Donald Trump’s famed Trump Nationwide Doral course will host a PGA Tour occasion subsequent season, returning to the circuit after a 10-year absence, the tour confirmed on Tuesday.
Doral’s “Blue Monster” was a daily cease on the PGA circuit for greater than half a century, internet hosting a event yearly from 1962 to 2016, when it staged the WGC-Cadillac Championship.
Nonetheless the event was moved from Doral after sponsor Cadillac determined to not renew its sponsorship and a alternative sponsor couldn’t be discovered.
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The PGA Tour, which had been sharply important of Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign rhetoric regarding immigrants, subsequently moved the occasion to Mexico — prompting a livid response from Trump on the time.
Doral has since hosted a cease on the Saudi Arabia-financed LIV Golf circuit. As of subsequent season, nonetheless, the course will stage The Miami Championship, which is able to develop into one of many PGA Tour’s 9 signature occasions — the elite tournaments that characteristic the world’s finest gamers and provide purses of $20 million.
“We’re excited to showcase the sport’s best gamers competing at golf’s most iconic venues,” PGA Tour chief govt Brian Rolapp mentioned in an announcement to announce the 2026 schedule.
“Impressed by our gamers and followers, we’re accelerating the Tour’s evolution and ushering in a brand new period of innovation on and off the course.”
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The PGA Tour has had an uneasy relationship with avid golfer Trump over the previous decade.
The tour issued an announcement in 2015 which mentioned Trump’s remarks about Mexican immigrants had been “inconsistent with our sturdy dedication to an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere within the recreation of golf”.
When the PGA Tour subsequently moved its WGC occasion to Mexico for business causes following the failure to discover a sponsor, Trump reacted angrily, describing it as a “unhappy day for Miami, the USA and the sport of golf”.
“They’re shifting it to Mexico Metropolis,” Trump mentioned on the time. “I hope they’ve kidnapping insurance coverage.”
Trump’s relationship with the PGA Tour has improved in recent times nonetheless, with the US chief concerned in peace talks between the tour and LIV Golf over a potential deal to unify the 2 rival circuits.
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