{"id":166033,"date":"2025-09-24T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166033\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:10:12","slug":"could-donald-trump-help-united-states-win-golfs-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166033\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Donald Trump help United States win golf\u2019s Ryder Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler has said that he expects President Donald Trump\u2019s planned appearance later this week at the Ryder Cup to boost the United States squad.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Americans will face holders Europe at the Bethpage Black course in the biennial golf showdown only days after a memorial service for young Republican leader Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt has been a tough few weeks for our country with some of the stuff that has been going on, and to have our president here and for us to represent the United States of America, albeit being in a golf tournament, is extremely important for us,\u201d Scheffler said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited to be on home soil with the home crowd and we\u2019re ready to get this tournament started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump, a well-known golf fan, is scheduled to appear during the first day of competition on Friday, although exactly when is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"World No 1 Scottie Scheffler said the president was a skilled confidence booster. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c872a48d-10d5-4878-8358-22c0afa37c29_c9b106ae.jpg\" title=\"World No 1 Scottie Scheffler said the president was a skilled confidence booster. Photo: AP\"\/>World No 1 Scottie Scheffler said the president was a skilled confidence booster. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US captain Keegan Bradley evaded the question when asked if Trump might speak to the US squad for a motivational boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler has said that he expects President Donald Trump\u2019s planned appearance later this week at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[85754,49,48,73453,1376,588,3456,622,15752,51218,32229,3747,22013,24552,13261,1974,82,772,9754],"class_list":["post-166033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-bethpage-black-course","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-donald-trump","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-golf","tag-keegan-bradley","tag-luke-donald","tag-patrick-cantlay","tag-pga-tour","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-republican","tag-ryder-cup","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-xander-schauffele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166033","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=166033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}