![]() (Some of Trump’s comments have been lightly edited for clarity. Can you believe it?’ I said, ‘Not really. Really? Are you serious?’ He said, ‘Yeah, they’re canceling it. “My son said, ‘Dad, they’re canceling the PGA Championship. “My son, who’s a great guy, called,” Trump said. Trump said he heard about the PGA’s decision from his son Eric, who runs the golf business of the Trump Organization. To say they impacted the professional golf schedule is beyond trite - but they did. Even after Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election, the PGA was something he eagerly anticipated.Īnd then came the Jan. He had his major, the first of many, he hoped. He was finally rewarded on April 30, 2014, when the PGA of America announced that Trump’s course in Bedminster, N.J., would be the venue for the 2022 PGA Championship. Anybody who knows Trump as a golf entrepreneur knows the intense wooing he has done in an attempt to achieve that goal. The 2022 PGA Championship would have been the first time any of his 25 or so courses had been used for one of the four major men’s events. For more than six years, Trump looked forward to being the host this week. Trump watches a lot of golf on TV but his decision not to watch this year’s PGA Championship is an informal act of protest. On Wednesday he said something that he has said many times before: “I only do great. ![]() Prior to that, I had interviewed him often over a 15-year period as he went on a golf-course buying spree. I had not talked to him in about seven years. Throughout the interview, which came with no advance notice, Trump sounded relaxed and upbeat and much as he did before he entered politics. Capitol and the threat to American democracy and ideals it represented. Trump was referring to a long piece I wrote, posted on the Fire Pit Collective website on Monday, that seeks to explain why the PGA of America moved this year’s tournament from Trump Bedminster to Southern Hills in the wake of the Jan. The only thing I like about it is that I love Oklahoma where, as you pointed out brilliantly, I have won 77 outta 77 counties. ![]() “I won’t be watching it, no,” Trump told me in a phone interview. Donald Trump, former president of the United States and golf nut, said in a phone interview on Wednesday night that he will not be watching the 104th PGA Championship, which began here on Thursday at the historic Southern Hills Country Club, site of seven previous major championships. The former President called to weigh in on our recent piece… and he had plenty to say
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