By: Don Driggers
The Eric Adams administration has given the green light for The Trump golf course in the Bronx to have a woman’s golf event that is partially being supported by the Saudi Arabian government, according to a New York Times report.
A women’s golf tournament sponsored by the Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco is set to be held in October at The Trump Golf Links golf course at Ferry Point in the Bronx. It has just gained approval by Mayor Adams and the city this week after the city determined it did not have a legal way to prevent it from happening.
The New York Times writes that even the Trump Organization’s management of the lease of the golf course was at risk The Trump Organization’s management of the course was the subject of a tense battle with the city last year. The former mayor, Bill de Blasio, moved to terminate the company’s contract following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol in Washington. But in April 2022, a judge ruled that the Trump Organization could continue to operate the city-owned golf course and found that New York City had wrongly terminated the contract. Mr. de Blasio had argued that Mr. Trump had incited violence in Washington, which he said qualified as criminal activity that gave the city the right to sever ties.
Although many people are against Saudi Arabian influence in America due to their role in the attacks of 9/11 and for their poor humans rights record but other welcome the attention and cash it brings to women’s golf.
“Aramco stepped in and they are providing an opportunity for us to compete,” Bronte Law, a female English golfer, said at an event near London in June to The New York Times. “I think that shouldn’t go unheard.”
The team series did not immediately comment on Thursday. The Ladies European Tour, which sanctions the series, did not respond to a message left by The New York Times.
The Aramco Team Series website lists an event in New York City scheduled for Oct. 13 through 15, but says only that more information about the venue is “coming soon.”
According to Wikipedia, Saudi Aramco is a Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran. As of 2020, it is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue. Saudi Aramco has both the world’s second-largest proven crude oil reserves, at more than 270 billion barrels (43 billion cubic metres), and largest daily oil production of all oil-producing companies It is the single greatest contributor to global carbon emissions of any company in the world since 1965.