The nine-time Tour winner has filed a defamation suit in the Southern District of Texas against Brandel Chamblee and Golf Channel, alleging they “have conspired as joint tortfeasors for and with the PGA Tour, its executives and its Commissioner Jay Monahan, to engage in a pattern and practice of defaming Mr. Reed.”
The lawsuit uses quotes from Chamblee from his time on the air for Golf Channel and Sky Sports as well as on podcasts to allege damages in excess of $750,000,000. This comes after 10 LIV Golf players — Reed not one of them — filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour in Northern California. Last week, Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones were denied their request for a temporary restraining order which would have seen them re-added to the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
