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In reply to the discussion: Sorry But America Disgraced Itself At The Ryder Cup [View all]not fooled
(6,479 posts)75. There's even a book about Krasnov and golf
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41716956-commander-in-cheat]
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
Rick Reilly
An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf -- on and off the green -- and what it reveals about his character.
Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an astonishing 18 club championships.
How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly reveals in this unsparing look at Trump in the world of golf.
Based on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100 golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game. You'll learn how Trump cheats (sometimes with the help of his caddies and Secret Service agents), lies about his scores (the "Trump Bump"
, tells whoppers about the rank of his courses and their worth (declaring that every one of them is worth $50 million), and tramples the etiquette of the game (driving on greens doesn't help). Trump doesn't brag so much, though, about the golf contractors he stiffs, the course neighbors he intimidates, or the way his golf decisions wind up infecting his political ones.
For Trump, it's always about winning. To do it, he uses the tricks he picked up from the hustlers at the public course where he learned the game as a college kid, and then polished as one of the most bombastic businessmen of our time. As Reilly writes, "Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man." Commander in Cheat "paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater" (Esquire), revealing all kinds of unsightly truths Trump has been hiding.
Rick Reilly
An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf -- on and off the green -- and what it reveals about his character.
Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an astonishing 18 club championships.
How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly reveals in this unsparing look at Trump in the world of golf.
Based on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100 golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game. You'll learn how Trump cheats (sometimes with the help of his caddies and Secret Service agents), lies about his scores (the "Trump Bump"

For Trump, it's always about winning. To do it, he uses the tricks he picked up from the hustlers at the public course where he learned the game as a college kid, and then polished as one of the most bombastic businessmen of our time. As Reilly writes, "Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man." Commander in Cheat "paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater" (Esquire), revealing all kinds of unsightly truths Trump has been hiding.
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Rory McIlroy shows frustration with crowd in putt build-up at Ryder Cup - Golf Channel
Goonch
Sunday
#5
These Assholes Should Have Been Immediately Ejected from the Course and Permanently Banned
The Roux Comes First
Sunday
#88
And I thought this was strange, the USA players are getting $500,000 each. Europe is not getting any money.
a kennedy
Sunday
#11
Golf galleries are now full of twenty-something goons drunkenly screaming "GET IN THE HOLE!!" during every swing,
sop
Yesterday
#104
MC behind vile Rory McIlroy chant at Ryder Cup unmasked as she quits job and issues grovelling apology
Wiz Imp
Sunday
#44
Heather McMahan (since the Record didn't give her first name for some reason)
muriel_volestrangler
Sunday
#55
I can accept a "rowdy" crowd in the Ryder Cup - it seems unnecessary to add a "warm up" act here
muriel_volestrangler
Sunday
#64
Keegan Bradley has refused to call out the New York mob who hounded Europe's stars.
Wiz Imp
Sunday
#45
Super. Next up - how to turn a golf tournament into a late 1980s British football riot . . .
hatrack
Sunday
#51
I know a guy who graduated college with a civil engineering degree and got a job with the Department of Transportation.
spike jones
Sunday
#65
I don't follow golf. So American golf spectators are behaving like Scottish soccer hooligans?
Ocelot II
Sunday
#67
Golf culture, always conservative even in the best of times, has become MAGA trash
Prairie Gates
Sunday
#80