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Golf’s truce is a sham – LIV is happy to go it alone, Trump-style

Perhaps it was appropriate that, a day after President Trump announced his extraordinary tariff revolution, LIV Golf enthusiastically greeted him to this Doral resort that he owns and that, this weekend, will host the latest $25 million event.

DonaldTrumpwithIanPoulterattheTrump-ownedDoralcourseforLIVGolfMiamilastyear–AP/RebeccaBlackwellPerhapsitwasappropriatethat,adayafterPresidentTrumpannouncedhisextraordinarytariffrevolution,LIVGolfenthusiasticallygreetedhimtothisDoralresortthatheownsandthat,thisweekend,willhostthelatest$25millionevent. TrumplandedinhisMarineOnehelicopteronahelipadbytheninthfairwayonThursdayeveningandthemoodintheairwaspalpablythatofbelligerenceassignificantfiguresonthebreakawayleagueextolledtheirownideaofisolationismandgoingitontheirown. Ifthisistheweekforthebigstatement,thenLIVGolfisdeterminedtoprovethatithasthepotentialtobeahistorictriumphifandwhenthemooteddealwiththePGATourisfinallycalledoff. Andatthispoint–despiteTrumptellingreportersagainonThursdaynightthathewantsthetourstounite,sayi