{"id":725585,"date":"2026-08-03T06:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725585\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T06:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:53:14","slug":"trump-denigrates-fellow-golfers-as-lacking-talent-as-he-boasts-about-winning-trophy-on-his-own-course-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725585\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump denigrates fellow golfers as lacking \u2018talent\u2019 as he boasts about winning trophy on his own course"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump boasted<\/a> Sunday about winning another club championship trophy at his golf club <\/a>in New Jersey, asserting that he won because he has \u201ctalent\u201d <\/a>that his competitors don\u2019t possess.<\/p>\n

On Truth Social, the president posted a video of his \u201cwinning shot\u201d at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster that landed him the club championship trophy in the Super Senior and Senior categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won with a score of 70, and am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I\u2019m given very little time to practice, because I\u2019m focused on many other things. It\u2019s called TALENT, and I have it, and they don\u2019t!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

While the president is an avid golfer and often gloats<\/a> about his skills on the course, some have accused him of cheating<\/a>, which Trump denies.<\/p>\n

According to a video posted online<\/a>, Trump won the Super Senior Men\u2019s Club Championship, which is generally the category for men 65 years and older, as well as the Senior Men\u2019s Club Championship, which is typically for men 50 years and older.<\/p>\n

\"AA screenshot from President Donald Trump’s latest Truth Social post shows his ‘winning shot’ at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey (realDonaldTrump \/ Truth Social)<\/p>\n

Last year, the president won the same Senior Men\u2019s Club Championship tournament, which the White House later posted about.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Trump also won both Senior and Super Senior championships in 2023 and announced it in a similar Truth Social post: <\/a>\u201cFor some reason, I am just a good golfer\/athlete – I have won many Club Championships, and it is always a great honor!\u201d<\/p>\n

But years of cheating allegations, dating back to before Trump\u2019s first term, have haunted the president\u2019s golf game. <\/a><\/p>\n

In 2016, actor Samuel L. Jackson accused the president<\/a> of cheating at golf. In 2018, LPGA player Suzann Pettersen was reported as saying the president \u201ccheats like hell,\u201d<\/a> though Pettersen later denied making the comments.<\/p>\n

Sports writer Rick Reilly even wrote a book on Trump\u2019s alleged cheating in 2019, titled \u201cCommander in Cheat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 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,\u201d Reilly wrote, referring to the Brazilian soccer star.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn online tracker of Trump\u2019s golf outings estimated the president has spent 124 of his 559 days in office golfing (Getty)<\/p>\n

Last year, the cheating allegations were reignited after a video of Trump playing golf in Scotland went viral<\/a>, appearing to show Trump\u2019s caddy walking ahead of the president and dropping his ball closer to the fairway. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the New York Times reported <\/a>that the late Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump, had insinuated Trump cheats at golf during a 2022 grand jury testimony.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSome people say you may outdrive him, but you\u2019re not going to outdrive his caddy. It is what it is.\u201d Graham said when asked whether the president cheats at golf. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725585","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=725585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}