Donald Trump is firing back at LPGA commissioner Mike Whan after the tour issued a statement last week suggesting it would prefer the Ricoh Women’s British Open be played somewhere other than Trump Turnberry but that it was too late to make such a move with the event a little more than two weeks away.
The LPGA statement was a reaction to Trump’s controversial remarks about Mexico and illegal immigration.
In a letter from Trump to Whan, dated July 13, Trump takes the commissioner to task for his “nasty statement,” accuses him of lacking “common decency,” and provocatively offers to allow him to move the Women’s British Open to a new site on short notice despite “an absolutely binding contract.