PGA Tour Moving Event from Miami’s Trump Doral Resort to Mexico City

The PGA Tour is expected to officially announce Wednesday that its annual event at the Trump Doral Resort in Miami will move to Mexico City in 2017, according to Bob Harig of ESPN.com, citing a report from the Miami Herald on Tuesday. 

The WGC-Cadillac Championship was played at Doral in March, though Harig reported that “Cadillac did not renew its sponsorship of the World Golf Championship event and the PGA Tour had been in the process of trying to find a replacement.”

“I believe they are sincere when they said they didn’t want to leave an event with a 54-year history,” WGC-Cadillac Championship chairman Butch Buchholz told Barry Jackson and David J. Neal of the Miami Herald. “They’ve got an obligation to their board and they couldn’t find a sponsor so they had to move. They don’t have a choice. The PGA Tour didn’t have a choice. If you don’t have a sponsor what can you do?”

Resort owner and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump …

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