Posted on 06/01/2016 4:17:50 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Golf tournament leaving Trump’s Doral course for Mexico
The annual event, in Doral since 1962, is moving to Mexico City
The PGA gave Doral no indication if it will ever return to South Florida
This comes six months after the PGA said it reevaluate the future of the tournament because of Trump’s controversial comments about Mexicans and Muslim
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Okay. Thanks.
Based on the articles it appears the main factors are
1) Players are not happy with the recent redesign of the course.
2) It’s a large, sprawling course which many players dislike. If you’re not a long ball hitter you have little chance of winning.
3) Quirkiness. The course is difficult but some of the difficulty comes from tricky, almost random factors which are hard to address. One golfer gave the example of one hole where even hitting a near perfect shot onto the green can land you into the water based on the luck of the roll from the unpredictable green layout.
Tim Finchem, the current commissioner of the PGA Tour, was a staffer in the Carter white house “Office of Economic Affairs”. He’s just another politically correct ‘Rat.
“Maybe Trump should start his own professional golf series.”
And like the XFL Football League of the 2000’s, it would be a complete joke.
You can’t start something with sheer dollars and threats. That has been proven not to work. There has to be, in this case, a long list of professional golfers that people want to see that are dissatisfied and want to leave the corporation. At this time, golphers completely loyal to the PGA. They are handled quite fairly. Paid quite well. And like the sport or not, they pull people in by the bus load.
Trump starting a golf league in retaliation is fun fantasy, but hopefully he isn’t that stupid. It has been tried many times and failed.
They probably take care of the women these days.
“Predict many pros will chose to not attend”
It seems the golfers are for it. They hold many tournaments in Mexico and have had only 2 issues (on par with the games played in the US).
The pro’s are making statements like, “Well, they’re called the World Golf Championship for a reason,” , and “We just jumped the wall!”.
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