Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer is canceling his July charity golf event for this year that set to take place at the Blue Monster, Trump National in Doral, Florida.
The Buffalo veteran and former All-Pro/ Pro Bowler said that due to its location at a Donald Trump course, the event will have to be rescheduled until next year, as teams and sponsors backed out last minute.
It was originally scheduled for July 10 in South Florida, but according to Poyer, the “external pressures and distractions” were too much to handle in a few short weeks.
“Unfortunately, there have been numerous amount of teams up north that have pulled out of the tournament. Not just out of the tournament but also wrote e-mails to a big sponsor that was going to help sponsor my tournament,” Poyer said on Instagram on Monday. “And that company now, it’s unfortunate that they have pulled out and decided that they don’t want to take part in my tournament, in which they took part last year, because of where it’s at, the Trump National in Doral.”
His wife, Rachel Bush, followed up on Twitter by saying her husband didn’t cancel the event they were both excited about. It was canceled “by the arrogance of others,” as she mentions they will still try to have one in the same location next year, regardless of the public backlash and lack of teams/sponsors participating.
Poyer mentioned the ECMC as a major sponsor, as it is the Erie County Medical Center. This charity event was supposed to benefit this foundation, as he had worked with the group for over a year now but ended up pulling out of the event.
An ECMC spokesperson told the Buffalo News that the foundation was only a beneficiary and not a sponsor.
Susan Gonzalez, the ECMC Foundation executive director, confirmed they were just a beneficiary. She said in a statement: “We have had an excellent partnership with Jordan and we respect his decision to cancel his tournament.”
According to its website, the foundation in Buffalo “enhances what ECMC offers to our patients and community, secures the resources that make all the difference, and takes on initiatives to financially support the lifesaving work of ECMC.”
Poyer displayed his frustrations about this situation in his social media post about rescheduling the event to next year, as there is no information about that as of now other than Rachel’s tweet.
“I hoped we could kind of get past that and I thought that we did. It seems that we haven’t and it seems that this is, even just the way America is right now. It seems like our egos kind of get in the way of being a good human being,” he said on Instagram. “And that’s sharing love, sharing conversations, sharing laughter with others that may not believe in the same things that you do.”
