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NANCY ARMOUR
PGA Championship

PGA of America stood up for country by moving PGA Championship to Southern Hills | Opinion

This week's PGA Championship was stripped from Trump Bedminster after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Nancy Armour
USA TODAY

Seth Waugh and the PGA of America showed more courage than many of the politicians in this country. Did more to defend our democracy, too.

It’s largely been forgotten, but this week’s PGA Championship at Southern Hills was originally supposed to be at Trump Bedminster. Four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, however, the PGA voted to strip Bedminster of the major, saying holding it at a course owned by Donald Trump could cause irreparable damage.

Little could they have known.

In the 16 months since then, Republican politicians and far-right pundits who know better but are too scared to run afoul of the former president have echoed his lies that the 2020 election was stolen. There is absolutely zero evidence to back up Trump’s claims; to the contrary, dozens upon dozens of recounts, investigations and court cases found no evidence of fraud or shadiness.