Golf villain's new $393m fight with media 'jackals'

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Controversial play prima Patrick Reed has launched a caller $393 cardinal suit claiming defamation by a fig of media outlets and writers.

It comes hardly a period aft helium updated a abstracted civilian assertion seeking astir $1.18 cardinal successful damages, which primitively targeted the Golf Channel but past added Golfweek and a fig of idiosyncratic journalists.

Reed played connected the PGA Tour - winning golf's astir coveted lawsuit The Masters successful 2018 - but defected to the rebel LIV league successful June, wherever helium has already accumulated much than $12.5 cardinal successful prizemoney unsocial - connected apical of a sizeable joining interest which has remained undisclosed.

In the caller lawsuit filed this week successful Jacksonville, Reed claims defamation by the New York Post, Fox Sports, Associated Press, Hachette Book Group and a fig of idiosyncratic writers.

Within the documents of the civilian suit filed, Reed's lawyer Larry Klayman claims his lawsuit was forced to permission the PGA Tour due to the fact that his estimation had been damaged truthful badly, and helium didn't consciousness harmless portion playing.

"My client's determination to LIV Golf was chiefly owed to this mistreatment, wherever capable information was not adjacent provided astatine PGA Tour events," Klayman wrote successful the lawsuit.

"Where hostile fans vilified and threatened Mr Reed, his wife, caddie, and coach, acknowledgment to the fertile defamation and different alleged amerciable acts of defendants successful these 2 precocious filed lawsuits.

"Mr Reed, connected behalf of himself, his family, and colleagues, simply volition not instrumentality it anymore and helium is warring backmost successful the courts to not conscionable redeem his rightful estimation for honesty and superior play achievements and successes... but besides to support his loved ones from the likes of Shane Ryan, Doug Ferguson and the remainder of the jackals who marque their atrocious and pathetic surviving spreading lies and mendacious accusation astir him.

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"These types of journalists, publishers and networks springiness the bully ones a atrocious name, by publishing and broadcasting mendacious accusation to the masses for their ain fiscal summation to make readers, viewership, clicks.

"And for nary different crushed than to usage Mr Reed callously and cruelly arsenic a instrumentality to marque money, nary substance however harmful it has been oregon volition beryllium to his career, his family, colleagues and his life."

Reed's newest suit mostly targets play writer Shane Ryan, who wrote the book, "The Cup They Couldn't Lose: America, The Ryder Cup, and The Long Road to Whistling Straits.".

In the book, Ryan says Reed was kicked retired of assemblage for 2 alcohol-related incidents, and details a fig of cheating allegations against the 32-year-old passim his nonrecreational golfing career.

Ryan connected Thursday responded to Reed's suit via Twitter.

"Obviously it's not thing I tin remark connected overmuch now, but I americium going to accidental the happening aforesaid happening I said 7 years agone erstwhile this was threatened: I basal by my reporting 100 per cent," Ryan wrote.

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