![]() But because Woods and Johnson are so preposterously long off the tee, they decided Faxon and Trump could tee off the middle tees. They set up a bet: Faxon and Trump against Woods and Johnson. 1 player in the world at the time), and longtime Tour pro and Fox golf analyst Brad Faxon to play. Not long after becoming president, Trump invited Woods, Dustin Johnson (the No. He cheats because that’s how he plays golf, that’s how he learned it, that’s how he needs it, and whether you’re his pharmacist or Tiger Woods, if you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat. He cheats when people are watching, and he cheats when they aren’t. So if it’s the same, if everybody’s cheating, he doesn’t see it as really cheating.”Ī) Everybody isn’t. Except for an occasional mulligan on the first tee and accepting a gimme (a short conceded putt) from an opponent, 85 percent of casual golfers play by the rules, according to the National Golf Foundation.ī) To say “Donald Trump cheats” is like saying “Michael Phelps swims.” He cheats at the highest level. But I think Donald, in his heart of hearts, believes that you’re gonna cheat him, too. And I expect you to cheat because we’re going to beat those two guys today.’… So, yes, it’s true, he’s going to cheat you. But then he said, ‘You see those two guys? They cheat. We go to the first tee and he couldn’t have been nicer. ![]() “I played with him once,” says Bryan Marsal, longtime Winged Foot member and chair of the coming 2020 Men’s U.S. At Winged Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: “Pele.” He cheats like a three-card Monte dealer. You play the ball where it lies.” So when O’Donnell’s office colleague, the late Mark Eddis, came back after his first round with Trump, O’Donnell couldn’t resist asking.Įddis looked at him and threw his head back in laughter. “That’s the one part of the game that tells me what kind of person you are. “My dad always told us to respect the game,” O’Donnell says. O’Donnell’s dad was one of the founders of Sawgrass, the iconic Pete Dye golf course near Jacksonville, Fla. Jack O’Donnell worked with Donald Trump for four years as vice president of Trump Plaza Casino in Atlantic City. And the guy who cheats on the course is going to cheat in business, or on his taxes or, say, in politics. The guy who’s generous with compliments on the course is going to do the same at dinner. The guy who plays slowly on the course is going to be molasses in meetings. You cheat on your tests, you’re gonna cheat on your wife.” You loaf in practice, you’re gonna loaf in the game. I used to have this coach who told us, “How you do one thing is how you do everything. Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Adapted from Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly.
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