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PGA Tour player has plan for Donald Trump to fight back against PGA of America moving PGA Championship

PGA Tour player Grayson Murray has a plan for Donald Trump to fight back against the PGA of America moving the 2022 PGA Championship.

At 10:01 p.m. ET on Sunday night, the PGA of America made the announcement that the 2022 PGA Championship would no longer be hosted at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The late-night news came just days after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters clashed with police, broke into the United States Capitol and swept through the halls of Congress, ultimately leading to the deaths of five people, including a Capitol police officer.

On Monday morning, the R&A announced it had no plans to host a British Open at Trump Turnberry in Scotland.

As the golf world begins to distance itself from the outgoing president, one PGA Tour player has a plan for Trump to fight back.

Murray, 27, won the 2017 Barbasol Championship but has otherwise struggled early in his PGA Tour career. The North Carolina native is currently 565th in the Official World Golf Ranking and has made just two cuts in his last ten starts.

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Grayson Murray to miss 3M Open after positive COVID test

Grayson Murray announced that he’s been forced to pull out of this week’s PGA Tour event due to a positive test result for COVID-19.

Grayson Murray announced via social media that he’s been forced to pull out of this week’s PGA Tour event in Minnesota due to a positive test result for COVID-19.

On his Instagram account, Murray said he was scheduled to leave for the 3M Open, but didn’t feel well and got tested for the virus.

The Raleigh, North Carolina, native has one win on the PGA Tour — the 2017 Barbasol Championship — and has played in a trio of events since the return to golf, missing a pair of cuts and withdrawing from another event due to a back problem.

Two people – a caddie on the PGA Tour and a player on the Korn Ferry Tour – tested positive for the coronavirus last week, but the pro golf world has seen a low percentage of participants test positive. Murray’s positive test marks the seventh for a PGA Tour player.

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“You don’t want to have any, but I think as you look at where we are and the trends for our overall program, and again, the tightening that we’ve done, I think that the results are very good, and we’re certainly encouraged by that. We’re proud of that,” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said last week. “I think our players deserve a ton of credit for not only what they’re doing here on-site in terms of social distancing and masking and being entirely aware of what we need to do when we’re on property, but also as I’ve gone market to market seeing players in hotels and other places, I think we’re executing a plan that we set out, and we’re confident that if we continue to do that we’re going to be in a really good place as we go forward.”

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Grayson Murray goes wild after Honda Classic hole-in-one

Grayson Murray made a hole-in-one at the par-3 17th hole at PGA National in the third round of the Honda Classic.

When Grayson Murray made a hole-in-one at the par 13-17th at PGA National on Saturday, he followed it up with no less than five fist pumps, the final one complete with a cap toss. The 26-year-old had all the reason in the world to celebrate considering that precious few aces go down there. No. 17, playing 151 yards in the third round, marks the end of the infamous Bear Trap, one of the most daunting stretches in golf.

Interestingly, second-round leader Brendan Steele horse-shoed his tee shot around the hole at the 179-yard 15th hole on Friday. Murray’s shot at No. 17 on Saturday, however, took two hops and rolled right in.

Murray is the second young player to log a hole-in-one at the Honda Classic this week. Matthew NeSmith, also 26, holed out at the par-3 fifth on Thursday.

Murray’s ace marks the 25th on the PGA Tour so far this season. It is his fourth hole-in-one on the PGA Tour.

Murray finished the third round with an even-par 70. His round included two birdies in addition to the ace, but also a bogey and a triple-bogey at the par-4 fourth. At 1 over, Murray was tied for 27th by the time he finished his round mid-day.

Murray hails from Raleigh, North Carolina, and played college golf for Arizona State. His sole PGA Tour victory came at the 2017 Barbasol Championship.

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