All eyes on Trump at LIV season finale

LIV Golf’s season-ending event at Trump National Doral in Miami "represents a significant milestone," and it underlines the "fitting marriage" between LIV and Donald Trump. Both share "cantankerous approaches" that "have rarely been confronted with much self-awareness." Their "shared bullishness has undeniably brought success, though." It has been "less than five months since the Saudi-backed breakaway launched in London under a cloud of Greg Norman’s gaffes and against a tsunami of backlash encompassing the source of its financing." If the tournament "follows a similar pattern to LIV’s previous event at a Trump course" in Bedminster, N.J., the "descending crowd could well transform it into something closer to a campaign rally" (LONDON TIMES, 10/28).

The galleries will arrive today, and if Trump "does stay for the competition, as he did in July for the LIV event at Trump Bedminster, then maybe golf will again be treated to a spectacle that once and for all proves sport and politics do mix" (London TELEGRAPH, 10/27).