Trump and Golf – amazing balls and deals on more than 18 hole

Make Molvani believed that he hit Donald Trump. The President and Chief of Staff of the White House played the golf game at Trump Club Pepsster in 2019, and Mulvani had risen with one strike with three holes left.

“I slapped him on the shoulder and joked with him,” Mulvani said to the BBC.

President Batikh has made two of the next three holes and hit Molvani by two.

Molvani, who was working in the White House for Trump for three years in his first term, says he played the golf with, or in the group behind him, the president is about 40 times and did not overcome the man 21 years. “Just crushing the soul” is how he described it.

The golf game was a common activity for many modern American presidents, but had no relationship with this sport like Trump, Who is in Scotland this weekend To open a new Trump course near BalMedie in Abeerdeenshire.

For presidents like Barack Obama and George W. Bush, the golf game seemed to be a conversion of the office burden. For the current president, the golf game is a commercial project, and an opportunity to communicate – as Molfani tells – a severe competitive task. He says the president focuses on the game on the corridors and vegetables, focuses on the game and has a little tolerance with bad shots or slow playing.

“In fact, if you are slow, you will not be invited back and you may fail to the cycle,” said Molvani.

Kevin Brown, the British golf journalist, witnessed this direct when he played with Trump in the BalMedie tournament in 2012. He said he was taking the scene in the second hole, when one of the other players in his quarters told him that Trump asked whether he could “move.”

“It was more focused, heading down, extending forward from us,” Brown said. “Most of the time, he was playing his own game and clearly thinking about the things he had to do.”

After the tour, Brown spoke to Trump for about an hour about his relationship with the golf. He said that the president’s passion in the future was clear.

“It is a nuts around the golf,” he said. “He knew the background and history of the game. He was impressive.”

Trump, a real estate developer that turned into a political, played the golf since his university studies and bought his first golf property, the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach Florida, in 1999. Trump Golf currently owns 11 courses in the United States and three in the United Kingdom, runs several others and has new plans in Amman, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Qatar.

Golf clubs are valuable for Trump-not always profit. According to the files with the British government, the BalMedie tournament lost 1.83 million dollars (1.35 million pounds) in 2023-in the eleventh consecutive in a row. Turnberry, on the other hand, was reported about $ 5 million.

Trump sometimes clashed with the local authorities for the use of lands and sought to restrict the construction of wind turbines from the coast of his property.

While his American sessions hosted major professional championships, he has long wanted Turnberry, which he will visit this weekend, to be the site of a British championship open in the future. The historical course hosted four prestigious competitions, but Trump did not shine the property in 2014.

According to Brown, Trump is attracted to the outstanding golf properties due to the position they offer.

“He loves quality and lineage,” he said. “It comes to attracting the right people – that is, dirty wealthy businessmen with very deep pockets.”

For example, one round of the golf game in Turnberry costs about $ 1350.

The golf game has always been important to the elite, where the wealthy and the strong can conduct commercial business and make contacts in an exclusive environment – and even recently in the exclusive white and male cases.

For businessman Trump, it was a way to the type of useful links to build his real estate empire. He gave him a way to communicate with American politicians and foreign leaders – even if he promised in 2016 that he “will not have time to play golf” if he was voted at the White House.

Early of his first presidential term, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Trump presented a golden golf club. The two will later play five rounds together – with a friendship that lasted until the assassination of Abe in 2022.

The ordinary golf partners in Trump included two close political allies, such as Sanator South Carolina Lindsey Graham, and the Republicans who sought to formulate new communications, such as the 2016 presidential rival Rand Paul.

Paul said after a 2017 tour with the president: “He is a slightly better golf player than me, but we spent a fun time,” adding that the two mostly focused on the golf – but they also discussed Trump’s tax policies.

In March this year, Trump Golf said with Finnish President Alexander Stop in West Palm Beach, and Trump said in the Trump club championship that the two men won. Stop later says they talked about the war in Ukraine, Russia and global security.

“In Finnish history, it is very rare for the Finnish president to have spent a lot of time with the President of the United States, whether physically or on the phone or correspondence,” said Stop to Canadian broadcaster CBC News.

It is the type of access and influence, which made the starting point with Trump a desirable prize for those looking for a presidential audience.

“Anyone who deals with Donald quickly understands that everything about him is transactions,” said Professor David Kai Johnston of the Rochester Institute of Technology, who has covered Trump for decades.

“If you are a company president or a nation president, you are either trying to reduce any possible damage that may be caused to you through his butter or its size on something if you are not sure.”

Even returning to the White House, foreign leaders tried to formulate a golf connection at a friendly reception. When South African President Cyril Ramavusa visited the Oval Office in May, the President gave a golf book in South Africa and included golf professionals Erney Elles and Retiqu in his national delegation.

This did not help much, as the meeting was transferred An extended confrontation with the land confiscation policies in South Africa.

While this drama played in front of the press and direct television cameras that were collected, Trump may see the use of his most amazing golf matches, as it provides him with a well -removed meetings from the eyes of intruding journalists.

Representatives are accompanied by Trump on all his general movements, but when the president is on the golf field, they remain far away.

“He has time outside the eye of anyone to deal with people,” Johnston said. “Of course, the heads of companies or countries, and likewise, will take advantage of the opportunity to stay away from any spotlight.”

The president’s tendency to privacy over links also means that there are conflicting novels about the quality of the Trump Golf player. It boasts that dozens of club championships – all of this in the courses he owns – including five this year alone.

Sports journalist Rick Riley, in his leader in his book 2019, wrote in fraud: How the golf explains Trump, that the allegations of Trump’s championship are “too much” so much that he loses all credibility.

He explains what Trump’s tendency to cheat, including moving the ball to better locations in the cycle and taking many Molighan – is usually allowed to restart a stroke without any punishment, after Michit.

“It is notorious fraud,” Johnston said. “I spoke to someone who played a round of golf with him, he told me that he took six Moligan on one hole.”

According to Molvani, who says he never seen Trump’s fraud, the president may use the golf as a means of communication, but 18 hole with the president is not related to work, government or politics.

“This is golf,” he said. “Although this seems separate, golf players know what I mean. Trump was a golf lover long time before he was president. He will be after a long time, too.”