President Donald Trump makes the Ryder Cup appearance

Farmingdale, NY – the last time I spoke to Donald Trump was on the eve of the PGA 2022 championship in Southern Hills, between Trump I and Trump II. I have played a lot of Golf with Trump, all long before he runs for president for the first time, and talking golf with him is funny. I asked him how he was playing.

“Like Scottie,” the president said once and the next one. Scottie Scheffler, then Masters Reigning Masters Champion. They had just played together in Dallas, where Scheffler lives.

I resisted them.

45th and 47th President of the United States visited Ryder cup Friday, in Bethpage Black25 miles from Trump’s childhood home, a residence in the Queens’s Jamaican section. I don’t know if Trump ever played Bethpage Black. He has told me about the new rounds of golf he played at Cobbs Creek, a city -owned course at West Philadelphia, which Trump said he played while attending the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania for his new and old years after began in Fordam. Last month, Tiger Woods He paid a visit to Cobbs Creek, where a mass renewal is underway and where a Tiger Woods teaching center was created.

Trump has played Golf with various members of the European and American teams Ryder Cup-Bryson Dechambeau mostly-and his passion for Golf goes deep, so it is not surprising that he made this prominent visit to Bethpage. His mother was born in Scotland but there is no doubt where his root loyalty in this 45th Ryder is standing. Who can forget President Trump’s pleasant embrace of an American flag during his first term?

Half-School, I once asked Trump if he could be the first owner of the course to serve as a US Open, a British Open AND A cup of ryder.

“This is a very interesting question,” Trump said, all tired. He had a day on the ground with him and we have reached this topic now and again. Trying to promote different properties, through the pages of Sports IllustratedHe would usually say Trump Bedminster for an open US, Trump DC for a Ryder and Trump Scotland Cup in Aberdeen for an Open British. Turnberry did not yet have his name and stamp on property. He loved this kind of nice conversation.

At the US Open 2009 at Bethpage Black, I saw with some fear while Trump drove his Rolls Royce up to the club and parked his vehicle there. No one stopped it. No one said one thing. He had the place tied.

Entries to Bethpage Black were closed when President Trump arrived at Bethpage Black late on Friday morning, this time not by Rolls Royce but through Air Force One and the presidential motorcycle. He talked to the American players and their captain and his assistants in the club, then he did the same thing in the first Tee when the afternoon session began. He was wearing a jacket. When he plays, President Trump always wears pants. He doesn’t believe in playing golf with shorts. Most of his many partners playing over the years wear shorts, defending him as President of the United States or the owner of the course they are playing. Tennis, yes. When Dechambeau played the first afternoon of Friday, President Trump stood alone, his hands on his side, seeing carefully, saying no word. For a moment there, the scene belonged to Dechambeau, who hanged with Eric Trump after winning US Open at 2020 US Open in Winged Foot, where Donald Trump is a long member. When Dechambeau played with Trump as part of it Breaking 50 series on YouTubeWhen Trump was looking for his second term, Texan, through California, played in shorts. Trump led the carriage. Dechambeau’s work was the driving of par-4 greens, or trying, however.

President Trump’s job on Friday afternoon, in the close context of this international golf competition, was to give the local team a round spark after collecting the morning session. Americans traced Europeans, 3-1, during lunch, a term used freely here. Justin Rose, the Englishman who won the US Open 2013, ate his lunch as he walked to his first Tee for his afternoon session, where President Trump served as a tour of the tournament in a way of speaking. Tee first is the stage of players. The 47th president of the United States was just another fan. Well, not really, but you get the idea.

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