PGA Tour at Trump Doral, high‑profile absences and political scrutiny
The PGA Tour staged a signature tournament at Donald Trump's Doral resort in Miami this weekend, marking the league's return to a course it largely avoided for the past decade. Several high-profile players stayed away from the Doral event or nearby tournaments, including world No.1 Scottie Scheffler declining to play the Truist Championship despite its $20 million purse. The return drew renewed political scrutiny because Trump hosted at his own property and allies framed the event as a public relations and political win. That shift matters because it shows major sports institutions are accommodating Trump, with implications for sponsorships, player scheduling, and golf's political visibility.
These are the leaders of the tournament including the #1 player in the world on the green playing in the final round on Sunday at Trump’s golf course in Miami. I’ve seen bigger crowds at college tournaments and this is a PGA Tour signature event.
nycgeo96Trump is extremely unpopular and anything associated with him is radioactive.
bombaycrone.bsky.social65On Sunday people have to pay to get in to watch the play. That means money goes into Trump's pocket directly. Maybe people are starting to get tired of financing a pedophile.
Netty Bo Betty64Whoever wins the event, better hold onto their trophy. I wouldn’t put it past Trump to show up Sunday and steal the trophy from the winner.🏆
ricksmichel.bsky.social41Not only am I happy about this, because of what I know about turf, course looks like shit.
It’s Too Early For This 23Is this a decent course? Is that what a good course looks like at this time of the year? I mean the condition of the turf
Liberal Donald J. Trump21Final round, Sunday, “best players in the world”—and it looks like a dentist’s waiting room. At a Taco Trump course! You couldn’t draw a crowd with FREE tickets and fireworks. The PGA deserves packed fairways—this is empty, embarrassing, and frankly more than a little sad. TREMENDOUSLY SAD!
itmightbme.bsky.social19I love it when people protest with their pocketbooks and boycott what they disagree with. Maybe the PGA will notice a little? And some of the sponsors, although the sponsors are all rich corporations who support Trump.
TeamsterBob16Are you certain it’s not due to the windmills?
Julie Langston14Nobody wants to be in the line of fire. It should be in a ballroom for safety.
rpetri89.bsky.social11Makes no sense, looks like a LIV crowd.
Jack11I'm a golf fan but refuses to watch or read about this event. They can all gft.
VernBob8It couldn't happen to a nicer tournament. 😠
Snarky McSnarkerson7I don’t know much about golf but that course looks like shit.
🐸🖕🐸 Heartless Creatures7Looks like they're not even bothering with the QUIET PLEASE signs.
Chevron6What... Like pro golfing wasn't enough? Trump's giant golden statue wasn't enough? What's wrong with people? The tickets were only $150-$2,000 (which is a bargain IMO) SMH people need to wake up
Sarnold🏳️🌈6I love this. Embarrassing for Trump
Jerry6If breaks my heart that this many people showed up.
Clever Display Name6What are the odds the PGA severs ties with Trump due to revenue loss? It would be terrific but in all probability won’t happen.
Len6Every legitimate business he touches turns to 💩
The Best Captain6Worried about assassins? Kinda feel bad for the Secret Service.
Freestatefemale5I don't watch golf so is that grass not in good condition?
Tomsomething5Glad to not watch today.
Blue Woman Voting 📎5They can shove their golf clubs where the sun doesn't shine. Trying to say that less vulgar than I want to.
bluewhaleshit.bsky.social5That's a multi million dollar loss to the club and guess what the bottom rung employees are going to be let go because of it. All the near by restaurants that stocked up are fucked too! Yet Maga will say biggest crowd and most money earned at a PGA event ever! Imagine paying those sponsorship fees!
Rodger Sellers5Everywhere the orange turd goes, he poisons the atmosphere, water, and general all-around reality. Why should this be any different?
Cath RN, PhD5I’ve seen bigger crowds at miniature golf.
Jay Rocheleau 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦🚴🏻🦅5Thanks for this because i won’t watch it.
SeattleBlueGull5People choose to spend their money, or not. The tournament sponsors should take note.
Pamela in CA5There was a bigger gallery at my high school state golf championship😬
Richie Newport5Trump ruins anything he is associated with.
Lisa4That's his 34% approval cult crowd
Tim Murphy4I noticed that too. Doral would have been packed for this tournament in the before times. #ETTD
David Hardie4But it's not about the crowds, it's about the TV rights, etc.
TrumpIsTheEnemy 🐸🏳🌈🇺🇦#FDJT #DC514those are probably White House staffers ordered to be there
Pretti Good Ferrerman4The grass looks awful! They should consider painting it.
Mike Horan3I like to watch golf but not this weekend.
bonniegriffith2.bsky.social3I've seen bigger family reunions. 😜
Miguelito3Fuck MAGA, Fuck Trump, Fuck the PGA.
Scott3May his next stroke be MASSIVE.
Terry Blumenstein3Noticed on Sky Sports and a segment on Checo Perez playing golf at Doral and they referred to it as “Doral” and did not use Trump’s name and the course as as The Blue Monster, it’s true name.
Byline Withheld3What are you talking about? I just hear Sean Spicer report on it, and he said: "This was the largest audience to ever witness a golf tournament—period—both in person and around the globe." /s
Larry “I Mostly Just Reply So Read’em” Alberts3Personally I don't think it says much for the PGA players who participate in this event because of the trump involvement. At the same time, the tour is likely filled with MAGA/trumpers.
Douglas Blake 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇺🇳⚾🌊🌈 #GVerse3They had more extras during the filming of Caddyshack!
musk-family-ftms.bsky.social3Are they being paid to attend?
Darla Krusee3The *first day* (a Thursday) of The Standard Portland Classic LPGA tournament had a bigger crowd than that. I know, I was there.
HoneyBearKelly 🇨🇺🇪🇺3They didn't have to be there.
Jim McWilliams3Since this is the “Golden Age,” I’m sure people can afford to attend—so the sparse crowd must be for another reason. Maybe rain in the forecast? That has to be it, yes?
Moriah2I’ve seen bigger crowds for a 3rd rate whiffle ball game for 10 year olds in a backwoods rural town. #ETTD
Julie Bee🐝🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸2Under 300 at that hole
Kim Heine2Just tickles me, trump so deserves this!
Ron, Thank you for posting this as I sometimes watch the PGA Sunday Day 4 round depending. Because of the PGA's decision to return to Doral this year, I did not read about watch or talk about Doral during a round with Golf buddies on Friday. I am considering abandoning watching the PGA going forward
Mark K Samuels2I noticed that yesterday. The crowd was very small. Like Trump’s hands.
Renae Freedom2The Saudi's are out, so there's that....
tbonek.bsky.social2Heard after Thursdays dismal attendance they started paying people to attend.
I’m Blue Da Ba Dee Da Da2Miami Grand Prix was sold out today.
Just Howlin' not Wolf2Christ man, I’ve seen bigger crowds at the opening of a Sport Clips
workishell.bsky.social2He'll somehow blame Biden or Obama for the whole thing. I love watching them all twist themselves into knots trying to justify things.
JeanSand - Keeping It Real2No matter how much trump tries to act like the PGA is a success, it's an epic failure. He can't play in my face.
Emily Blue2Besides hating Trump and boycotting… Maybe these are the only people who can afford to go?
Dr. Keith Burton2Same number of people waiting in front of a Springsteen arena show. A DAY BEFORE.
Sue dragon2It looks like a family only event.
okguy.bsky.social2The warning signs are everywhere for the Trump administration…….. Per source: The White House says “they have plans to address this”.
Fred Hager2I'm sure it's very secure at Doral and Iran does not know that fatass Trump is spending the day there.
jccro.bsky.social2To be fair - it was delayed because of storms passing through
Michel Sauvé2As he would say "overwhelmingly large crowd, like never seen before" 😬
davelynx.bsky.social2Looks like a municipal golf course 😂🤣
avanleur.bsky.social2I've been to bigger weddings.
Slowride8052I haven’t even tuned in because it’s at one of the grifting pedophiles courses. Fuck that orange degenerate! I turned of the tv when he was shown at the Ryder Cup. DeSHAMbeau is such a pedo nut sucker. And fuck McIlroy. Upon learning he’s chummy with the pedophile I lost all respect.
Robert Gooch2Glad Rory bailed! Did they have to recruit players from LIV?
Ron Dorland ©️🇺🇸🇺🇦2There's a tweet for that: #ETTD
EJR2Yup .. ! Has tRump's signature all over it ..
JulieD2BOYCOTT ANYTHING RELATED TO TRUMP!!!
Sabai2I quit watching golf. I cannot stomach watching a bunch of rich white boys who vote for Tramp. I still play golf, but don't watch it.
ptpdrhirosru2Disappointed that anyone showed up!
Rick O'Shea2Like pro golfers can't take a weekend off from playing in the Trump Pedophile PGA event? Can't afford not to be a sycophantic fukwit? Nice optics.
plantnut.bsky.social2DDT drives people away. IMO he couldn’t pay people (excluding maga), enough to show up.
wildweasel2026.bsky.social2I've seen bigger crowds in a phone booth.
aka Uncle Cracker2I LOVE THIS FOR HIM
So, there is bad weather in Doral, FL this morning and the Golf Channel replaying yesterday’s golf. U have to go to CBS Sports paywall channel to watch. It’s amazing that there are only a few spectators are there for President Childfucker’s golf course they expect me to pay. Fuck CBS. PGA failed.
MrWheat5I like that new nickname. Every time he should be referred to as "President Childfucker"
SrfrG4Mass Media has failed us. They created the orange monster. MM enabled the plague of MAGA fleas to suck the blood of the American people. Mass Media has failed the American people and the rest of the world, and no one believes anything they say any more because their integrity is gone. FAILED!
JoeKnows3I won't even give them ratings by watching this tournament and I am a big golf fan. I just watched the leaderboard online now and then. Fuck Trump.
RedMaple23242Well and truly said: “President Childfucker”.
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Transitional Fossil10he has ruined everything he's touched, all his life.
Progressive senior8Trump ruins everything he touches
Crazy Ol' Hippie 🇺🇲❤️🇺🇦7If trump is in the same ZIP CODE, anything related to trump is shit.
anomie501.bsky.social7Funny how there is more security at a PGA event than the White House press association dinner that had most of the cabinet in attendance.
Nathaniel Sebastian James5Trump to make a speech saying, "I could have been a golfer you know, I'd be better than all these folders here, I am now actually, I'm way better than my good friend Rory and he's the best, the second best if I play"
stopdropendfascism.bsky.social3PGA Tour Pedophile Golf Association. That pedo is Satan
TheMeanstroke3lol “accused”? The fucking sack of fetid sun baked dog shit ruins everything. It’s his entire thing.
Drj2Everything the orange idiot touches turns to shit! And if you are leaching off of him you’re just as bad!
JstReveln2Imho anyone who shows up to do anything at one of his events or properties is of questionable moral character, at the very least. Your presence not only makes him money, it validates him, which is far worse in my book. The people you choose to spend your time with says everything about you
megidd.bsky.social2This orange felon destroys everything he touches, look at his 6 bankruptcies
Paul2I've seen bigger crowds at high school tournaments.
evryv0t3.bsky.social2The Orange Pus Sack shouldn't be on an open course with fans. Thought it was tooooooooooooooooooo dangerous for him to be outside of the WH. He's so full of BS.
Djt Doral tournament PGA tour, Literally, no one showed up. Not 5. 0. Some golfers didn't show up either
Allen Kibler13I had to just tune in for a bit and see - it’s true - the place is empty! I’ve seen high school golf matches with more gallery. I love for the PGA, CBS and the big ol dumbass we all despise. Well done Americans ! Well done!
russellmania50.bsky.social7I can’t believe the PGA went there. Just as they previously feared, he’ll be there tomorrow, at the end, to try to steal the show. I won’t be watching.
wrestlingdad1975.bsky.social5Trump is already throwing a temper tantrum
EllisonX4I won't watch or listen to anything associated with that fat pedophile in the white house
qtipsanon.bsky.social3QtipsANON. 'Djt Doral tournament PGA tour...' Then the fireworks began!
Buff Bobby G2And today the TV audience will skip it as well
EmTeeE2It sounds like Prince Bonesaw won’t be showing dickie donnie any luv on the green or with the green, so I guess he’ll be left between a water hazard and a rough place. At least he has his 15 foot statue of Kim to luv on.
For a decade, the PGA Tour shunned President Trump’s golf courses. But in his second term, some institutions that once publicly opposed him have backed down. Even those that engaged in quieter resistance have come to accommodate him.
Jane Austen's Political Tweets7And as Trump sundowns into dementia-related pyschosis, becoming even more openly corrupt and criminal, any organization that takes steps to align itself with Trump will make themselves a pariah....
emilfaber.bsky.social3Attendance at Doral has sucked all weekend. Scheffler has a few hundred people following but the rest are playing in front of friends and family.
Karen Smit2They are afraid of how Trump & his cabinet will hurt them!
Anna Busy Bee2Do you realize how corrupt this all is? Imagine Obama or Biden becoming a multi billionaire during the first year of their presidencies and hosting sports events at their private clubs. US media would not stop criticizing them. But Trump: all fine.
