PGA Tour returns to Donald Trump's Doral course in Miami for Cadillac Championship this week after a decade away
Trump National Doral will host a PGA Tour event this season, marking the first time since the Tour moved the annual tournament to Mexico in 2016.
The PGA Tour is back in South Florida this week and set for a new signature event at a course the league hasn’t played at in a decade. The Cadillac Championship will kick off Thursday at Trump National Doral, marking the first time that a Tour event has been played there since it left President Donald Trump’s course for Mexico City. It will be the first Tour event held at one of Trump’s courses while he’s in office.
It’s a signature event, too, so a lot is on the line. Here’s everything you need to know, including Trump’s complicated history and relationship with the PGA Tour, ahead of the event this week. PGA Tour splits with Trump in 2016 Back in 2016, after Cadillac pulled out as the title sponsor, the Tour opted to move the former World Golf Championships event from the Doral course to Mexico City.
The tournament was rebranded to the WGC-Mexico Championship, though the WGC era ended on Tour in 2023. Trump was just a candidate for president at the time, though he was the presumptive Republican nominee for the election that fall. And, similar to the other inflammatory remarks he made toward Mexicans and immigrants in general during his campaign back then, Trump ripped the decision.
“I just heard that the PGA Tour is taking their tournament out of Miami and moving it to Mexico, as an example,” Trump said on a Fox News appearance at the time . “They’re moving it to Mexico City which, by the way, I hope they have kidnapping insurance. ” The Doral course had been a regular stop on Tour since 1962.
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