DORAL, Fla. — At 8:30 Tuesday morning, Raymond Corica stood behind the practice green at Doral’s Blue Monster holding a Sharpie pen and a photograph that he hoped to get signed. Autograph seekers converge on every PGA Tour stop bearing glossy prints for the players to sign, but this was different. The picture in Corica’s hand, taken at last year’s World Golf Championships event here, showed Corica standing next to Donald J. Trump, the Trump National Doral resort owner and unofficial tournament host.
“I’m going to come every day to try to get it autographed,” said Corica, who dressed with an eye toward improving his chances of being noticed by Trump, who exuded a magisterial presence during this tournament well before he became the front-runner for the G.