US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reacted in anger to the news that a leading golf tournament would be moved from his golf course in Florida to Mexico.
The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) made the decision to move the 2017 World Golf Championship, saying that it could not find the sponsors necessary to hold the the tournament at Trump’s Doral course in Miami.
The presidential hopeful said the PGA had “put profit ahead of thousands of American jobs”.
Commissioner of the PGA Tour, Timothy Finchem said that: “some of the reaction revolves around the feeling that somehow this is a political exercise, and it is not that in any way, shape or form. It is fundamentally a sponsorship issue.”
“We are a conservative organization. We value dollars for our players… we make decisions that are in the best interest of our players, short-term and long-term”, he continued.
Trump has been renowned for his outlandish comments about Mexicans during the campaign, stating
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