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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPGA should pull 2022 Championship from Racist45's Bedminster golf course
https://www.google.com/amp/s/sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/after-trump-tweets-pga-should-pull-2022-championship-from-bedminster-165552910.html..."Trump owns a vast golf portfolio, but he has never hosted any of the sports crown jewels: a mens major championship. He appeared on track to do so in 2014 when he purchased the Turnberry resort in Scotland, the site of numerous Open Championships and a projected venue for 2020. He slapped his name onto the courseTurnberry became Trump Turnberrythen sat back and waited for his major.
He wouldnt get it. In 2015, members of the R&A, the Opens organizing body, announced that Turnberry was out of the Open venue rotation because of then-candidate Trumps array of controversial campaign trail comments. 2020 will not happen here, one R&A official said at the time. Turnberry will be back. But perhaps not Trump Turnberry.
So the 2022 PGA Championship, already on the books, represented Trumps next, best chance to host a prestigious major. But in the wake of his tweets, the Washington Posts David Farenthold reached out to the PGA for comment:
"As an organization, we are fully committed to Diversity and Inclusion, the PGA said in a statement, but we are not a political organization & simply dont weigh in on statements made in the political arena. (Yahoo Sports has also reached out to the PGA for comment.)
Thats not only a craven dodgediversity and inclusion are the very root of politicsit runs completely counter to golfs recent history of factoring political considerations into tournament decisions.".....(more)
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PGA should pull 2022 Championship from Racist45's Bedminster golf course (Original Post)
Tanuki
Jul 2019
OP
PGA of America (different org. from the PGA Tour) held the 1990 Championship
bullwinkle428
Jul 2019
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Johnny2X2X
(19,107 posts)1. Not going to happen
The PGA has a long history of being late to the game for this type of thing. It's still an old boys network country club sport.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)2. PGA of America (different org. from the PGA Tour) held the 1990 Championship
at Shoal Creek in Alabama, even after it was revealed that it was an all-white club. I recall that a number of companies decided to pull their advertisements, but the event still went on as planned. Of course, they have more time to make a change, but I'm kind of doubting they have the guts to do so.