Donald Trump plays golf with putters… made in Brittany
LE SCAN SPORT - Cocorico! While the 45th President of the United States advocates “America first” in all his speeches, he trusts a Breton company when he plays golf.
Golf, for Donald Trump, is a very serious matter. Owner of 19 courses around the world, including some prestigious ones such as Turnberry in Scotland, which regularly hosts the British Open, or the Doral in Florida, still recently host of the WGC-Cadillac Championship, the current resident of the White House is an assiduous practitioner. . He would thus display an impressive handicap of 2.8! During his first month of presidency (January 20-February 20, 2017), he devoted 25 hours of his time to golfing, especially in Florida, his usual base for weekends.
Last July, barely getting off Air Force One after an official visit to France where he attended the July 14 parade on the Champs-Elysées, he rushed to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster (New Jersey) to handing the US Open Women's Trophy to South Korea's Sung Hyun Park. On October 1, he was still there, in the suburbs of New York, to warmly congratulate the American team of Presidents Cup which had just thrown the international team, 19 to 11. A first because no president of the United States in function before him had moved personally to tighten the paws and distribute the good points. As such, Donald Trump is perpetuating this tradition which means that, since Dwight D. Eisenhower, all the presidents of the greatest world power are “enlightened” amateurs of the little white ball.
On the other hand, it is more astonishing to learn that the successor of Barack Obama, also crazy about golf, has French putters in his bag. More particularly Breton putters, as specified by Le Parisien in its edition of January 29, 2018. He released them at the end of November during a friendly game played on the course of the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, again in Florida, in the company of Brad Faxon, Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson, the world number one.
Donald Trump trusts Argolf based in Pleslin-Trivagou
These putters bear the Argolf brand, created in 2010 by Armor Meca, located in Pleslin-Trivagou (Côtes-d'Armor), a company founded in 1965 and specializing in high precision machining. Completely addicted to golf, the bosses of the Argolf brand, Sébastien and Olivier Colas, have decided to launch their own brand by baptizing their range of names evoking the legend of King Arthur: Lancelot, Morgane, Merlin, Pendragon, Graal… “Our products are made with noble materials such as titanium cut in the mass, stainless steel and leather. Whether it is to machine Rafale parts or to shape our clubs, we use the same machines, ”says Olivier Colas.
These top-of-the-range putters which are beginning to establish themselves on the US market are certainly not cheap (between 350 and 950 euros per unit) but they seem to have already proven themselves at the highest level. Thus, the American Kenny Perry, beaten in the playoff of the Masters 2009 by the Argentinian Angel Cabrera but winner of the US Open senior on July 2, is equipped with an Argolf putter.
A rising French brand
The French brand (the turnover of the company Armor Meca has multiplied by four in eight years) which is rising and rising in this sector now intends to attack the… Asian market. So when will an Argolf putter in the bag of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who invited Donald Trump last November to a game of ... golf on the course which will host the discipline at the next Tokyo Olympics in 2020?
