claims the pundit’s opinions have led to fans calling him a ‘cheater’ at events
- Patrick Reed has turned from the golf course to the courts with his lawsuit
- The 32-year-old claimed the Golf Channel and commentator Brandel Chamblee have conspired against him, along with the PGA Tour, for nine years
- Reed, who now players on the LIV Golf tour, is seeking $750million in damages
Patrick Reed is the latest member of LIV Golf to turn from the course to the courts, as the former Masters champion filed a defamation lawsuit against Golf Channel and commentator Brandel Chamblee on Tuesday.
The claim central to Reed’s complaint is that Chamblee and Golf Channel conspired with the PGA Tour and commissioner Jay Monahan to defame Reed ‘since he was 23 years old’ – nine years ago.
The suit is apparently seeking damages in excess of $750million.
Reed’s allegations include ‘misreporting information with falsity and/or reckless disregard of the truth, that is with actual and constitutional malice, purposely omitting pertinent key material facts to mislead the public, and actively targeting (Reed) to destroy his reputation, create hate, and a hostile work environment for him.’
In January 2020, Reed’s lawyer sent Chamblee a cease-and-desist letter demanding he not repeat accusations that Reed cheated during a tournament.
Reed was penalized two strokes at the Hero World Challenge in 2019 for improving his lie in a bunker, but he claimed he didn’t intend to do so.
Patrick Reed filed a defamation lawsuit against Golf Channel and Brandel Chamblee
Reed said Chamblee and Golf Channel conspired to defame Reed ‘since he was 23 years old’
Reed’s lawsuit also alleges Chamblee and Golf Channel conspired with the PGA Tour and commissioner Jay Monahan (pictured) to defame Reed
Chamblee continued to take Reed to task over the years, not only for cheating allegations but also for his decision to defect from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf earlier this year.
Reed maintains that Chamblee’s opinions have led to fans heckling him and calling him a cheater at tournaments.
Though a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour, Reed apparently felt Monahan and the tour were after him.
According to the lawsuit, ‘Despite his exceptional world-class golfing achievements, in June of 2022, Mr. Reed was constructively terminated as a member of the PGA Tour, as a result of threats made and action taken by it’s (sic) Commissioner Jay Monahan and his PGA Tour, and signed with LIV Golf.’
The PGA Tour indefinitely suspended its members who played in the first LIV event in June without the tour’s consent.
Reed did not join LIV until the second event of their eight-tournament schedule in North Plains, Ore., last month. He was suspended as a result.
Reed’s complaint was filed before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in his hometown of Houston.
Reed now plays on the LIV Golf tour and was in the recent event at Donald Trump’s course
Reed says that he is often called a ‘cheater’ by crowds because of the coverage around him
Reed won the 2018 Masters, his only major, as well as nine other tournaments on the PGA Tour
As well as being a nine-time PGA Tour winner, Reed also won The Masters in 2018 – to date, the only major to his name.
Last week, a judge ruled against three LIV golfers – Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford – from participating in the FedEx Cup Playoffs in what is expected to be the first of many legal battles between players on the LIV Golf circuit and PGA Tour.
Meanwhile, Tiger Woods held a crunch meeting with fellow anti-LIV PGA Tour pros Tuesday which reportedly went well.
The meeting lasted 3.5 hours and was described as ‘good’ by one player, as reported by ESPN.
The outlet also reports that the meeting was aimed at getting PGA Tour players to be of like mind as the fightback against the Saudi-backed rebel event gathers momentum.
Suggestions will reportedly be raised with PGA Tour commissioner Monahan.
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