After leaving Trump Property, P.G.A. Championship Lands in Oklahoma

The 2022 P.G.A. The championship, which was withdrawn from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ days after a mob at the instigation of the former president stormed the Capitol in a riot that resulted in the deaths of five people, has been awarded to the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma

The PGA of America, which is leading the tournament, one of four major men's golf championships worldwide, announced the new venue for the event in a brief statement Monday. The tournament will be played from 19 to 22 May next year.

For years, Donald Trump publicly lobbied each of the golf boards to donate one of the sport's featured championships to one of his golf courses. The Bedminster club hosted the 2017 United States Women's Open and its Virginia club was the site of the Senior P.G.A. Championship.

The P.G.A. of America chose Trump Bedminster to host the 2022 Championship in 2014, before Trump ran for president. But on Jan. 10, the organization's president, Jim Richerson, said in a video statement: “ It has become clear that leading the P.G.A. Championship with Trump Bedminster would be detrimental to the P.G.A. of the US brand, and would compromise the PGA's ability to carry out our many programs and sustain the life of our mission.

The next day, the chief executive of the R&A, the organization that runs the British Open, said the flagship event would not return "in the near future" to Trump Turnberry, a golf course in Scotland owned by Trump Turnberry, bought by Trump seven years ago, has hosted the British Open four times, the oldest of golf's four men's majors, most recently in 2009. It previously hosted the Women's Open in 2015.

Robert Wood Johnson IV, the US Ambassador to Britain during the Trump administration, told several colleagues in February 2018 that he had been asked if the British government could help Turnberry to restart the British Open. The British government and Trump both denied asking Johnson to push for such a move, said three people with knowledge of the episode.

Although the resort was not planned as the loc This year's event, it was under consideration for the British Open in 2023.

"We will not return until we are confident that the focus will be on the championship, the players and the course itself and we don't believe that is feasible in the current circumstances, ”said Martin Slumbers, the R&A CEO.

Southern Hills has been the setting for four previous PGA Championships, the last in 2007 when Tiger Woods won the tournament. The course also hosted three U.S. Opens from 1958 to 2001. Relocating the P.G.A. Championship to Oklahoma also locates a male major in a non-coastal environment. The U.S. This year's open is being contested near San Diego, while the P.G.A. The championship will be held on Kiawah Island along the South Carolina coastline.

"Excited to return to SHCC for the fifth time," said the P.G.A. of America wrote on its website Monday. "The course offers a tough but fair test for the strongest field in golf."

Southern Hills was designed in 1936 but underwent an $ 11 million restoration under the direction of noted golf course architect Gil Hanse two years ago