Trump PGA Still "Scheduled" For '22; Women's PGA To Chicago

The PGA of America held their annual state of the PGA gathering prior to the start of the 2015 championship at Whistling Straits.

Besides revealing a two-for-one KPMG LPGA Championship in Chicago (Olympia Fields 2017, Kemper Lakes 2018), CEO Pete Bevacqua practically gushed over Fields, making it sound like a future PGA Championship venue.

Q. Do you see Olympia Fields as a potential future venue for a PGA Championship, a Senior PGA Championship?

PETE BEVACQUA: I would tell you and obviously Kerry jump in, we have had and continue to have a wonderful relationship with Olympia Fields and we look forward to conducting this championship. And it's our goal to really keep that strong relationship with this unbelievable club going well into the future. We think it's a relationship the PGA of America will have with championships for the next half century.

As for Donald Trump's first PGA in 2022, the event is still on for now even as the Grand Slam of Golf at Trump National LA is off (with no venue selected).

Q. One of the nice touches both here in the media center and all across the golf course was the banners that fly for the future PGA Championship venues. But there seems to be an omission, you made an announcement awhile ago that Trump Bedminster was going to host a PGA Championship in 2022 but as we are here, there isn't a single banner either in the media center or on the grounds that indicates Trump Bedminster is going to be hosting it. Has there been a reconsideration, are there discussions going on, what are we to make of the absence of the Trump Bedminster banner?

PETE BEVACQUA: I would say you're to make nothing of it. We are scheduled to go to Trump Bedminster for our PGA Championship in 2022. As you said we have announced that. It's a wonderful facility, it's two great golf courses. I mean obviously everybody in this room's aware of the situation and presidential politics that is we don't want to get involved in. We're not here to talk about presidential politics. We're certainly here to focus on this year's PGA Championship but we have a relationship in terms of our 2017 Senior PGA Championship presented by Kitchen Aid in the Washington, D.C. area and the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster. Both of those are scheduled.

Scheduled. On the warm and fuzzy scale, I'd put "Scheduled" at 5 on the scale, with Absolutely No Comment a 1 and Can't Frickin' Wait a 10.

As for the idea of getting involved in "presidential politics" as a way out of this, that answer might work had the Grand Slam not been pulled form Trump L.A. It's unclear why one venue is subjected to punishment for having a leader who is alienating people in the eyes of golf's leadership, but other venues are not subject to the same line-in-the-sand.