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While the decision to keep Trump away from the claret jug was being taken in Scotland, the PGA Tour said on the weekend that it had similar misgivings about its relationship with Trump. It said it would look to move the high-profile Cadillac Championship, one of four annual World Golf Championship events, from his Doral resort after this coming season. The Tour said in a statement that it would keep the 2016 tournament at the Miami-area course — logistics would have made it difficult to relocate on short notice anyway — but that immediately following its completion “we will explore all options regarding the event’s future.” It said Trump’s comments are “inconsistent with our strong commitment to an inclusive and welcoming environment in the game of golf.”

You don’t say. And, since Trump seems to be wholly incapable of ever walking back a comment, or conceding that he has ever said anything that maybe deserves a second thought, it’s unlikely he’s going to embark on a fence-mending exhibition now that the golf world has its back up.

But this is definitely something that could hit him where it hurts — in his ego. Whatever happens in his bid for the White House, Trump will eventually return to being a private citizen. He clearly revels in having the golf world turn up at his door. Just last year, he posed all smiles next to the Wanamaker Trophy as the PGA of America announced that it had awarded the 2022 PGA Championship to the Trump National course in New Jersey and the 2017 Senior PGA Championship to the Trump course near Washington, D.C. Trump said it was a “great honour” to be associated with the PGA of America, “an organization which I have long respected.” One wonders what he will say if it, too, has second thoughts about partnering with a man who probably isn’t done saying inflammatory things in his presidential run.