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demmiblue

(36,855 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:15 AM Jul 2020

Rare golf report on Pres Trump. "I've never seen him play this well," says @LindseyGrahamSC...

Rare golf report on Pres Trump. "I've never seen him play this well," says @LindseyGrahamSC, who played golf with the president last weekend at his Virginia club. He told @foxandfriends, "He beat me like a drum. It was amazing. He shot 74. If I could beat, him I would.”




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Rare golf report on Pres Trump. "I've never seen him play this well," says @LindseyGrahamSC... (Original Post) demmiblue Jul 2020 OP
I call bullshit. Buckeyeblue Jul 2020 #1
I call distraction. fleur-de-lisa Jul 2020 #23
Clearly they have nothing better to do C_U_L8R Jul 2020 #2
! demmiblue Jul 2020 #5
Instead of cheating to get a hole in 1, he now automatically wins without even swinging n/t Claustrum Jul 2020 #3
Actual video Nevilledog Jul 2020 #36
What was his score on the back nine? GreatCaesarsGhost Jul 2020 #4
"170 for nine holes" - j d Salinger C I T R PCIntern Jul 2020 #24
74? Those are the strokes he counted. Frustratedlady Jul 2020 #6
This guy shot a 74? Please Botany Jul 2020 #11
Like with COVID-19 testing, if you don't count strokes, you can par (or birdie) every hole. sop Jul 2020 #20
Please proceed, Senator. Hugin Jul 2020 #7
Did he drop a zero there? Newest Reality Jul 2020 #8
It's like Trump has a gun to his head liberalmuse Jul 2020 #9
That's the kind of lie you make someone say AleksS Jul 2020 #10
That's exactly what this is. How embarrassing for a US Senator. SammyWinstonJack Jul 2020 #19
Trump to Putin... lame54 Jul 2020 #41
Yup. And donny's trickling it down. AleksS Jul 2020 #42
No way Trump shot a 74 PJMcK Jul 2020 #12
"No way Trump shot a 74" .... he can't even hit a simple flop shot ... a freshman on a high school Botany Jul 2020 #22
Fuck off you fucking ass kissing sycophant. SoonerPride Jul 2020 #13
Talk about tone-deaf. n/t Laelth Jul 2020 #14
He cheats. Straw Man Jul 2020 #15
Trump has played 10% more golf in 4 years.... ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2020 #16
It is comparable to Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned. CentralMass Jul 2020 #17
Perhaps Lindsey Graham is trying to communicate Cirque du So-What Jul 2020 #18
74? LOL. Why do they feel the need to lie about EVERYTHING? Goodheart Jul 2020 #21
Lindsey's lying about Trump's golf game so he'll campaign for him in SC this Fall. sop Jul 2020 #25
Well he's had a ton of MOTHERFUCKING PRACTICE since he's been in office! jcgoldie Jul 2020 #26
To be fair, Lindsey *enjoys* being beaten like a drum!1 UTUSN Jul 2020 #27
74? Still far behind Kim Jong Il's reported 38-under par score of 34 (with 11 holes in 1) . . . Journeyman Jul 2020 #28
I've seen him hit the ball BGBD Jul 2020 #29
Sounds like Lindsey has been emulating the inner circle of North Koreans PA Democrat Jul 2020 #30
I shoot 74 every round too. Sometimes even better. Bantamfancier Jul 2020 #31
Tears in his eyes I guess! Dread Pirate Roberts Jul 2020 #32
74 my ass. moondust Jul 2020 #33
And another dictator shoots a hole in one on every hole Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #34
How could LG tell cyclonefence Jul 2020 #35
He shot a 74 year old on Fifth Avenue? Midnight Writer Jul 2020 #37
Precursor to his hole-in-one moment lame54 Jul 2020 #38
The Only Way It Shot 74, Was If... ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 #39
Have some dignity and quit groveling to Trump Lindsey. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 #40
He uses the Kim Jong Il scoring system jmowreader Jul 2020 #43

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
2. Clearly they have nothing better to do
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:18 AM
Jul 2020

Than to play with their little white balls.

Meanwhile people are out of work, sick and dying.
Oh and the Russians are commissioning kills on our soldiers.
Yup, nothing better to do.

liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
9. It's like Trump has a gun to his head
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:20 AM
Jul 2020

this Is gross, especially when Americans are dropping like flies. Who gives a flying fuck about Trump’s golf game aside from Trump?

AleksS

(1,665 posts)
10. That's the kind of lie you make someone say
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:20 AM
Jul 2020

Just to show them that you own them.

Trump is just humiliating Lady G at this point.

Trump: “Lady G, tell everyone what a good golfer I am. Tell them how I beat you.”

lame54

(35,292 posts)
41. Trump to Putin...
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 03:14 PM
Jul 2020

"...but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful (pause) in his denial today."

Putin marched him out in front of the whole world to say that

That's ownership

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
12. No way Trump shot a 74
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:21 AM
Jul 2020

Assuming the course was a par-72, that's 2-over par meaning Trump made nearly perfect shots and putts all day long. Since he is a well-documented cheater, the score is simply not realistic.

Graham has become even more of a joke than he was in the past. It would be a political miracle on a grand scale if Trump, McConnell and Graham were defeated in November. Our country m8ght have a real chance of recovery if those three jack holes were voted out.

Botany

(70,510 posts)
22. "No way Trump shot a 74" .... he can't even hit a simple flop shot ... a freshman on a high school
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:48 AM
Jul 2020

... golf team would make that shot 19 times out 20.


Straw Man

(6,625 posts)
15. He cheats.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:22 AM
Jul 2020

It's anecdotal, but supposedly he is so fond of kicking the ball to improve his lie that the caddies have nickname him "Pelé."

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
16. Trump has played 10% more golf in 4 years....
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:23 AM
Jul 2020

Than Obama played in 8 years. Obama cost the US $96 million over 8 years. Trump has cost us close to $150 million of not more.

Obama averaged 33 rounds of gold a year. How many rounds has Trump played since January 2017?

Cirque du So-What

(25,939 posts)
18. Perhaps Lindsey Graham is trying to communicate
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:28 AM
Jul 2020

that his free will is held hostage to a madman, and like a POW, he’s blinking SOS in Morse code.

Naaah! He’s just a remora that attached itself to a new host when the old one died.

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
26. Well he's had a ton of MOTHERFUCKING PRACTICE since he's been in office!
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:54 AM
Jul 2020

But its still as obvious a lie as McEnbarbie saying he actually reads shit that doesnt have his name in every sentence.

Journeyman

(15,035 posts)
28. 74? Still far behind Kim Jong Il's reported 38-under par score of 34 (with 11 holes in 1) . . .
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 11:15 AM
Jul 2020

Gonna have to get much better at that dick-tatering, Spankee. Ya just don't yet understand, it's not the lying, it's the audacity.

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
29. I've seen him hit the ball
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 11:21 AM
Jul 2020

He probably is a guy who can shoot in the 90s or high 80s on a decent day.

That's not bad, but there is 0 chance that he's a legit scratch golfer. I don't see why anyone feels the need to lie about such trivial things. I've played golf for years and I'm just not that good. I can shoot in the mid to high 90s. It's nothing to be upset about. I don't take it too seriously and I've never put in any real effort to be better than that.

Bantamfancier

(366 posts)
31. I shoot 74 every round too. Sometimes even better.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 11:27 AM
Jul 2020

But of course I always walk off after the 12th green.

Nobody said i had to finish the last third.

moondust

(19,986 posts)
33. 74 my ass.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 11:34 AM
Jul 2020

Not athletic. His golf swing reveals that he's a dork. Very unlikely that he has EVER broken 100--in reality.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
34. And another dictator shoots a hole in one on every hole
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 11:35 AM
Jul 2020

how long before we hear that the OrangeAnus matches Kim Jong-Il with a streak of 11 hole in ones during a match.

"These stunning pictures reveal for the first time the golf course where North Korea ’s leader 'scored 11 holes-in-one in his first-ever and only ever round'.

The photographs of Pyongyang Golf Course - just a 30-minute drive from the capital - show it boasts a surprisingly well-maintained clubhouse with a shop for equipment and snacks.

It’s where Kim Jong-il - current leader Kim Jong-un ’s father and predecessor - boasted he landed 11 holes-in-one during his very first round of golf in 1994."

ProfessorGAC

(65,057 posts)
39. The Only Way It Shot 74, Was If...
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 03:11 PM
Jul 2020

...it shaved 2 shots per hole. A 6 becomes a 4, a 7 becomes a 5.
Even then, I don't see any number in the 70s.
No way, with that jerky swing and jabby putting stroke, it shot in the 70s.
I shoot in the 70s. My swing looks like a touring pro compared to PINO's.
On Edit (because I forgot): PINO claimed to be a 3 handicap. That tells me that a 74 would not be unusual. But, li'l Linz says he never saw him play this well. Can't be both!

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
43. He uses the Kim Jong Il scoring system
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 03:30 PM
Jul 2020

As it turns out, Dear Leader's caddy was marking using a "relative to par" score system. If he had shot par on a hole, a 0 would have been written. 1-over-par gets a 1 recorded, and anything beyond that was a 2.

I don't think I would like to golf with Fearless Leader. I might get a phone call late the night before the match: "Hello, Mr. John Smith who lives at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Los Angeles, CA with a beautiful brunette wife named Staci, a five-year-old son named Joseph, a three-year-old daughter named Melissa and a pair of Siamese cats that never go outside...we've got two things to say to you: the president never loses a golf game, and tell Staci to start wearing long pants instead of those skirts she likes, they don't flatter her."

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