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PGA Tour Yanks World Golf Championship From Trump’s Course, Deports It To Mexico

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Christian Datoc Senior White House Correspondent
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The PGA Tour will reportedly announce plans Wednesday to relocate the WGC-Cadillac Championship from its current home at Trump National Doral.

According to ESPN, the PGA plans to move the 2017 tournament — one of four World Golf Championship events — to Mexico after Cadillac declined to renew its sponsorship.

“[The PGA had] an obligation to their board and they couldn’t find a sponsor,” tournament chairman Butch Buchholz said of the move. “They don’t have a choice.”

Trump teased the move during a Tuesday interview on Fox News.

“I just heard that the PGA Tour is taking their tournament out of Miami and moving it to Mexico,” the presumptive Republican nominee stated. “It’s at Doral … but they’re moving it to Mexico.”

“I hope they have kidnapping insurance,” he added.

Doral has hosted a major PGA event every year since the course was established in 1962.

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