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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 10:23 AM Jul 2017

Holding the U.S. Womens Open at a Trump property puts golfers in an impossible position A spineless

Honestly, there is no way to depoliticize an event held at a golf course owned by the family of the current President of the United States.
But that’s not stopping the players and officials at this week’s U.S. Women’s Open, which is being held at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, from trying their hardest.

“I’m not into politics at all. I’m really just all golf. That’s all I focus on and I’m just going to focus on my play this week,” 22-year-old Lexi Thompson, currently the №3 women’s golfer in the world, told reporters at the introductory press conference on Tuesday when asked about the U.S. Golf Association’s (USGA) decision to keep the marquee women’s golf tournament of the season at Trump National.


https://thinkprogress.org/us-womens-open-trump-eb7375c2cd94


They were given a chance to move this show and they did not..................

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