The PGA of America has voted to cancel plans to hold the 2022 PGA Championship at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
The move comes days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol in an apparent bid to disrupt the certifying of electoral college votes ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's planned inauguration on January 20.
The PGA of America on Sunday voted to "terminate the agreement" it had with Trump Bedminster, according to President Jim Richerson.
The move was reported to be under consideration in recent days amid the fallout from the shocking overrunning of the Capitol buildings.
PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh told the Associated Press in an interview that the apparent Trump-encouraged insurrection made holding the tournament at Bedminster untenable.
“We find ourselves in a political situation not of our making,” Waugh said. “We’re fiduciaries for our members, for the game, for our mission and for our brand. And how do we best protect that? Our feeling was given the tragic events of Wednesday that we could no longer hold it at Bedminster. The damage could have been irreparable. The only real course of action was to leave.”
The Trump Organization said it was "incredibly disappointed," according to ABC News.
"We have had a beautiful partnership with the PGA of America and are incredibly disappointed with their decision," a spokesperson reportedly said.
"This is a breach of a binding contract and they have no right to terminate the agreement. As an organization we have invested many, many millions of dollars in the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster. We will continue to promote the game of golf on every level and remain focused on operating the finest golf courses anywhere in the world."
The reneging wasn't the first involving the golf body and Trump, the Associated Press reported.
In 2015, the roughly 29,000-member organization, which is mostly made up of instructors and other professionals who teach the game, called off the Grand Slam of Golf at a Trump-owned course in Los Angeles following his racist remarks about Mexicans upon launching his presidential campaign.
The PGA of America is the governing body of the annual PGA Championship, one of golf's four yearly major tournaments. It is a separate entity from the PGA Tour, which handles the day-to-day management and administration of tour events.
The agreement to hold the 2022 installment of the tournament at Bedminster was reached in 2014.