By Dan Diamond and Rick Maese
THE TRUMP NATIONAL DORAL GOLF CLUB, Fla. — President Donald Trump was here Sunday, watching golfers compete to claim the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship. But the president had already won.
For a decade, the PGA Tour shunned Trump’s courses as his first presidential run unnerved sponsors. The PGA Tour even pulled one long-running event from Doral and moved it to Mexico City, after the tour and other corporations had publicly chastised Trump for his tirades about Mexicans. The moves bruised the president, who forged an alliance with the PGA Tour’s upstart rival, the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf, and urged top players to defect, too.
But in Trump’s second term, some institutions that once publicly opposed him have backed down. Even those that engaged in quieter resistance, such as the PGA Tour, have come to accommodate him. And now golf’s flagship tour, with the accompanying glitz and glamour, is back at his resort.
