Alan Shipnuck

But signs were there.

But ultimately, we're never going to know what they could have done in five more years because that's asking for a tremendous amount of patience and a tremendous amount of capital.

And that's just not how the world works.

You can't game plan a war in your backyard like has happened to the Saudis.

You don't know what's going to happen in the next presidential election.

And no one in today's world has 10 years.

One of the few times golf as an institution ever showed any backbone was when the PGA of America pulled the PGA Championship from Trump bed minister.

It was in reaction to some of the inflammatory rhetoric of the presidential campaign.

And the PGA Tour repudiated Trump.

They took away his event at Doral.

sent it across the wall to Mexico City.

The LPGA and Trump had been longtime partners.

That ended.

The British Open has famously repudiated Trump and refused to bring the Open Championship to Trump Turnberry.

Golf means more to Trump than any of us can ever imagine because he's always found a way to buy himself into the highest echelons of society.

The one thing you cannot do is buy your way into the great old clubs of America.

So he was never allowed to become a member at Augusta National or Pine Valley.

And you can buy the biggest, ugliest house in Florida in Mar-a-Lago, but you can't buy your way into Seminole Golf Club.

And this burned Trump to the core that golf had always turned its back on him.

And so he had to create this whole empire of his own clubs in his image with the tacky waterfalls and the Roman columns and all that stuff.