The UK golfing world’s governing body says it has no evidence that the sport faces the same claims of of match fixing currently embroiling the tennis world but it’s taking the matter seriously all the same.
R&A CEO Martin Slumbers told the BBC that his group had “not been made aware of any evidence of the type of issues” that have dominated this year’s Australian Open tennis tournament. Regardless, Slumbers insisted the authority wasn’t being “complacent” on the subject.
Slumbers noted that European Tour and British Open players were already required to sign documents declaring their inability to wager on golf events. But Slumbers said the R&A was keeping the betting issue “under careful attention” and if further restrictions were deemed necessary, “we will go further because inappropriate betting will undermine sport.”
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