Trump Has Another Miracle Golf Victory at His Own Course

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This reminds me of when Rick Reilly tore into Trump for cheating at golf.

Rick Reilly is a sportswriter, author and well known golfer who has had the misfortune (but also the amusement) of sharing the fairway with Trump.

He even wrote a book about it titled, "Commander in Cheat."

In the book he describes his experience playing golf with Trump and details the various ways that Trump cheats on the golf course.

He's also a pretty funny guy.

“I’ve always said golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a guy,” Reilly joked during his appearance. “And what it reveals about this guy is that he cannot lose. He has to win and he will do anything to cheat.”

"And I know because I played golf with him and he took seven mulligans. He took a 'give me chip-in.' I’ve never even heard of a 'give me chip-in,'" he added.

Reilly describes how Trump racks up tournament wins at events he's not even present for, and how Trump often claims that he's won a tournament even though he wasn’t “in the state when the tournament [was] played."

“What he does [is] he just calls in and goes, ‘I usually beat that guy, give me the trophy,’” Reilly alleged.

He goes on to say:

“And I know this because when I play with him, he goes, ‘You know what I do to win these championships, don’t ya?’ and I go, ‘Please tell me. Give it to me.’ And he goes, ‘Anytime I buy a new course, I play the first round all by myself and then I declare myself the club champion,’” Reilly continued. “So that’s what kind of guy this is.”

Trump will also "win" championships by using an alleged score from a round of golf he played earlier in the week, instead of actually participating in the game.

Reilly also says that Trump cheats by constantly moving the ball to a better position and by taking extra strokes without counting them. Reilly tells stories of Trump flagrantly bending the rules of golf, kicking his ball back onto the fairway, and outright lying about his scores.

In his book, Reilly also tells a story about how Trump claimed victory against his own wife after playing a round with her and announcing publicly that he won, and this is despite the fact that Melania was reportedly playing really well.

Small tangent, this reminds me of a previous incident that was reported when Trump was on a ski trip in Aspen with his then wife, Ivana Trump.

Ivana is reportedly a much better skier than him, and when she passed him on the slopes, he got so aggravated that he took off his skis and walked off the trail in frustration.

he could not take it, that I could do something better than him, Ivana recalled.

Onlookers even described Trump at the time as "shivering" with anger, and not from the cold.

Now, when it comes to Trump's actual game, Reilly says:

Trump has “never won a championship at a course he doesn’t own and operate” despite claiming that he's won 23. The author said Trump has played at stricter courses like Pebble Beach and Lake Tahoe and has never been in “the top half.”

He has some pretty funny anecdotes too, like how Trump always uses a "turbo-charged golf cart that goes three times as fast" as his opponents so he can have time to move the balls around before his competitors catch up.

Trump is also known infamously for driving his golf cart onto the greens, which is a major breach of protocol.

Reilly also said this:

“One time in L.A. he was playing $50 a hole with these three guys. He hits it in the pond. They see the splash. By the time they get there, [the ball’s] in the middle of the fairway, and they’re like, ‘What the f— Donald,’ and then he goes, ‘It must have been the tide,’” Reilly shared.

In another incident, Trump was seen visibly throwing broadcaster Mike Tirico's ball off the green, claiming it was an "accident."

Reilly also talks about what he calls "the Trump bump" where Trump tries to subtly move his golf ball to a better position when he believes no one is looking. But this move has become widely and infamously known among golfers who have played with him.

One pretty notable anecdote from Reilly's book includes an incident where Trump cheated against a 12 year old boy during a charity golf event.

The boy was the son of professional golfer, Ted Virtue, and Virtue decided it would be fun to bring his kid with him to play at the event.

Apparently, during their round, Trump hit his ball into the water on the 16th hole, but Trump's caddy—likely at the behest of Trump—put the ball next to the hole when they reached the green, claiming it was Trump's ball. However, when Virtue's son recognized the ball as his own, Trump dismissed the boy and went on to win the match.

Trump has also cheated against professional players like Tiger Woods, and when Reilly asked them about it, they would always answer something to the effect of, "I wanted my own story about Trump cheating."

Here are some pretty funny and interesting videos of Reilly talking more in depth about Trump's history of cheating at golf.

This may all seem rather ridiculous, but don't let it detract from the underlying theme here, one that Reilly himself expands on, and a disturbing truth about Trump's nature as a person:

"He exaggerates his golf scores and his handicap for the same reason he exaggerates everything. He has to. He exhibits all the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. People with his disorder have no conscience about it. He has no sense of morality about things. He lacks empathy towards others. He’s a very ill man. He doesn’t get that other people have rights and feelings. Other people just don’t matter to him."