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Originally Posted by Allen89
If I was Ernie I'd tell the PGA Tour to bring it on. If they do anything to him he can just go Casey Martian on them and take it to court. He obviously isn't breaking any rules with the ammount of tournaments he's playing.
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Els would have to be from another planet (Martian perhaps?
) to bring suit against the PGA Tour.
The PGA Tour requires membership. To keep that membership you must abide by the Policies set for membership. If Els (or anyone else) decides they don't want to abide by the rules they have options. One option is to get the Policy Board to change the rules. Another is to resign his membership and play elsewhere.
To-date Els hasn't broken any rules. He's simply requesting that he not be required to play the extra PGA Tour events the PGA Tour requires for him to be granted permission to play other world wide tournaments of his choosing.
Suing The PGA Tour because Els doesn't want to be forced to play in the required number of tournaments would be like a professional basketball player suing the NBA because he doesn't want to play an 82 game schedule.
This scenario is entirely different than the Casey Martin case. Els is not being discriminated against. He has a valid point and I'm sure the Policy Board (which contains current PGA players) will come up with a compromising solution.