Bermuda’s hopes of bringing back the Grand Slam of Golf this year have been dashed.

The 36-hole exhibition was supposed to be played next month at Trump National course in Los Angeles.

However, the PGA of America and Donald Trump agreed that it would move away from Trump’s course after he drew criticism for his remarks about Mexican immigrants while launching his candidacy to become the next President of the United States

The PGA of America had been looking for a replacement course with suitable dates — Bermuda being the obvious choice.

“The PGA will comment further at the appropriate time,” it said in a statement a few weeks ago.

But yesterday the PGA of America announced that it had cancelled the event because of the timing and logistics required to stage the tournament at the “highest standards”.

This year a local golf official said that agreeing to host the tournament again if the Trump venue was ruled out, was a “no-brainer”.

The event was first held in 2007 in Bermuda at Mid Ocean Club and was later moved to Port Royal, where it continued until last year.

Previously, the event was held in Hawaii.

The event features the winners of the four majors — the Masters, US Open, the Open Championship and the PGA Championship.

This year Jordan Spieth won both the Masters and US Open, Zach Johnson the Open and Jason Day the PGA Championship.

With Spieth having won two of the majors, a fourth PGA Tour player would have been selected to make up the field.