"Donald Trump cheats on golf: he cheats with Tiger Woods and forces caddy and 007 to do it"
Donald Trump kicks off other people's golf balls so well that he deserves the nickname of Pele. The president said he equalized a hole playing with Tiger Woods, but forgot to count his two strokes that ended up in the water one after the other. And he forced caddies and Secret Service agents to help him win by breaking the rules. I mean, Donald Trump cheats on golf. It is the thesis supported by testimonies and documented in the book Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.
The duel: "Mr President, do you play with me?"
“Did he really win them? And how? ”: Starting from this question Reilly entered the golfing world of The Donald. The reporter has reconstructed years and years of raids on the grass of (his) property where he is allowed everything (including passing on the green in a golf car). And after the publication of the book, Reilly challenged Donald Trump to play 18 holes with him on a neutral course with $ 100,000 up for grabs to be donated to charity.
Hey @realDonaldTrump... I told this AP reporter I'd take you on for 18 holes for $100k... As long as we both had rules officials with us and you don't get to use one of your cheating caddies... You game? https://t.co/rwWSLCvnq6
— Rick Reilly (@ReillyRick) April 2, 2019
By doing so, the author wants to demonstrate the veracity of what is written in Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump. Given the premises, there are only two conditions: the presence of one or more marshalls (ie referee judges) and Trump's inability to use one of his trusted caddies. The White House is hiding behind a no comment on both the single battle and the thesis "Donald Trump cheats on golf".
Golf and the White House
The current president of the United States, like many of his predecessors, has never made any secret of his immense passion for the sport. A love that has rightly become a business too: seventeen golf courses around the world are headed by his entrepreneurial galaxy, all top-level resorts. One of these Mar-A-Lago was elected to the Winter White House: it is no coincidence that this was the seat, after a tour on the field, of the meeting with Japanese President Shinzo Abe. Trump spent more and more time there, he who attacked Barack Obama during the election campaign for too many hours spent practicing and subtracting from politics ... Thus the forty-fifth president of the United States went from commander-in-chief to golfer-in-chief . And now to commander in cheat.
"Trump cheats on golf like a mafia accountant"
But back to the book Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, released on Tuesday, April 2. The revelations are burning and certainly the author will have legally protected himself in view of an appendix to be written perhaps in a courtroom.
The reporter, on the CNN New Day program, stated that “Donald Trump cheats on golf like a mafia accountant. Coffin whether you watch it or not. Cheat whether you like him or not. He tried to cheat when he played with Tiger Woods: he threw two balls into the water without marking any on the score, claiming to have equalized the score, ”said the reporter. It was 2017 and Woods and Trump's playmates were Dustin Johnson (now number one in the world rankings) and Fox Gold technical commentator Brad Faxon. There have always been doubts about the president's sportsmanship.
From the handicap to the mystery of certain rolling balls
Many doubt that the tycoon is a 2.8 handicap. For the layman: the handicap corresponds to the skill level of a player. The lower the handicap, the fewer shots the player needs to pocket the ball. It is a number that takes into account the last twenty results obtained in official competitions. Since the Americans do not miss anything, it appears that the president has visited his clubs at least 150 times in the last two years but has only played one game according to the results on the USGA Handicap Index servers. Is it possible to have such a low handicap by doing a race in two years?
Many, including Reilly, doubt that he actually won those 18 social championships he is proud of. The social championship is an annual competition reserved only for members of a golf club. According to urban legend (but not too much) one of these titles would have been won without even being physically on the pitch on match day. Who was there tells the following version of the facts: the social match was won by Mr. Rossi, Trump then played and won against Mr. Rossi and therefore the president is the social champion. Is that enough to support the thesis that Donald Trump is cheating at golf?
At the Winged Foot Golf Club in New York, the only non-owned course where Trump plays occasionally, the local caddies no longer even pay attention to the pro-president irregularities and, in fact, have compared him to Pele. A journalist, Mike Tirico, still remembers today an inexplicable episode that occurred during a ride with the president: his ball stopped on the green but, due to some strange force of nature, after Trump passed it rolled over the green, ending up in a bunker of sand.
"Trump cheats on golf and even his escort is not joking"
In the world of golf, an old saying goes that a golfer behaves on the field the same way he behaves in life. For Americans, golf is sacred. Reilly, I repeat, admits he wrote after hearing the White House tenant brag about his success on the pitch. Right on the field, the journalist documented himself, starting from who is (or was) on the staff of the commander-in-chief. Anyone who joins Trump on the fairways now knows what to do, whether it's one of his trusted caddies or Secret Service agents. Their task is one: to facilitate the victory of the president and his ego of him.
Of course, it's one thing if the help comes from the caddy, another if the remote-controlled oversight comes from the 007s. The former are on the payroll of clubs or in Donald Trump's private contacts. The latter, paid for with American taxes, should safeguard the safety of the president 24 hours a day, including moments of leisure. Their duties do not yet include safeguarding the handicap of the president of the United States.
