Donald Trump sparks more cheating allegations after latest club championship win
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US president Donald Trump is a winning machine on the golf course. Turns out not a lot of people believe him, though…
If they were making a Mount Rushmore of golfers today, you would have a tough time arguing against Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods being included. The fourth? If you asked the man himself, it would be Donald Trump.
Just a few days after opening his new golf course in Scotland – a trip that also saw him caught up in a fresh cheating scandal – the president was back at Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey, to take part in the 2025 Senior Club Championship.
According to the website Did Trump Golf Today?, it was the 48th and 49th days out of 197 since taking office for the second time that he has spent on the links – a fraction shy of 25% of his presidency and at an estimated cost of $69 million to the taxpayer.
But it doesn’t matter, of course, as he only went and won the title.
According to the official White House X account – because where else would you go for your club championship scores? – Trump carded a 69 for a net 67, one shot clear of his nearest rivals, Bruce Aronwald and Terry Conley, who both shot 68 after their handicap adjustments.
It’s a hell of a run for the 79-year-old Trump, who was playing off 2. In March, he announced he had successfully defended the same title at Trump International in Florida. (He also said that was going to be his last, but once you get the taste for victory you don’t give it up easily.)
The sceptics in the replies are having none of it, though.
Bryan Lytics wrote: “For a 2 handicap (what Trump is based on that net score) to shoot 69 at Bedminster in competition is a .25%-.33% chance. This is using USGA scoring probability tables.”
And while it sounds like Bryan is applauding Trump’s achievement, he concluded the post by calling it an “amazing round” followed by an eye-roll emoji.
There were also a few nods to Kim Jong Il, the late North Korean leader who once claimed he had shot 38-underpar, including 11 holes-in-one, in his very first round of golf.
There was also this video doing the rounds of Trump’s bagman once again helping him out – though we can’t confirm if this was during the actual competition or not.
We’ll let you be the judge of that.
Rick Reilly, author of Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, is in no doubt.
Heposted on the same platform: “So you know, it’s NEVER legal for your caddie to drop a ball.
“YOU can drop one, but never on a green. And since this was a full-score event, its not legal for Trump to drag the ball into the hole. No, no, never. Our president is a f***ing golf cheat.”
By bestselling author Rick Reilly
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Donald Trump has won yet another club championship - this time at Trump National in Bedminster.
