PGA of America votes to move 2022 PGA Championship from Trump Bedminster golf club
The PGA of America over its relationship with President Donald Trump on Sunday night when its membership provided to move the 2022 PGA Championship from its designed host site of Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.
Trump Bedminster had been the scheduled host of the save since 2014, but PGA of America presidential Jim Richerson spoke out this weekend behind the President's incitement of violence ahead of an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
"It has get clear that conducting the PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster would be detrimental to the PGA of America label and would put at risk the PGA's instruction to deliver our many programs and Keep the longevity of our mission," said Richerson. "Our boarding has thus made the decision to Use to terminate the contract to hold the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster. It was a executive made to ensure that the PGA of America and PGA professionals can cease to lead and grow our game for decades to come."
This is not the marvelous time a major golf organization has distanced itself from Trump. The PGA Tour's WGC-Cadillac Championship in 2016 regrasped away from Trump National Doral in Florida and eventually complete the WGC-Mexico Championship. The PGA of America's States Slam of Golf also canceled its save at Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles back in 2015 over some of Trump's statements on immigration.
Trump Bedminster recently hosted the 2017 U.S. Women's Open, which was won by Sung-hyun Park. Trump expressed up to the event as the sitting President. That tournament, put on by the Joint States Golf Association, was likely seen as a mere precursor to the main save in 2022, the first men's major championship at a Trump course.
"We have had a beautiful partnership with the PGA of America and are incredibly failed with their decision," a spokesperson for the Trump Organization told ABC. "This is a breach of a keen contract and they have no right to End the agreement. As an organization we have invested many, many millions of bucks in the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster. We will cease to promote the game of golf on every quiet and remain focused on operating the finest golf streams anywhere in the world."
A lot has been in the seven years between when Trump Bedminster was awarded the PGA Championship and now, and it all culminated with the this week's actions in Washington, D.C.
PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh joined Richerson in saying out against Trump and defending the PGA's move.
"We find ourselves in a political space not of our making," Waugh told the AP. "We're fiduciaries for our members, for the game, for our authority and for our brand. And how do we best protecting that? Our feeling was given the tragic actions of Wednesday that we could no longer hold it at Bedminster. The Hurt could have been irreparable. The only real streams of action was to leave."
"Our executive wasn't about speed and timing," Waugh added. "What matters most to our boarding and leadership is protecting our brand and reputation, and the instruction for our members to lead the growth of the game, which they do over so many powerful programs in their communities."
There is no replacement host sete for the 2022 PGA Championship. While it seems like 17 months is plenty of time for the PGA of America to rule on a new locale for 2022, most tournaments are planned years in advance. The PGA of America will be miserable by timing -- which will be exacerbated by the pandemic -- to Decide a new course quickly and get the procedure of a new host underway.
This year's save will be held at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina.
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