Donald Trump Says PGA Tour 'Mishandled' Decisions Around LIV Golf
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- 28 Oct 2022
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Saying more “big names’’ are headed to LIV Golf, former president Donald Trump criticized the PGA Tour on Thursday for its handling of the rival circuit backed by the Saudi Arabia wealth fund.
Trump also suggested that the R&A would like to return the British Open to his Turnberry course in Scotland; in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. capitol, the R&A said it would not be holding events there “in the foreseeable future."
Trump, who played in the pro-am at his Trump National Doral Golf Club where the LIV Invitational Series Miami event begins Friday, spoke with reporters briefly afterward.
“The Tour mishandled it so badly," Trump said of its decision not to work with LIV but suspend players who participate in LIV Golf events. “The people at the top ... something should happen with them. They mishandled it so badly. They not only had an advantage, they are dealing with very good people with unlimited money. They’re good people with unlimited money. And something could have been worked out very easily.
“And the Tour decided to go, as Richard Nixon said, to stonewall it. That didn’t work out too well for them. As we said before, what they did is bad for golf. They could have had something so incredible. And now they’ve punched into the pension fund in order to lift up prize money. And the players are not happy with that, the pension fund. So it’s going to be very interesting.
“And by the way, a lot of other people are coming over. Big names. You know that. The star system is always very important in sports. Whether it’s sports or anything else. And they’ve got the stars."
LIV Golf has been a disruptive force in golf this year, staging its eighth and final event of the season at Doral, which had a PGA Tour event from 1962 through 2016 but left when a title sponsor could not be secured. It moved to Mexico City, where the WGC-Mexico Championship was played before reverting to a regular Tour event this year. Read More…
