“Golf Should Dump Trump—And Do It Now”
/That’s Global Golf Post editor Mike Purkey’s take in this week’s issue, taking an unusually strong stance for the normally conservative publication. Purkey is suggesting golf’s governing bodies get out of their contracts with Trump owned courses because Trump “deserves to lose his seat at the table of world golf.”
Meanwhile Gawker has compiled a list of lost business for Trump, which now includes ESPN after the Worldwide Leader became the second charity fundraiser to leave Trump National Los Angeles.
We talked Trump on Morning Drive and as I note late in the interview with Gary Williams, the impact this is having on Trump's children, who have worked hard to build the family golf business behind the scenes, has to be profound.
**Derek Lawrenson in the Daily Mail sees issues for Trump in Scotland as well.
The Scottish Open is part-funded by the Scottish Executive. Even if the European Tour were foolhardy enough to think about going to Trump International, could you see it getting past the desk of the formidable First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon?
And then there's Turnberry. In a recent interview for Fortune magazine, Trump criticised plans to make the game more inclusive, proclaiming: 'Let golf be elitist. Let people work hard and aspire to some day be able to play golf. To afford to play it.'
Over the past two years or so, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club have done a nice job in moving forward from being perceived as elitist and sexist for so many decades. So how could they even think of flying in the face of that progress by awarding their most prized jewel to a course owned by a man who clearly revels in being both prejudiced and elitist?
