3/21/2023 0 Comments Trump no time to golf as president![]() ![]() Trump bought the famous “Blue Monster” course in 2012 and was omnipresent as it hosted an annual World Golf Championship event, featuring all the game’s best, including Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. And not just because he angered so many by trying to stage the G7 summit there in 2019. Trump was summoned on Friday to testify to lawmakers investigating last year’s Capitol riot, while that same day Steve Bannon, his former advisor, was sentenced to four months in jail after he refused to obey his own subpoena to co-operate with that Congressional committee.Īll this will ensure the focus on Trump at Doral will be as intense as ever and nobody will fail to recognise the resonance of the venue. Trump’s involvement at Bedminister made the golf event itself a mere sideshow and it must be feared that once again the pros will seem like extras in the 76-year-old’s “will he or won’t he?” journey towards the next US election. In July, the Saudi-funded circuit rolled into Trump National in New Jersey for a week dominated by controversy as 9/11 victim groups protested outside the gates, while inside the billionaire teed up alongside Yasi Al-Rumayyan - the governor of the Kingdom’s $600 billion Public Investment Fund - hailing the Saudis for “being friends of mine for a long time” and calling them “great for golf”. This is the second time a course owned by Trump will stage a LIV event. It has been confirmed that the former US President will play in Thursday’s pro-am at Trump Doral on the eve of LIV Golf’s $50million (£44 million) season-ender. Only Donald Trump could dare to overshadow the most financially rewarding team event golf has ever witnessed and the former US President is set to do exactly that in Miami over the next week. Trump Doral in Miami is hosting the event which will be richest team event in the sport's history Donald Trump to play in pro-am before LIV Golf's £44m season finale ![]()
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