{"id":357702,"date":"2025-08-19T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357702\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:05:09","slug":"pga-tour-ends-decade-long-absence-from-trump-owned-courses-with-doral-return-in-2026-pga-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357702\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour ends decade-long absence from Trump-owned courses with Doral return in 2026 | PGA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The PGA Tour will return to Donald Trump\u2019s Blue Monster course in Miami next spring, ending a decade-long absence from Trump-owned venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Miami Championship, a $20m Signature Event scheduled for the first weekend in May 2026, will mark the 56th time the Tour has played at Trump National Doral but the first since 2016, the year Trump won his first US presidential election. That year, the WGC-Cadillac Championship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2016\/jun\/01\/donald-trump-doral-golf-course-lose-wgc-event-mexico-city\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was pulled from the resort<\/a> and relocated to Mexico City after Cadillac ended its sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At the time, then-commissioner Tim Finchem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/02\/donald-trump-wgc-cadillac-championship-finance-politics-pga-tour\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stressed that the decision<\/a> was \u201cfundamentally a sponsorship issue\u201d and not political, despite Trump\u2019s incendiary remarks on immigration and his insistence the Tour was punishing him for his first US presidential run. \u201cWe value dollars for our players,\u201d Finchem said in 2016. \u201cWe were not able to secure sponsorship for Doral. From a golf standpoint, we have no issues with Donald Trump. From a political standpoint, we are neutral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Trump, who had spent $250m redeveloping the Doral property, publicly lashed out at the Tour and quipped that he hoped officials had \u201ckidnapping insurance\u201d for the event\u2019s new Mexican host city. For the next decade, the Blue Monster fell off the PGA calendar and instead became a regular site for the upstart LIV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/golf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golf<\/a> series, serving as a centerpiece in the Saudi-backed league\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Now the course returns at a moment of transition for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/pga-tour\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PGA Tour<\/a>. The Miami Championship expands the roster of Signature Events to nine and sits at the heart of a crowded spring. Beginning with the Masters in April, players will face four Signature Events and two majors in a seven-week stretch, with only the Zurich Classic in New Orleans breaking the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited to showcase the game\u2019s greatest players competing at golf\u2019s most iconic venues,\u201d said Brian Rolapp, the Tour\u2019s new chief executive. \u201cInspired by our players and fans, we\u2019re accelerating the Tour\u2019s evolution and ushering in a new era of innovation on and off the course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Miami Championship is expected to secure a title sponsor before its debut. Its addition shifts the Mexico Open into the FedExCup Fall and removes the Barracuda Championship in California, which had been played opposite the British Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Doral has been synonymous with PGA Tour golf since 1962, when it launched as the Doral Open. It became a World Golf Championship site in 2007 but struggled to sustain sponsorship after Trump\u2019s 2012 purchase of the property. The 2016 split was, in Finchem\u2019s words, pragmatic rather than political, though it coincided with Trump\u2019s polarizing rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PGA Tour will return to Donald Trump\u2019s Blue Monster course in Miami next spring, ending a decade-long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-357702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115057467368590129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}