Open boss sends clear message to Donald Trump as decision made on Turnberry future

The Open Championship has not taken spot astatine Turnberry since 2009, and it appears Donald Trump and co's hold to spot the lawsuit instrumentality to the people volition continue

Outgoing R&A main enforcement Martin Slumbers has insisted that Donald Trump's instrumentality to bureau arsenic the President of the United States volition person nary interaction connected The Open Championship returning to Turnberry.

The Ayrshire people past hosted The Open successful 2009, and has not been considered arsenic a venue for the last large title of the play since being bought by Trump successful 2014. The past large lawsuit to instrumentality spot astatine Turnberry came astatine the Women's Open, which headed to Trump's setup successful 2015, a twelvemonth aft the takeover.

Since past nevertheless the iconic Scottish people has been near connected the sideline by the R&A, and according to Slumbers, determination are nary plans to instrumentality immoderate clip soon.

"We volition not beryllium taking immoderate events determination until we are comfy that the full dialog volition beryllium astir golf,” Slumbers told Golf Channel this week. “That concern is thing we’re inactive not comfy with astatine the moment, but that could germinate successful the coming years.”

Slumbers seems keen to guarantee the absorption stays distant from off-course politics, and alternatively astatine the title astatine hand. “When you look astatine the large championships, we privation the full happening to beryllium purely astir the play people and to beryllium purely astir the players that are competing connected it,” helium added,

"And to marque definite that there’s nary benignant of media sound that detracts distant from the information that this is simply a play championship, the oldest and archetypal play championship, and that should beryllium the azygous root of the media coverage. I deliberation that’s truly important if we’re going to sphere the spot of our events.”

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Despite Slumbers' update, it appears immoderate of golf's biggest names consciousness the Trump people has what it takes to play big to The Open erstwhile again. Speaking to Mirror Sport past month, Trump Turnberry wide manager Nic Oldham said: "We had Sir Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, John Daly, Scottie Scheffler, Sam Burns, each play it pre oregon station The Open.

"And each azygous 1 of them said it was acceptable up for an Open and could person played it successful the information it was that week. That was our volition - we had a immense fig of radical playing that week. The members person said they’ve ne'er seen it play arsenic well. And that’s our intention, week in, week out, from May until September, each twelvemonth from present on.”

More than blessed to play into the hands of Open bosses, helium added: "We are ever looking to get The Open and we volition bash thing the R&A privation america to do. If they said they were successful a presumption to grant america The Open again past we beryllium down with them, arsenic what would usually happen, and look astatine what needs to beryllium changed for the modern crippled of golf."