{"id":250233,"date":"2026-04-28T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:49:09","slug":"gold-statue-of-president-trump-steals-spotlight-ahead-of-cadillac-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250233\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold statue of President Trump steals spotlight ahead of Cadillac Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DORAL, Fla.  \u2014 The PGA Tour returns after 10 years to Trump National Doral for a $20 million signature event, but a large gold statue of President Donald Trump is stealing the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/28\/estatua-dorada-del-presidente-trump-roba-protagonismo-antes-del-campeonato-cadillac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/28\/estatua-dorada-del-presidente-trump-roba-protagonismo-antes-del-campeonato-cadillac\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2026\/04\/28\/donald-trump-statue-at-doral-golf-course-draws-attention\/89837410007\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2026\/04\/28\/donald-trump-statue-at-doral-golf-course-draws-attention\/89837410007\/\">Golfweek<\/a>, the statue stands 15 feet tall and was installed at the resort earlier this month ahead of the Cadillac Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The outlet reports that the statue was created by artist Alan Cottrill and commissioned by a cryptocurrency group ($PATRIOT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It depicts the president raising one fist into the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Five players from the top 15 in the world will be sitting out for the event. That includes Masters champion Rory McIlroy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Adam Scott won the last PGA Tour event at Doral in 2016 when it was a World Golf Championship. Only nine other players from that WGC are in the field. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is the latest start for the course owned by Trump. Doral hosted a LIV Golf event from 2022 through 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM DORAL, Fla. \u2014 The PGA Tour returns after 10 years to Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-250233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}