The 2022 PGA Championship will not take place at the Trump Bedminster course in New Jersey, the PGA of America, the host body of the Grand Slam golf tournament, announced on Sunday, four days after incidents by supporters of the president American in Washington. “The PGA of America Board of Directors voted this (Sunday) evening to exercise the right to terminate the agreement to host the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster,” said its Chairman, Jim Richardson, in a statement. press release posted on Twitter.
The PGA not serene at the idea of upset a “man deemed vindictive”
This announcement follows the many calls made in the world of golf for the leaders of the sport to distance themselves from Donald Trump, himself a big fan of the little white ball and who often spent time playing during his tenure on his Bedminster course.
Media Golfweek, in a scathing column urging to sever ties with the president, said the PGA of America had been debating for two years whether to move the tournament to another location, but were not serene at the idea of upset a “man deemed vindictive”.
Sanctions already taken against Trump in 2015
This is not the first time that the authorities of American golf have distanced themselves from Trump. In 2015, the American Federation USPGA canceled the PGA Grand Slam at the Trump National Club in Los Angeles after the then presidential candidate made derogatory remarks about Mexican immigrants. In 2016, the PGA Tour decided to move the 2017 World Golf Championship to Mexico, when it was initially to take place at the Doral course, also owned by Trump in Miami. The authority defended itself at the time of the political nature of its decision.
In contrast, the US Golf Association had not canceled or moved the 2017 Women’s US Open, which went well at Trump National in Bedminster, despite sexist comments about women made by Trump during his election campaign.
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