Watching players and caddies getting sick and dropping out of the WGC in Mexico has a touch of irony behind it.

The course itself is a beautiful old school track lined with trees and offers a unique layout. Considering it’s high elevation (7300 FT) players are having to adjust due to the ball flying farther than usual. Located smack dab in the heart of Mexico City the course looks gorgeous…..the vistas of smog enveloped buildings surrounding the golf course….not so much.

The tournament was moved from Trump Doral, which Trump bought in 2012. The Doral was part of the Florida swing sandwiched between the Honda and the Valspar. It was convenient for the players and the tour as Valspar is 70 miles away from Doral the previous week. Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City is 2300 miles away.

In June 2016 the PGA chose to accept an offer from a Mexican conglomerate to play the WGC in Mexico City. Many perceived the move as a way to punish Trump for his comments earlier in the year about Mexicans and Muslims, the tour claims it could not get a sponsor for Trumps Doral tournament which is bullshit.

And, of course, there is the backdrop that can’t be ignored: Did the PGA Tour decide last spring to move the tournament from Trump International Doral because of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ownership of the resort?

“The people at Doral feel like they got caught in the middle,” said Joel Paige, a former vice president and managing director at Doral. “It wasn’t the venue. It wasn’t the community. It was the politics. The political thing was a lot more.

So enjoy the tournament, take note of the glowing reviews by the commentators, and remember the reason they are playing there is purely political. Tim Finchem, the PGA tour commissioner at the time, was an advisor for the Jimmy Carter administration.

Finchem served in the White House during the administration of Jimmy Carter as Deputy Advisor to the President in the Office of Economic Affairs in 1978 and 1979. In the early 1980s, Finchem co-founded the National Marketing and Strategies Group in Washington, D.C.

Any questions about why Trumps Doral lost the tournament?