Donald Trump\u2019s love for golf is well known, as he owns several high-end courses around the world and often is seen teeing it up during his down time.<\/p>\n
But a recent claim by the U.S. president that this week\u2019s Ryder Cup in New York wouldn\u2019t be happening without him has rubbed some golf fans the wrong way.<\/p>\n
The biennial event \u2014 which pits teams of the top golfers from the U.S. and Europe against other \u2014 will be taking place at Bethpage Black on Long Island starting on Thursday.<\/p>\n
According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, however, it\u2019s only still set to take place because of an executive order preventing a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) strike, which was signed by Trump.<\/p>\n
The order reportedly establishes an emergency board to review the dispute between the LIRR and the employees\u2019 unions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis event is one of the greatest sporting events in the world and it would not be taking place this year without President Trump\u2019s help,\u201d Leavitt told a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump signed an executive order last week preventing a strike that would have crippled the New York City area ahead of the tournament and at the request of the five labour unions who all represent workers on the Long Island Rail Road.\u201d<\/p>\n
While a strike by LIRR employees would\u2019ve been problematic for the event, it would not have prompted a cancellation \u2013 something quickly pointed out by golf fans on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would still be taking place,\u201d one user bluntly put it on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s being very modest. Because at the very same moment when he was saving the Ryder Cup, he ended two wars and drug prices dropped by 1100%. Amazing,\u201d another user sarcastically commented.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless Trump either invented golf or was Samuel Ryder in a prior life, the biennial event alternating between EU and US has ZERO to do with the peacemaker that ended the \u2018Cambodia-Armenia War,\u2019\u201d a third user wrote taking a jab at a recent Trump slip of the tongue.<\/p>\n
At least one golfer at the event, though, was happy with Trump\u2019s efforts to \u201cprotect\u201d the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n
During her press conference, Leavitt had quoted Bryson DeChambeau of the U.S. team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the possibility of a strike threatened to disrupt transportation and attendance, President Trump stepped in and took the action needed to protect this world-class competition,\u201d DeChambeau said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to President Trump\u2019s decisive leadership, the Ryder Cup experience will be everything fans and the golf community deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump is scheduled to make an appearance on Friday at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s love for golf is well known, as he owns several high-end courses around the world and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[63795,85387,49,48,1376,622,25879,13261,82,16379],"class_list":["post-165115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-bethpage-black","tag-biennial-event","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-karoline-leavitt","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sports","tag-trump-international-golf-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}