The 2022 PGA Championship that was withdrawn from Trump National Golf Club In Bedminster, New Jersey, the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla, was awarded days after a former president-instigated mob stormed the Capitol in a riot that killed five people.
The PGA of America, which runs the tournament, one of the four major men’s golf championships worldwide, announced the new venue in a brief statement on Monday. The tournament will take place from May 19-22 next year.
For many years, Donald Trump had publicly engaged all governing bodies of golf to award one of his golf courses one of the sport’s featured championships. The Bedminster Club hosted the 2017 United States Women’s Open, and their Virginia club hosted the 2017 Senior PGA Championship.
The PGA of America selected Trump Bedminster to host the 2022 Championship in 2014 before Trump became a presidential candidate. On January 10, the organization’s president, Jim Richerson, said in a video statement: “It has become clear that holding the PGA Championship in Trump Bedminster would harm the PGA of America brand and compromise the capabilities of the PGA for ours deliver many programs and uphold the longevity of our mission. “
The next day, the executive director of R&A, the organization that runs the British Open, said its flagship wouldn’t go back to Trump Turnberry, a golf course in Scotland owned by Trump for “the foreseeable future”. Turnberry, which was bought by Trump seven years ago, hosted the British Open, the oldest of the four men’s golf majors, four times, most recently in 2009. Before that, it was the 2015 Women’s Open.
Robert Wood Johnson IV, the American ambassador to Great Britain during the Trump administration, announced this to several colleagues in February 2018 he had been asked to see if the UK government could help Turnberry host the British Open, said three people with knowledge of the episode. The UK government said Johnson had no request regarding the British Open and Trump denied Ask Johnson to press such a step.
While the resort wasn’t slated to host this year’s event, it was being considered for the 2023 British Open.
“We are not going to return until we are convinced that the focus will be on the championship, the players and the course itself, and we don’t think that is achievable in the current circumstances,” said Martin Slumbers, the R&A -Chief Executive Officer.
Southern Hills has hosted four previous PGA championships, the most recent in 2007 when Tiger Woods won The competition. From 1958 to 2001, three US Open took place there. With the relocation of the PGA championship to Oklahoma, a male major will also be settled in an offshore area. This year’s US Open will be held near San Diego, while the 2021 PGA Championship will take place on Kiawah Island along the coast of South Carolina.
“Excited to return to SHCC for the fifth time,” the PGA of America wrote on its website Monday. “The course offers a tough but fair test for the strongest field in golf.”
Southern Hills was designed in 1936 but was restored for $ 11 million under the direction of the noted golf course architect Gil Hanse two years ago.
