Shameless Trump a dreadful embarrassment to the grand old game of golf

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : In one of their chatty interludes in the golf cart, DeChambeau asked Trump what he liked about golf.
66% : After all the extraordinary things Trump had achieved in golf he had found room for improvement.
64% : By the time Rick Reilly wrote Commander in Cheat, his hilarious and stunning exposé of golf's greatest charlatan, Trump had laid a spurious claim to 18 club championships.
63% : For DeChambeau, it was a comfortable 7-iron; for Trump it was a flat-out smack of his driver that, miraculously, finished four feet from the pin.
62% : "On his third weekend in office Trump travelled to Mar-a-Lago, his luxury bolt-hole in Florida, and played golf on Saturday and Sunday.
57% : His enthusiastic endorsement of Trump just before polling day in 2020 - prompted by a call from vice-president Mike Pence - stained Nicklaus's reputation, irredeemably.
57% : Over the last three years, six LIV Golf events have been played on Trump courses in America and the Saudis have also invested in a course that Trump is building in Oman, forking out an initial payment of $5.4 million for a licensing fee.
55% : Turnberry in Scotland, one of the greatest links courses in the world, has not staged the Open since Trump bought the club 10 years ago.
55% : In other words: not so long as Trump is the owner.
54% : Nicklaus is one of the few establishment figures in golf who has anything to do with Trump now.
54% : Trump said last year that the DP World Tour was interested in staging the Irish Open at Doonbeg, the links course he owns in Clare, but no such interest has been declared.
53% : Trump valued each of his golf courses at $50 million in the financial disclosure he was obliged to make as a presidential candidate in 2016.
51% : To make the holes as short as possible they played from the women's tees at Bedminster - a Trump-owned course in New York - and the format was a better-ball scramble which meant that Trump played most of his shots from wherever DeChambeau's ball had landed.
49% : A year earlier, according to Politico, Trump had steered $20 million in state funding toward a mobile children's hospital project championed by Nicklaus, after the 18-time Major winner had lobbied Trump for assistance.
47% : "I think he's played 300 rounds of golf, or something like that," Trump said.
42% : In April of last year, at the Masters, Nicklaus said he wouldn't rule out supporting Trump again.
40% : For Trump, the truth is a like a single use wooden tee, decapitated on impact.
38% : In the five years since Reilly's book was published Trump has continued to make these groundless boasts.
36% : In their YouTube romp Trump and DeChambeau shot 50, failing to live up to the title of the series.
35% : Trump was not surprised.
35% : In Reilly's book, Mike Tirico, a TV sports presenter, tells a story of playing with Trump when the former president threw Tirico's ball into a bunker.
31% : Earlier in the series he had already shot 50 with an influencer dude that Trump had never heard of.
27% : The put upon European Seniors Tour has played events at Trump's course in Aberdeen in recent years - despite the acts of environmental vandalism that Trump has committed on the site, infuriating locals and the Scottish government.
21% : Trump was a pastiche of Ty Webb, the Chevy Chase character.
15% : "Before he was elected in 2016, Trump repeatedly taunted Barack Obama for how much golf he played while he was in the White House.
14% : Trump doesn't just play courses; he builds them, buys them, owns them, operates them, sues over them, lies about them, bullies with them and brags about them.

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