Please join us in a campaign to pressure the USGA and the PGA of America to sever their existing ties with Donald Trump and to cease holding major championships at his golf properties. We also urge the PGA Tour and the LPGA not to enter new partnerships with Donald Trump and his enterprises. Trump’s hateful rhetoric and exclusionary policy proposals are divisive and dangerous. Despite professed disagreement with his abhorrent views and statements, these leading golf institutions have continued doing business with him, and as such, they reward him materially and give him undeserved legitimacy.
Of particular concern is the U. S. Women’s Open (a major championship of the USGA) scheduled for Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (NJ) in July 2017. Considering Trump’s public denigration and demeaning of women, the choice of site is unjustifiable on moral and ethical grounds. The same applies to his negative characterizations of people of certain ethnic and religious groups. Women’s professional golf is highly international and represented by players of all manner of ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.
The PGA of America is committed to hosting two major championships at Trump golf properties. The first is the 2017 PGA Senior Championship at Trump National Golf Club DC and the second is the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. Both events are expected to attract significant international representation.
By signing below you will help us in our fight against bigotry, especially in the great game of golf. We also encourage you to reach out to the organizations listed below and make your personal feelings known. Repeated attempts at private and quiet persuasion to some have failed. Your loud and clear voices can make a difference and so can your actions.
Please direct your personal support of this campaign by SIGNING THE PETITION HERE along with addressing your letters to:
• Executive Director, United States Golf Association, 77 Liberty Corner Road, Far Hills, NJ 07931
• Executive Director, Professional Golfers Association of America, 100 Avenue of the Champions, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
• Commissioner, PGA Tour, 100 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
• Commissioner, Ladies Professional Golf Association, 100 International Golf Drive, Daytona Beach, FL 32124-1092
Organized by “Golfers Opposing Bigotry”
Campaign Coordinators:
Jeffrey T. Sammons
Professor of History New York University and Former Member of USGA Museum and Library Committee and its African American Golf Archive.
Calvin H. Sinnette, MD
Author of Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf and Former Member of the USGA African American Golf Archive.
Cedrick Smith, MD
Inaugural Howard Creel Fellow of the USGA, two-time NMGCA All-America golfer at Hampton University and Golf Coaches of America Academic All-American in the early 1990s.
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(Disclaimer: African American Golfer’s Digest has not endorsed any of the candidates running for president of the Unites States. The above post is for news and entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as an endorsement or non-endorsement of neither candidates. Therefore we are not encouraging or discouraging anyone from participating in the above petition.)
