Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course is likely to be stripped of a major tournament on the 2022 PGA Tour calendar in the last fall of Wednesday’s Capitol riot.
The decision to withdraw the 2022 PGA Championship – one of the sport’s biggest tournaments – has yet to be announced.
But Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch believes the decision is likely to come after Trump leaves office.
“The chances that the ’22 PGA championship will happen as scheduled in New Jersey are almost as good as the chances that you or I will win it,” Lynch wrote on Saturday, clearly ironic.
Trump National Golf Club (pictured) is in danger of missing out on a major golf tournament
The Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey, was created to host a major tournament in 2022
A Golfweek report suggests that the 2022 PGA Championship will be played elsewhere
‘Seth Waugh, the CEO of PGA of America, was a banker and has an eye for high-risk exposure. He knows that Trumpism is likely to be an equally incendiary force in the mid-term elections of 22 and that any affiliation is poisonous.
‘Waugh will be forced to move the event and face a small but vocal faction of his members who remain loyal.’
Lynch also suggested that the decision could come after Joe Biden took office, writing ‘worries will be gone in 10 days, if not earlier’.
The PGA has been debating the championship for some time.
Thursday, golfer Gary Player was awarded the Trump Presidential Medal of Freedom
Trump also awarded the Medal of Freedom to Annika Sorenstam and Babe Zaharias
“Changing his Trump National major has been debated internally in the PGA for more than two years, but executives have been reluctant to harass a notoriously vindictive man who controls the Internal Revenue Service.” Lynch wrote.
The 2022 PGA Championship was set to be the first major men’s tournament to take place at the Trump National Golf Club.
The US Women’s Open took place there in 2017, won by South Korean Park Sung-hyun.
The Freedom Medal award came just a day after Wednesday’s Capitol riots
The Capitol uprising is linked to the deaths of at least five people so far
Photographed: Rioter Richard Barnett at Nancy Pelosi’s US Capitol office
Golf has always been Trump’s favorite sport, or at least the sport he has been most connected with over the years.
The president owns at least 17 golf clubs worldwide, including several in Florida.
Trump warned Barack Obama for the amount of time the former president spent playing golf, but GNN estimates that Trump has played golf at least 308 times during his presidency.
The day after the Capitol riots, Trump actually awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to three golfers: Annika Sorenstam, Gary Player and the late Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
The possible removal of one of Trump National’s biggest golf tournaments is the latest in a line of responses after Trump helped incite Wednesday’s riot that is connected to at least five deaths.
Some fans of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York are calling for Trump to be digitally removed from his role in the film.
‘I will not rest until he is removed from that scene in Home Alone 2,’ wrote Matt Navarra on Twitter.
Out of here: ‘I won’t rest until he’s removed from that scene in Home Alone 2’, wrote Matt Navarra on Twitter
Foreign leaders, national leaders and diplomats are also condemning the president, who has since been banned from using most social media sites indefinitely.
“Failing to publicly charge the president would further damage our democracy and our ability to effectively fulfill our foreign policy objectives abroad,” a diplomat cable told the State Department, according to the Associated Press.
Other riot-related cancellations include Simon & Schuster canceling Senator Josh Hawley’s planned book and Apple and Amazon removing the Parler social media app from their platforms.
One of the remaining consequences that may be underway is the removal of Trump from office.
The 25th Amendment does not seem likely to be invoked, but House Democrats are aiming for an impeachment vote this week.
Biden’s inauguration is scheduled for January 20.