Democratic senators: Move U.S. Women's Open out of Trump's N.J. golf course

TRENTON — A trio of Democratic U.S. senators are calling on the United States Golf Association to move next year's U.S. Women's Open away from Donald Trump's Bedminster golf course.

Trump National Bedminster — one of three private clubs that Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, owns in the Garden State — is set to host the event next July.

But Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Bob Casey, of Pennsylvania, and Edward Markey of Massachusetts are asking USGA executive director Mike Davis to change that because of what they call a "pattern of degrading and dehumanizing women" over decades.

"The decision that the USGA makes is more consequential than simply the geographic location of a golf tournament," the senators wrote in a letter to Davis Tuesday. "In declining future association with a brand that degrades women, the USGA and LPGA have an opportunity to make clear to the world, and most especially young Americans, that our nation will not tolerate nor do business with any company that condones or excuses action that constitutes sexual assault."

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