The Tour has a 7-year agreement through 2023 with Group Salinas, a collection of companies based in Mexico City primarily involved in retail, television and telecommunications, to run the event.
Advertisement
The irony plays out as PGA tour commissioner Tim Finchem claims the move has nothing to do with politics but everything to do with money. The golf tournament will be renamed the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship starting next year.
He linked the move to decisions by some US companies to move jobs to Mexico. “When when you are asking [a sponsor] to invest millions of dollars in branding a tournament and they’re going to share that brand with a host, it’s a hard conversation”, Finchem said at press conference on Wednesday.
Trump, as he runs for presidency of the United States, has angered many people with his polarizing words on the campaign trail, including his promise to build a wall on the U.S. Donald Trump is losing business to Mexico, a prestigious golf tournament at his resort at Doral. But the deal included an out clause should the Tour be unable to secure a title sponsor for the event, and Cadillac’s sponsorship of the event concluded this year, according to The Golf Channel. “Both have been a staple on the PGA Tour schedule, as well as my own, since my rookie year in 1962”.
Although PGA Tour claims the decision came down mostly to finances and the opportunity to expose golf to a new worldwide market, Commissioner Tim Finchem acknowledged politics was partly behind the move. “They’ve got an obligation to their board and they couldn’t find a sponsor so they had to move”.
The PGA Tour just put one in the rough, with a decision to move a World Golf Championships event from Donald Trump’s Doral resort in Florida to Mexico City – handing the GOP presidential candidate a hole-in-one talking point.
Fox said in an interview with WABC-AM host Rita Cosby that he would be willing to travel to the United States to debate the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, provided that Trump actually paid attention. “It’s at Doral. they used one of my places”. The PGA, however, clarified that the move was not a political decision but for want of sponsors.
Advertisement
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox took to Twitter to mock Donald Trump, saying: “You’re a loser, and you don’t know how to lose”.
