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features a $2 million purse and is also partnered with LIV the PGA Championship in 2022 until it was stripped of
Golf. Centurion held the inaugural Aramco Team Series the major on January 10, 2021, days after a mob fatally
London event in 2021 and will do the same in 2022, June stormed the U.S. Capitol.
16-18. Golf Saudi backs the Aramco Team Series which “We find ourselves in a political situation not of our
operates on the Ladies European Tour. making,” Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America.
“We’re fiduciaries for our members, for the game, for
July 1-3: Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club our mission and for our brand. And how do we best
Location: North Plains, Oregon. protect that? Our feeling was given the tragic events of
Brief history: The club opened in April of 1992 and Wednesday that we could no longer hold it at Bedminster.
has played host to numerous events over the years, The damage could have been irreparable. The only real
most notably the U.S. Women’s Open in 1997 and 2003 course of action was to leave.”
as well as the 1996 U.S. Amateur—when Tiger Woods
claimed an unprecedented third straight U.S. Amateur Sept 2-4: The International
Championship—and the 2006 U.S. Women’s Amateur. Location: Bolton, Massachusetts.
Pumpkin Ridge has also hosted the LPGA’s Safeway Brief history: The club has two courses, the Oaks and
Classic from 2009–2012 and has held the Korn Ferry Pines, with the latter hosting the New England Open
Tour’s WinCo Foods Portland Open annually since 2014. in 2002 and 2004. Escalante Golf, “a boutique owner
and operator of numerous properties across the United
July 29-31: Trump National Golf Club States,” acquired The International out of bankruptcy in
Bedminster February 2021 according to the club’s site. Escalante also
Location: Bedminster, New Jersey. owns Pumpkin Ridge.
Brief history: The club opened in 2004 and hosted the
U.S. Women’s Open in 2017 and was scheduled to host Sept 16-18: Rich Harvest Farms

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