But the commentary on his golf is another example of sane washing by understatement. He is a hack with the worst swing imaginable. He’s too unwell and bloated to swing properly. Posting 70s with a small gaggle to hand him trophies, he being the only contestant apparently, should be framed not about whether he cheats — as if this is at all normal — but as insanity, and insanity among all the people enabling such a deranged spectacle.
I enjoyed this humorous column with the revealing stories it tells. Trump seems to have an allergy to telling the truth and no medicine can cure him. That he sees lying as harmless, if not a necessity, deeply concerns me. His reports of success in Iran are now humorous. I played golf frequently in high school, not long enough to win 43 tournaments and the thought of cheating never occurred to me. I don't cheat at anything as I have a conscience. As Clint Eastwood said in "Cool Hand Luke," "A man gots to accept his limitations." Integrity means more to me than winning.
"Beware the loutification of golf," Jay wrote last September. The louts are loud and proud on and off the links in America. What hasn't be loutified here?
"A score of 70 would be two under par. That is, again, incredible. As Rick Reilly commented, 'No 80-year-old on earth with a pancake swing and the chip yips has ever shot TEN SHOTS under his age.'"
Now, there may have been a time when Trump played some respectable golf. That's behind him. The honorable thing to do is to accept that your game isn't what it used to be or QUIT.
Neither is possible w Trump. It's all rather transparent to all but the MAGA, just like in so many other aspects of his character and presidency.
I think you’d like a new novel that mentions the Hogan honesty legend: Honest John Pine by Vince Wheeler. Refreshing story about an Iowa golfer- who is good AND honest. Great read.
I love golf a great deal more than she loves me, but I love the tradition, the sportsmanship, the adherence to rules, and the obligation to call a penalty on oneself. It is a sport like no other.
The Bobby Jones incident is essential; can you imagine such integrity in anyone in any sport today?
I think my favourite anecdote is the concession to Jacklin by Nicklaus in a Ryder Cup final in 1969.
Nicklaus was probably the last “superstar” golfer to understand that the sport was still larger than he was great.
According to golf, food, and travel writer Josh Sens, Kim Jung Il’s 38-under-par 34 golf score was indeed reported by the North Korean state news agency. But the manager of the Pyongyang Golf Course told Josh that Kim’s reported score had resulted from the news agency’s misreading of the five 1s on Kim’s card as holes-in-one. However, that might be just another lie, told in a land of lies, to establish the “true origin” of the obviously farcical one.
Behind Kim Jung Il’s Famous Round of Golf, by Josh Sens
I standby what I said in August’s comments section…as I still cannot believe Ten Years Gone is as beautiful a song to listen to today as The Trump Show was something I thought was going to go off the air the first Tuesday In November…2016. But I am still hanging on to the skin of my teeth with in the belief we the people are “Still the Best Hope”…as I have been shaking my head for six years now how unbelievably soul crushing The Don King Trump, I mean Heat Miser in the flesh, Agent Orangeman burns everyone he touches…I finally had had enough of my former rabbi Prager in December 2020 after his literally defending the BIG FING LIE …that a few weeks later got a young looney tune true be lie ver in The Art of the Steal rightfully, summarily executed on the same night a monster, I mean mobster should have suffered the same…But, like I will put in writing, HANG MIKE PENCE. HANG MIKE PENCE. HANG MIKE PENCE, I mean what is wrong with what I just said, when The Don King Trump himself could literally hear and see white trash rioters 6/7 er’s chant that from his Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office window. Butt We the Living in Kakistocracy…after all that was said in the Thirties and done in the early Forties, I guess we might survive..but I do not know anyone around my age that thinks kids these dayz will grow up to be the greatest generation…for unlike my old man’s, German kids had their Dear Leader Donnie from Queens, I mean Addie for over ten years gone…and look what they grew up to do…tolerate a liar, a cheater, a thief and Neo nationalist sociopath…No worries, I need a new IPad made in “Chi Na” by “my friend Xi”, I mean Uyghur reeducation and work to death camp victims of the new and improved evil empire Chinese Communist Corona Party…Chairman Mao would be so proud, as Donald J Trump was rolling out the bloody red carpet welcome mat, on American soil, for a dictator and mass murderer. GOD HELP U.S. Please forgive me Jesus and take him…I mean Calgon take me away. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Peace through superior mental firepower
But the commentary on his golf is another example of sane washing by understatement. He is a hack with the worst swing imaginable. He’s too unwell and bloated to swing properly. Posting 70s with a small gaggle to hand him trophies, he being the only contestant apparently, should be framed not about whether he cheats — as if this is at all normal — but as insanity, and insanity among all the people enabling such a deranged spectacle.
I enjoyed this humorous column with the revealing stories it tells. Trump seems to have an allergy to telling the truth and no medicine can cure him. That he sees lying as harmless, if not a necessity, deeply concerns me. His reports of success in Iran are now humorous. I played golf frequently in high school, not long enough to win 43 tournaments and the thought of cheating never occurred to me. I don't cheat at anything as I have a conscience. As Clint Eastwood said in "Cool Hand Luke," "A man gots to accept his limitations." Integrity means more to me than winning.
"Beware the loutification of golf," Jay wrote last September. The louts are loud and proud on and off the links in America. What hasn't be loutified here?
"A score of 70 would be two under par. That is, again, incredible. As Rick Reilly commented, 'No 80-year-old on earth with a pancake swing and the chip yips has ever shot TEN SHOTS under his age.'"
Now, there may have been a time when Trump played some respectable golf. That's behind him. The honorable thing to do is to accept that your game isn't what it used to be or QUIT.
Neither is possible w Trump. It's all rather transparent to all but the MAGA, just like in so many other aspects of his character and presidency.
I think you’d like a new novel that mentions the Hogan honesty legend: Honest John Pine by Vince Wheeler. Refreshing story about an Iowa golfer- who is good AND honest. Great read.
Jay, this is a superior effort.
Well-done, and thank you.
I love golf a great deal more than she loves me, but I love the tradition, the sportsmanship, the adherence to rules, and the obligation to call a penalty on oneself. It is a sport like no other.
The Bobby Jones incident is essential; can you imagine such integrity in anyone in any sport today?
I think my favourite anecdote is the concession to Jacklin by Nicklaus in a Ryder Cup final in 1969.
Nicklaus was probably the last “superstar” golfer to understand that the sport was still larger than he was great.
This is wonderful writing, and a joy to ponder.
Thank you so much.
Rules/ honor is for thee, but not for me, says our Dear Leader.
I doubt Trump started cheating in old age. Most likely he has been cheating at golf and his "love" life since his youth.
Also, I read the last time he played in a golf tournament on a course he didn't own he was in the bottom fifth of the field.
According to golf, food, and travel writer Josh Sens, Kim Jung Il’s 38-under-par 34 golf score was indeed reported by the North Korean state news agency. But the manager of the Pyongyang Golf Course told Josh that Kim’s reported score had resulted from the news agency’s misreading of the five 1s on Kim’s card as holes-in-one. However, that might be just another lie, told in a land of lies, to establish the “true origin” of the obviously farcical one.
Behind Kim Jung Il’s Famous Round of Golf, by Josh Sens
https://golf.com/news/behind-kim-jong-ils-famous-round-of-golf/?srsltid=AfmBOoqwm9zC7ms_OmTFZCdWZ0-znnbtE4RFMmPwsBEPscvzOmLcc5K0
Thank you, Jay, that was an enjoyable read.
Thx!
I suspect Trump’s best club is a size 10 1/2.
So, if I lie 2 on the green on every hole, and then 2-putt into the cup, my strokes will total 72.
To score 70, I will have to forget the putts, and just lie.
And that's what Donnie does best.
Rhetorical question, of course.
Yeah nah…..North Korean state media never made any such claim about outlandish golf scores…..though various western media reported that they did.
I standby what I said in August’s comments section…as I still cannot believe Ten Years Gone is as beautiful a song to listen to today as The Trump Show was something I thought was going to go off the air the first Tuesday In November…2016. But I am still hanging on to the skin of my teeth with in the belief we the people are “Still the Best Hope”…as I have been shaking my head for six years now how unbelievably soul crushing The Don King Trump, I mean Heat Miser in the flesh, Agent Orangeman burns everyone he touches…I finally had had enough of my former rabbi Prager in December 2020 after his literally defending the BIG FING LIE …that a few weeks later got a young looney tune true be lie ver in The Art of the Steal rightfully, summarily executed on the same night a monster, I mean mobster should have suffered the same…But, like I will put in writing, HANG MIKE PENCE. HANG MIKE PENCE. HANG MIKE PENCE, I mean what is wrong with what I just said, when The Don King Trump himself could literally hear and see white trash rioters 6/7 er’s chant that from his Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office window. Butt We the Living in Kakistocracy…after all that was said in the Thirties and done in the early Forties, I guess we might survive..but I do not know anyone around my age that thinks kids these dayz will grow up to be the greatest generation…for unlike my old man’s, German kids had their Dear Leader Donnie from Queens, I mean Addie for over ten years gone…and look what they grew up to do…tolerate a liar, a cheater, a thief and Neo nationalist sociopath…No worries, I need a new IPad made in “Chi Na” by “my friend Xi”, I mean Uyghur reeducation and work to death camp victims of the new and improved evil empire Chinese Communist Corona Party…Chairman Mao would be so proud, as Donald J Trump was rolling out the bloody red carpet welcome mat, on American soil, for a dictator and mass murderer. GOD HELP U.S. Please forgive me Jesus and take him…I mean Calgon take me away. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Peace through superior mental firepower
I missed this column previously but Jay alerted me to it today. I'm reading the Trump book now and Jay is spot on in all his comments.
Thanks Jay.