{"id":301519,"date":"2025-12-06T03:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301519\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:16:12","slug":"donald-trump-makes-more-astonishing-claims-about-his-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301519\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump makes more astonishing claims about his golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tYou know you\u2019re never far away from an all-time quote when the President is talking ball\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n<p>(For clarification \u2013 we are talking purely on golfing terms here. Take the other stuff to Today\u2019s Politician.)<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, we were treated to a clip of 45-47 holing a walk-off chip-in during a round with five-time major champ Brooks Koepka, NHL GOAT Wayne Gretzky, and Fox News host Bret Baier.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SEE IT: President Trump sinks an impressive chip shot on the golf course with LIV golf star Brooks Koepka, NHL legend Wayne Gretzky, and Fox News host Bret Baier. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QVjTKk1hFR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QVjTKk1hFR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1994918923876053254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The President is never more than a few sentences from boasting about his prowess on the links.<\/p>\n<p>And that was once again the case while addressing members of the US military during a recent video call.<\/p>\n<p>In Trump\u2019s defence \u2013 three words you don\u2019t hear every day \u2013 he was asked about his game by one of his audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to be right around scratch or better,\u201d the 79-year-old replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI beat a plus-three. That\u2019s three below par. So I\u2019m a good golfer. I know a lot about golf. I\u2019ve won 38 golf championships and I don\u2019t get to practice very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Trump posted on social media that he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/general-news\/president-donald-trump-wins-club-championship-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">successfully defended his club championship crown<\/a> at his West Palm Beach resort in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClub championships are our majors,\u201d he added, before reiterating for those in the back: \u201cI\u2019ve won 38 of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Step aside Jack and Tiger, there\u2019s a new sheriff in town.<\/p>\n<p>Then, his third eyebrow-raising claim in as many sentences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery one of them,\u201d he said, was won \u201clegitimately\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt has to be legitimate because you have a lot of people following you with club championships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which sounds exactly like something someone who won those tournaments in less-than-legitimate ways might say.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the 38-time major champion is no stranger to being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/general-news\/new-donald-trump-cheat-scandal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused of cheating<\/a> on the golf course. There was even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/general-news\/president-donald-trump-wins-another-club-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whole book written about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/didtrumpgolftoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">those keeping track<\/a>, since returning to the Oval Office, Trump has now spent 79 days on the golf course. More than 11 weeks. Out of 45. A entire quarter of his second term.<\/p>\n<p>But, remember, he doesn\u2019t get to practice very much.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know you\u2019re never far away from an all-time quote when the President is talking ball\u2026 Donald Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-301519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}