While praising LIV Golf and the Saudis for doing 'a fantastic job,' former President Donald Trump continued his crusade against the PGA Tour on Thursday during the LIV pro-am at Trump National Doral.
Trump has aligned himself with LIV, the controversial tour financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, partly because of his disdain for the PGA Tour. Trump's anger at professional golf dates to the PGA Tour moving its World Golf Championship event out of Doral and to Mexico in 2017 and the PGA of America moving the 2022 PGA Championship out of his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"They never wanted to go to Mexico," Trump said."The pros didn't want to go to Mexico and they went and that didn't work out. They wanted to be here and the tour wants to be here, too. The tour wants to be here badly."When the tour announced in 2016 that it was moving its event out of Doral, Trump said,"I hope they have kidnapping insurance.
"The PGA is being destroyed by the PGA," Trump said."They were stupid and they shouldn't be stupid. This was a great opportunity for them. "The tour mishandled it so badly and the people at the top, something should happen with them, they mishandled it so badly. The tour decided to go, as Richard Nixon said, to stonewall it. That didn't work out too well for them.""Not bad, right?" he said to a group of reporters after learning they were golf writers."I played pretty good.""I think the course is great," he said.
"We put in over a thousand palm trees. Over the years they started disappearing because of the tour. They put soup stands there, they put up food or some ridiculous thing and they'd take down two palm trees. So we put them all back and multiply it by about 750."
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