For Trump’s golf course, PGA tournament is ‘the greatest marketing in the world’


The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold explains how President Trump’s brand stands to gain positive publicity from the Senior PGA Championship hosted at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. (McKenna Ewen,Jenny Starrs,Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

The following article by David Fahrenthold and Jonathan O’Connell was posted on the Washington Post website May 26, 2017:

A little after 1 p.m. on Thursday, anybody watching the Senior PGA Championship on the Golf Channel got to see a little bit of American history.

A man came on the screen during a commercial break to praise the golf course hosting the event — a course that happens to be owned by the president of the United States. Continue reading “For Trump’s golf course, PGA tournament is ‘the greatest marketing in the world’”