FanDuel<\/a> is making itself more like its erstwhile rival, DraftKings, to ease the integration process when the two platforms merge, as expected, sometime later this year. DraftKings has been less cautious than FanDuel and has offered golf, since 2015, as well as other gray-area sports, like NASCAR.<\/p>\nSpeaking to Yahoo Sports this week, Eccles seemed certainly more relaxed about the possible legal implications of the decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had been looking at golf for over a year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were mindful of the regulatory environment, but now we have states passing laws and really setting the boundaries of what we can and can\u2019t do. We think there\u2019s a golf product we can do that would be compliant with that and be an awesome experience. We took our time on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FanDuel is to add golf to its DFS menu even though it may be testing the boundaries of legality in the US. The company has been hesitant to offer contests based on golf in the past due to uncertainty in the law. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), which prohibited financial institutions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":43951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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