Trump, Notorious Golf Cheat, Claims He Beat Phil Mickelson

Voice over: Michael Robles
Writer: Peter Wade
Video editor: Lance Keller

While in office, Donald Trump
played more golf
than any
modern president, and the stories about him cheating at
the sport are rampant.
There’s an entire book
devoted to
his alleged flaunting of the game’s rules
. Despite his
reputation, Trump insists on claiming he regularly wins
tournaments, but suspiciously only at his own courses.
The former president on Saturday
wrote on Truth Social
about a recent senior tournament at Bedminster, his New
Jersey links, claiming he won its senior tournament. “I am
pleased to report, for those that care, that I just won the
Senior Club Championship (must be over 50 years old!) at
Bedminster (Trump National Golf Club), shooting a round
of 67,” Trump wrote.
As
Meidaite points out
, that score is an implausible eight
strokes lower than the score of 75 that renowned pro and
6-time major champion Phil Mikelson shot on the same
course two weeks earlier during a Saudi-backed LIV Golf
tournament. The outlet did note, however, that because it
was a senior tournament, Trump likely played from
different tees than the pros were starting from, and there
may have been other changes to the course, such as the
height of the rough, to make it more friendly to amateur
golfers.
Trump acknowledged in his post that people will doubt his
score. “Now, some people will think that sounds low, but
there is no hanky/lanky,” Trump said. “Many people watch,
plus I am surrounded by Secret Service Agents. Not much
you can do even if you wanted to, and I don’t. For some
reason, I am just a good golfer/athlete — I have won many
Club Championships, and it is always a great honor!”
It’s a laughable claim, that Trump couldn’t cheat because
he’s accompanied by Secret Service agents. In his book,
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, Rick
Reilly quoted players who claimed Trump’s caddies and
Secret Service protection actually aid the former
president’s cheating by
routinely moving his ball
into a
better position.
Trump was caught fudging his score at another
tournament earlier this year. In January, Trump claimed he
won the Senior Club Championship at Trump International
Golf Club in West Palm Beach, but skipped playing the
first round, instead posting a score he had shot
two days
before the tournament began
.
Lying about his golf game isn’t the only tall tale Trump told
last week. The former president also likely fudged his
height and weight when he was arrested in Georgia for his
alleged attempts to interfere with the state’s 2020 election
results. Trump claimed he was 6’3′′ and weighed 215
pounds — a full
30 pounds less
than was reported at his
last White House physical.
Unfortunately for Trump, the former president said his
legal troubles are preventing him from playing in (and
possibly lying about) another upcoming tournament at one
of his courses. “I have the Staysure Senior PGA
Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland, on my great course,
and I can’t go,”
Trump posted to Truth Social
on Sunday.
“I have to stay around and fight off the Crazed Radical Left
Lunatics, Communists, Marxists, and Fascists.

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