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Former President Donald Trump will play LIV Golf alongside two of the sport’s biggest stars on Thursday at his course and club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
The former president, who has praised the Saudi-backed golf tour for disrupting the PGA, will compete alongside stars Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau.
The New York Post first reported:
Donald Trump is scheduled to attend this week’s LIV Golf Invitational at his Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, NJ. The former president will play Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson in Thursday’s pro-am before the first round, a tournament official confirmed to The Post.
That Trump is paired with DeChambeau and Johnson is no surprise. He has played with both of them before in South Florida. DeChambeau’s bag also used the Trump logo.
DeChambeau and Johnson defected from the PGA this summer for big cash offers.
The controversial upstart league led by Greg Norman and paid for by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund also managed to rule out Bubba Watson on Wednesday.
Trump has played with some of the best golfers in the world throughout his time in public life. While president, he played a round with Rory McIlroy.
The former president has come under fire in recent weeks for allowing LIV and Norman to use his courses.
The families of the Americans who died during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have asked him to distance himself from the league.
Trump recently ripped the PGA on TRUTH Social for being “disloyal” to players.
“All those golfers who remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all its various guises, will pay a heavy price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV arrives, and you get nothing but a big ‘thank you’ from the officials of the PGA. making millions of dollars a year,” he wrote.
The 2022 PGA Championship was to be held at the Trump Course in Bedminster. He was transferred to Tulsa, Oklahoma four days after the attack on the Capitol on January 6.
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