PGA Tour Returns to Trump National Doral for 2026 Signature Event

The PGA Tour has gone back to Trump National Doral, ending a decade-long separation that began when Donald Trump’s first presidential run made the resort too politically toxic for sponsors and the sport’s leadership. The return comes as a $20 million signature event at the Blue Monster in Miami, scheduled for April 30 to May 3, 2026, and it signals how far the tour has moved toward accommodation in Trump’s second era.

Doral was once a fixed stop on the schedule, hosting the World Golf Championships event from 2007 through 2016. Adam Scott won the final PGA Tour event there in 2016 before the tournament was moved to Mexico City the next year. The tour struggled to secure a title sponsor after Trump bought Trump National Doral in 2012, and the split became part of a broader rupture as Trump’s political rise changed the calculation around one of golf’s most recognizable properties.

The return is financially significant for both sides. For the PGA Tour, a signature event with an elevated purse and a strong expected field gives the schedule another marquee stop. For Trump National Doral, the comeback restores the prestige, television exposure and commercial value of a venue that had been pushed to the margins of the sport’s mainstream calendar. The Blue Monster also spent several years as a LIV Golf Miami site before the PGA Tour came back, underscoring how the property became a battleground in golf’s larger power struggle.

That history gives the 2026 event an unmistakable political edge. Trump once proposed using Doral as the site of a G7 summit in 2019, drawing ethics criticism before abandoning the plan. The resort’s return to the PGA Tour now reads as a quiet reversal of the earlier distance, one that reflects how institutions have adjusted to Trump rather than continued to isolate him.

The field adds to the sense of normalization. Early coverage identified Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young, Justin Rose, Collin Morikawa and Tommy Fleetwood among the expected players, even as some marquee names were said to be skipping the event. However the leaderboard shakes out, the larger story is the same: a league that once walked away from Trump-owned Doral is back on the Blue Monster, and both the resort and the president stand to benefit from the renewed embrace.