The R&A stood shoulder to shoulder with the PGA of America. A few hours after the latter body stripped Donald Trump‘s Bedminster course in New Jersey of hosting the PGA Championship next year, the R&A confirmed the Open will not be going to Trump Turnberry either ‘for the foreseeable future’.
Finally, the game is addressing its damaging relationship with Trump. Nothing in golf in recent years has elicited a greater sense of shame and embarrassment than the hideous kowtowing to the American president.
So, is this the moment when golf starts draining the swamp? When it starts socially distancing itself from the blowhard who represents an era of the game that most right-thinking golfers want to leave behind?
It is certainly an important first step. The PGA of America represent the nation’s 29,000 club professionals. Their message, therefore, is the one received at grassroots level where golf is seeking to project itself as an inclusive, family sport. There is not a blue-chip sponsor anywhere who would invest in that dream if Trump was part of the plan.
We await to see if Trump takes legal action over Bedminster. Characteristically, there was a veiled threat in the statement from his team. ‘This is a breach of a binding contract and they had no right to terminate the agreement,’ bleated a spokesman.
Credit: dailymail.co.uk
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