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Trump announced on his social media platform on Tuesday that he won the Senior Club Championship at Trump International Golf Club in unincorporated West Palm Beach last weekend, despite not playing the first round of the tournament.
Members arrived the second day surprised to see Trump with a five-point lead, according to the Daily Mail. But Trump never played the first round as he was attending a funeral in North Carolina of ardent supporter Lynette Hardaway, known by the moniker Diamond of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk.
Trump told tournament organizers he played a strong round on the course Thursday, two days before the tournament started, and decided that would count as his Saturday score for the club championship. That score was five points better than any competitor posted during Saturday's first round.
And then he posted:
Competed against many fine golfers and was hitting the ball long and straight," he wrote. "The reason that I announce this on fabulous TRUTH is that, in a very real way, it serves as a physical exam, only MUCH tougher. You need strength and stamina to WIN, & I have strength & stamina most others dont. You also need strength & stamina to GOVERN!
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/2023/01/24/donald-trump-declares-himself-winner-of-his-own-golf-championship/69835418007/
Should give him the George Santos Trophy
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)apparently let it all slide and said nothing.
Deuxcents
(16,235 posts)It was written by four investigative journalists from the Miami Herald n its about tfg n Mar a Largo. This winning at his golf course is so much like everything else Im reading. The members of his club call him King n he can do no wrong even while he picks their pockets.
Emile
(22,780 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)Botany
(70,512 posts)In this book there is a story about Trump throwing a ball from a green because an 11 or 12 year old
boy was kicking his at in golf.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Botany
(70,512 posts)make a flop shot 19 out of 20 times
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Botany
(70,512 posts)Donald Trump is the worst cheat ever and he doesnt care who knows, Rick Reilly says as he describes a man he has known for 30 years. I always say golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man. And golf reveals a lot of ugliness in this president.
Reilly, the former Sports Illustrated columnist, has written a book called Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump. Its rattling good fun which also depicts the startling duplicity of the president as a golfer. Youre mostly laughing, Reilly says, but at times youre crying how did this happen? As a golfer he really offends me. Cheating? Hate that. Driving carts on greens? Hate that. Wearing old dockers two sizes too small for him? Give me a break. Kicking your ball so often the caddies call you Pelé? I so hate that. Most of all I hate how stupid hes making my country look. I hate what hes doing to my planet. I hate what hes doing to kids at the border. I dont mind Republicans. I just cant stand this guy. I love golf and he has set the game back 30 years. Just when it was becoming cool with Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler we get this fat bozo cheating his ass off.
Dr Lance Dodes, a Harvard psychiatrist, tells Reilly that Trump is a very ill man who exhibits all the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. Reilly sighs. Its terrible he should cheat at golf which is the one sport where we self-regulate. There are referees in every other sport but in golf, if youre 200 yards away, you can kick the ball and get away with it. I called the National Golf Foundation. They said 90% of golfers dont cheat. Golf is an honest game but this guy leaves a big ugly orange stain on it. It really pisses me off.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/dec/10/rick-reilly-donald-trump-golf-commander-in-cheat-book-interview
* Except for racist/sexist dumb fucks
packman
(16,296 posts)bluestarone
(16,959 posts)I mean honestly win it. He's nothing but a LOSER. (CHEATER)
Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)2naSalit
(86,643 posts)He does that for most of them. Any of the nationals he can't but anything else held in the kind court is his to call.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)TFG was at the Diamond/Silk event during the first round of this so-called tournament