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YouTube golf star Grant Horvat's reported invitation to play a PGA Tour event this summer and the suspension of PGA Tour pro Wesley Bryan have caught the attention of five-time major champion Phil Mickelson.
Horvat, a South Fork High grad and former Palm Beach Atlantic golfer, published on social media Wednesday that he'd received a sponsor's invitation to play the PGA Tour's Barracuda Championship.
The Barracuda Championship, an opposite-field event to the Open Championship, will be played July 17-20 at Old Greenwood in California.
An amateur who recently tied for 25th in a minor pro event at Jupiter's Abacoa Golf Club, Horvat took to social media to ask fans for advice on whether he should compete alongside some of the world's best golfers at the PGA Tour event.
Horvat is one of the biggest names in YouTube golf with more than a million subscribers to his channel and hundreds of thousands of followers on his Instagram and TikTok accounts.
He won the PGA Tour's Creator Classic at The Players Championship in March and hosted LIV Golf's "The Duels" broadcast on his YouTube channel at Trump National Doral Miami.
More: How Grant Horvat fared in pro tournament at Jupiter's Abacoa Golf Club
Participation in the latter event has temporarily cost professional golfer Wesley Bryan his ability to play PGA Tour events.
Golf website MondayQ reported Wednesday that Bryan had been suspended indefinitely by the PGA Tour for his participation in "The Duels."
The PGA Tour has previously banned tour members, such as Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, who defected to the Saudi-backed tour.
Bryan has five career top five finishes and nine top 10 finishes in 134 career PGA Tour events. He joined the PGA Tour in 2017 and has more than $5 million in earnings.
Bryan and his brother George also create YouTube videos on their "Bryan Bros Golf" channel, which has more than 500,000 subscribers.
"For the last eight or nine years, the opportunities have been amazing," Bryan told Monday Q. "I'm extremely grateful to the Tour for that. I don't want this to be the end of my professional golf career."
Mickelson, who has been one of the PGA Tour's most vocal critics in recent years, took to X on Wednesday to call on the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene on Bryan's behalf.
"Here’s a question. Normally when an entity violates independent contract law, they deny that it happened and forces the contractor/individual to prove that it did.
"In this case the PGA Tour blatantly admits they are illegally banning an independent contractor so why doesn’t they DOJ step in and enforce the law? Why does the individual have to sue to enforcer the law? DOJ do your fffing job!"
Horvat later posted his own support for Bryan via X, stating, "#FreeWesley."
Eric J. Wallace is deputy sports editor for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at [email protected].
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Phil Mickelson calls out PGA Tour after it suspended golfer for LIV event
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Horvat, a South Fork High grad and former Palm Beach Atlantic golfer, published on social media Wednesday that he'd received a sponsor's invitation to play the PGA Tour's Barracuda Championship.
The Barracuda Championship, an opposite-field event to the Open Championship, will be played July 17-20 at Old Greenwood in California.
An amateur who recently tied for 25th in a minor pro event at Jupiter's Abacoa Golf Club, Horvat took to social media to ask fans for advice on whether he should compete alongside some of the world's best golfers at the PGA Tour event.
Horvat is one of the biggest names in YouTube golf with more than a million subscribers to his channel and hundreds of thousands of followers on his Instagram and TikTok accounts.
He won the PGA Tour's Creator Classic at The Players Championship in March and hosted LIV Golf's "The Duels" broadcast on his YouTube channel at Trump National Doral Miami.
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More: How Grant Horvat fared in pro tournament at Jupiter's Abacoa Golf Club
Wesley Bryan suspension catches Phil Mickelson's eye
Participation in the latter event has temporarily cost professional golfer Wesley Bryan his ability to play PGA Tour events.
Golf website MondayQ reported Wednesday that Bryan had been suspended indefinitely by the PGA Tour for his participation in "The Duels."
The PGA Tour has previously banned tour members, such as Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, who defected to the Saudi-backed tour.
Bryan has five career top five finishes and nine top 10 finishes in 134 career PGA Tour events. He joined the PGA Tour in 2017 and has more than $5 million in earnings.
Bryan and his brother George also create YouTube videos on their "Bryan Bros Golf" channel, which has more than 500,000 subscribers.
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"For the last eight or nine years, the opportunities have been amazing," Bryan told Monday Q. "I'm extremely grateful to the Tour for that. I don't want this to be the end of my professional golf career."
Mickelson, who has been one of the PGA Tour's most vocal critics in recent years, took to X on Wednesday to call on the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene on Bryan's behalf.
"Here’s a question. Normally when an entity violates independent contract law, they deny that it happened and forces the contractor/individual to prove that it did.
"In this case the PGA Tour blatantly admits they are illegally banning an independent contractor so why doesn’t they DOJ step in and enforce the law? Why does the individual have to sue to enforcer the law? DOJ do your fffing job!"
Horvat later posted his own support for Bryan via X, stating, "#FreeWesley."
Eric J. Wallace is deputy sports editor for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at [email protected].
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Phil Mickelson calls out PGA Tour after it suspended golfer for LIV event
Continue reading...
