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This is a guy who’s been breaking par for the past 45 years. He belongs to nearly every creamy course in the world – Winged Foot, Seminole, Pine Valley, Cypress Point. If it’s on a top 10 in ...
Mar 11, 2019 · March 11, 2019, 3:15 PM. President Donald Trump won a golf tournament he didn't even enter. (Getty) Regardless of your feelings on President Trump, you can’t deny that the man knows and loves ...
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NYC RESIDENT* | Weekdays (Mon - Thurs) | Weekends (Fri - Sun) & Holidays |
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18 Holes | $162.00 | $195.00 |
Twilight** | $117.00 | $147.00 |
Sunset** | $109.00 | $120.00 |
Seniors*** | $104.00 | N/A |
Club information | |
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Location | St Andrews, Scotland |
Established | 1552 (469 years ago) |
Type | Public |
Owned by | Fife Council |
Trump later bumped into Virtue at the club and claimed the only reason Virtue won is because Trump didn’t get the chance to play because of the burden of manning the White House.
Former Sports Illustrated managing editor Mark Mulvoy told the Post that when he played Trump at Long Island’s Garden City Golf Club in the mid-1990s, the two took a pause from their game during a rainstorm. When they headed back out, Mulvoy noticed Trump’s ball appeared closer to the hole than it was before the shower.
Trump responded by arguing that cheating was necessary “to keep up,” since “the guys I play with cheat all the time, ” Mulvoy said.
A plaque mysteriously appeared on his golf club locker: "2018 Men's Club Champion."
Virtue agreed to give Trump a shot at the championship title with a nine-hole face-off. Trump won the challenge. Rather than claim the club champion title outright, Trump reportedly told Virtue they could be co-champions.
Of the 18 club championship “wins” that Trump listed for Golf Digest, 12 are actually senior or super senior club championships. So that leaves six real club championships. One of the six he lists was Trump Westchester 2001, when the club wasn’t officially open yet. That leaves five. The next was Westchester 2002, when the club was only nine holes. If it really happened, you can’t count that. That leaves four, one of them being Westchester in 2004. Could he have actually won that?
Final score on the “18 club championships”: Lies 16, Incompletes 2, Confirms 0. By this time, Trump’s nose has grown so long he could putt with it.
Unlike Trump, he’s as fine a golfing businessman as you can find. Marucci took 19-year-old Tiger Woods – 24 years his junior – to the last hole of the 1995 US Amateur before finally losing. So, Buddy Marucci, do YOU have 18 club championships? “Ha!” he laughed.
Like Trump, Marucci belongs to more clubs than you can fit in your bag. Like Trump, he’s in the right age bracket, at six years younger than Trump. Like Trump, he’s got all the money he needs to play as many club championships as he can fly to. Unlike Trump, he’s as fine a golfing businessman as you can find.
It wasn’t really the club championship at all. Trump won the “Super Seniors Club Championship,” which at most clubs is reserved for players 60 and older. Something to be proud of, sure, but not within a Super Walmart of beating the best young players in the club.
More than one source described another time when Trump happened to walk into the Bedminster clubhouse just as a worker was putting up the name of the newly crowned senior club championship winner on a wooden plaque. Trump had been out of town and hadn’t played in the tournament, but when he saw the player’s name, he stopped the employee. “Hey, I beat that guy all the time. Put my name up there instead.”
The latest Trump Golf Story — they’re like fish stories, except bigger, so much bigger, the biggest — comes to us courtesy of Golf.com’s esteemed Michael Bamberger, who reports that Trump’s locker at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. boasts a new plaque. This one reads “2018 Men’s Club Champion.” (This isn’t fake news. You can see a photo of the locker right here .)
Trump has visited his Florida club 18 times in the last year, part of the 161 estimated golf trips he’s taken since taking office, so perhaps he’ll be able to have someone get that corrected the next time he’s in town. Jay Busbee is a writer for Yahoo Sports.
No rules officials or television cameras were on hand for this unconventional sudden-death playoff, but Trump nonetheless claimed victory. He then turned to Virtue, according to Bamberger’s sources, and said, effectively, “This isn’t fair — we’ll be co-champions.”
So how did he end up with that plaque on his locker, a commemoration of his 20th club championship? (All of those club championships have come at clubs Trump owns, which definitely helps ensure the engraver spells his name correctly.) According to Bamberger, the original winner was a gentleman by the name of Ted Virtue, a CEO with memberships at Winged Foot and Trump International.
March 11, 2019, 3:15 PM. President Donald Trump won a golf tournament he didn't even enter. (Getty) Regardless of your feelings on President Trump, you can’t deny that the man knows and loves his golf. He’s put his name on well over a dozen courses around the world, he’s hosted majors at his clubs, and he can pick up the phone ...
The most obvious edit is probably on Trump’s left arm. Notice how much less of his arm you can see in the fake picture (right) compared to the real picture (left). Trump’s posterior in the fake picture was also enlarged, as well as his jowls.
That fake photograph, which was created by comedian Vic Berger, used subtle edits to make Trump’s sons appear “ugly” or “grotesque.”
While Trump really did golf over the Christmas holiday, this is not a genuine photograph from that trip. This picture has been subtly edited to make Trump appear fatter.