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Donald Trump is now the president-elect of the United States, and that has ramifications within the golf world. Trump's businesses run across continents and will affect multiple major championships over the next several years.

For example, he now owns Turnberry in Scotland, and that course will likely get another Open Championship soon. He also owns several courses in the United States that host professional events.

Another one of those U.S. events will be held at Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey, which will play host to the 2017 U.S. Women's Open. During the campaign, a litany of Trump statements deemed as degrading toward women were aired, and recently a group of U.S. senators called on the USGA to move the tournament elsewhere.

Senators Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Dick Blumenthal (D-Conn.) signed the letter addressed to Mike Davis, USGA executive director and CEO.

"The decision that the USGA makes is more consequential than simply the geographic location of a golf tournament," the Senators wrote in a letter dated 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."

The USGA responded recently and said the 2017 U.S. Women's Open will be played as scheduled.

"The USGA has not changed its position on the 2017 U.S. Women's Open at this time," spokeswoman Janeen Driscoll told USA Today.

This exchange underscores the issue of having a sitting president so involved in pro golf. Sure, that could be great, but with the divisive politics of our country intertwined, it could also go very badly. This tournament (and others in the future) will probably be more about Trump than the actual golf, which is unfortunate.

Other unofficial events have been moved away from Trump courses but nothing this big or important, although the Women's British Open was apparently nearly moved away from Turnberry. The aforementioned WGC-Cadillac Championship was moved away from Trump's Doral in Florida, but their contract with Cadillac for the event was up. It will now be called the WGC-Mexico Championship and be held south of the border.

"We greatly appreciate everything that Cadillac, Trump National Doral and Donald Trump have done for the tournament," PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said at the time, noting that the move is not in "any way, shape or form a political exercise."

Trump's son, Eric, told CBS Sports at the time that Cadillac wanted to renew its sponsorship.

The entire ecosystem of golf involving a sitting president is just ... messy. Trump owns dozens of courses and has his fingerprints all over the sport.

"We've just never had anything happen like this in golf before," Jim Furyk recently told Yahoo about the idea of a sitting president being so embedded in the golf world.

It will be difficult for the women participating in the 2017 U.S. Open to endure question after question about someone they may not care to talk about. Natalie Gulbis actually spoke at the Republican National Convention, so Trump has at least one pro golfer in his corner regarding this event when it comes around.