Business magnate Donald Trump has offered LPGA commissioner Mike Whan a chance to relocate the upcoming Ricoh Women’s British Open from Trump Turnberry in Scotland.
In a three-page letter dated July 13 and addressed to Whan at the LPGA’s headquarters in Daytona Beach, Fla., Trump said he is willing to allow the July 30-Aug. 2 event to move after he took offense at Whan’s response to Trump’s recent presidential declaration.
In his June 16 bid for the Republican nomination for president, Trump assailed U.S. border security and made derogatory comments toward Mexican illegal immigrants. In response to Trump’s subsequent comments about the golf industry “knowing he is right,” the LPGA joined golf’s main governing bodies and tours in the U.