This is part of a series that Bryson produces in which he and a two-man scramble partner try to break 50 from the red tees.
Trump and Bryson didn’t succeed, but they came as close as you can get, shooting exactly 50 – 22 under par. Whatever you think about Trump, you can’t deny that the man can play golf. I have not seen anyone else his age play that well. He looks ancient, he’s way overweight, and there are moments when he barely seems able to catch his breath, but he comes to life and does the job when he has a club in his hands.
Bryson has amazing power. At one point, he drives a short par four with a five wood, getting the ball 27 feet from the cup. And that was into a breeze.
Aren’t there a whole lot of first hand accounts talking about Trump cheating at golf? I feel like this is more like when Kim Jong Un shot 38 under par.
Same. I’ve heard that staff at his club call him Pele because he’s good with a foot wedge. Footage can be got. If this came from Trump, then it is almost certainly a lie. (But what *kind* of lie?)
I can’t comment on what he does in other games, but he played like a boss in this exhibition. I was skeptical, but I watched the entire match, and he is for real!
Was this live or on tape?
Huh, I stand corrected
I don’t know whether he cheats. But I watched that whole video, and that old geezer can play some golf. His drives were completely identical, all under control, 210-220 with a slight fade. He flubbed a couple of wedges, but was excellent in general at approaching the pin, even landing some short irons inside of Bryson’s ball. He doesn’t have a soft putting touch, but he sank quite a few putts. In a short stretch in the middle of the round, he got a birdie and an eagle on his own ball, without using any of Bryson’s shots.
His unassisted eagle can be seen starting around the 37:25 mark.
Trump was known as a good athlete at Fordham. On the school teams he only played two classic “rich white guy” sports – golf and squash (if only we had had a polo team!), but everybody tried to recruit him for their intramural teams because he was so good at most sports. His athletic ability was for real, although he has exaggerated it from time to time.
“His drives were completely identical” hmm …
btw, how can someone who is supposedly knowledgeable re: soooo many topics, be totally unaware re: Trump cheating at golf? Seriously!
Google Rick Reilley Trump cheats ~ mega YT vids about Trump cheating on everything going back to before there was dirt. 😮
Trump whining re: everything under the sun 24/7 notwithstanding. Indeed, analyzing Trump is not rocket science, eh.
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump ~ Rick Reilly etc etc etc
Yielding back the balance of my time …
Google … 10 astonishing claims from the book detailing president trumps cheating at golf. Not that this list would shock anyone.
I’ve read the claims, but I’ve never followed up on the details. I always just assumed the claims were mostly true because exaggerating his ability, cutting corners, ignoring rules, and being full of self-aggrandizement is just who he is. On the other hand, I also assumed that the knocks on him were exaggerated, because ripping on him is what people do.
In following up on this today, I found that the cheating reports are much worse than I expected. I kinda figured that they were just talking about improving his lie and kicking the ball a little, but according to this report, he has truly done some major league cheating.
Of course that doesn’t mean he isn’t also good – just never as good as he claims. I play with a lot of good golfers in their middle to late 70s, all of them in much better physical condition than Trump, and that video shows that he’s a better golfer than anyone I play with. That doesn’t make him Ben Fucking Hogan, but it certainly makes him far better than I expected.
I watched it a few weeks ago. Bryson mentions in the video that Trump’s short game – putting – needs work. And it does, he’s too wobbly on it. The cheating rumors are probably about that. Trump probably takes a lot of gimmes/Mulligans. But man can he drive for a 78 year old.
I noticed that he takes too short a backswing on his putts, then tries to speed the clubface up to compensate. That’s clearly the weakest part of his game, but it’s not that bad. After all, he made a bunch of good putts, so that style obviously works for him! The rest of his game is really solid.
Hmmmm. Disbelief provisionally suspended, but only because the alternative is watching golf, which: no.
To be fair, all of the skepticism is Trump’s own doing. If he wasn’t such a prolific liar who insists on surrounding himself with sycophants, then perhaps I’d be intrigued. But as it is, I simply cannot suspend my suspicions.
Put it this way – let’s hypothetically say Trump had a bad day and totally flubbed this. Do you honestly believe this video would have seen the light of day?
Yes, it would still have aired. It’s not Trump’s program. “Break 50” is a regular show from Bryson, and the Trump episode was something like episode 9. It would have been better viewing and would have gotten a zillion more views if he had sucked. In addition, you’d be seeing hilarious clips of his suckitude every night from Seth Meyers and Colbert, just like that “Biden stumbling up the stairs” clip or the “Trump demonstrating how to jerk off two guys at once” clip.
The show basically shows every single shot from both players during the match. Trump did hit some poor shots and they were not cut from the broadcast. Of course they were not laughable shots, just sub-par. There’s was nothing Seth could riff on.
Moreover, the show doesn’t flatter Trump at all. It reveals him as a fat, feeble-sounding old man who seems to struggle to speak or to catch his breath while merely walking and playing golf, which is not the most physically demanding sport.
He’s a fat, wheezing geezer. He just happens to be a fat, wheezing geezer who can strike a golf ball quite well for an old coot.
A man who claims he offered 10k troops to ‘Nikki Haley’ on Jan 6 is a man who has likely cheated at golf ever since he first held a club in his hand. A man who cheats on his pregnant wife with a porn slut, then tries to cover it up to the tune of 34 felonies, is a man who cheats at golf. He’s as trustworthy a golfer as Goldfinger.
Apologies to Goldfinger …
You silly people, don’t you know Trump is playing three dimensional golf while everyone else is playing putt-putt?
Indeed! 😛
AI is quite impressive these days with video…of course the demographic group mostly represented here wouldn’t know.
The AI work certainly makes golf easier to follow. In the past it was an impossibly bad TV spectator sport because a golf ball basically disappears from camera range after it is hit, so the only action one could follow from the player’s perspective was on the green or on certain par threes with optimal vantage points. (Televised golf tournaments have always been a lot of switching from one green to another.)
When they wanted to show long shots in the past, they needed many cameras, and we had to trust that the ball launched on camera one was the same one we saw bouncing on camera three, and not a rerun from 1978.
The AI tracking, combined with ever-improving cameras, allows spectators to follow full shots from the player’s perspective, revealing the height and even the curve of the ball’s trajectory. I actually enjoy watching Bryson’s videos, and I’ve always avoided TV golf.
(He has also tried the “break 50” challenge with several other golfers, including John Daly, Sergio Garcia, Paige Spiranac, and a long-drive champion. They have yet to break 50. He came the closest with Trump, but Bryson was totally dialed in during that round, so Trump gets only a small portion of the credit. Bryson narrowly missed some putts that could have taken that round down to a 47 or 48 with some luck.)
You had me at “Paige Spiranac”.
OK, did Trump look like a porker? If so, maybe real. Then, there’s the Elon/Donald “Stayin’Â Alive” video, if you want an example of ‘footage can be got’. NOT to be watched on a full stomach though.
When Trump was being escorted off after his ear nick, a view of the back of his head revealed just how bald the SOB is. He essentially has a mullet with an industrial strength comb over. Gene Keady weeps in jealousy when he sees the magnificent sculpture on Trump’s head.