DORAL, Fla. – Before Donald Trump ever arrived at Doral last week, Adam Scott – the eventual WGC-Cadillac Championship winner – wistfully hoped that golf could stay above the political fray.
“Hopefully they don't intersect at all,” he said on Wednesday after being asked about the intersection of golf and politics. “Should be the beauty of sport.”
Scott did his part to maintain a separation of sport and state, closing with a gritty 69 for a one-stroke victory, but as a surreal Sunday unfolded it became increasingly clear that the game’s apolitical aspirations might not be possible.