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On Christmas Eve, the White House released a statement saying Donald Trump would be working tirelessly during the day with meetings and phone calls. Hours later, CNN cameras caught Trump on the golf course. Reporter Kaitlan Collins shared pictures of his golf trip on Twitter, showing the president wearing a polo shirt and a red […]

On Sunday, Donald Trump took to Twitter to blast “fake news” that reported he had skipped out on the G-20 world summit so he could go golfing. As The Daily Mail reported, the president pushed back at reports that he made only a short appearance on Saturday before leaving the White House to hit the […]

The PGA Tour continued Friday with the second of four days at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. As reported by Golf World, participant Jon Rahm got visibly angry with one of the tour’s official camera operators, before proceeding to stand in front of them and block their view. The incident occurred Friday afternoon as […]

President Donald Trump left the White House last night to start a three-day vacation at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, according to a tweet by Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire. His getaway was schedule while negotiations over the new coronavirus relief bill remain stalled, with both Democrats and Republicans still battling over the recently-expired […]

Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to defend his regular rounds of golf, saying he is only hitting the links as his form of exercise and claiming that he is actually golfed less than his predecessor, Barack Obama. One former Obama White House alum and Democratic strategist says that Trump’s tweet a “grotesque lie.” […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to levy harsh criticism at President Donald Trump for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee hit the president on Twitter, decrying Trump’s decision to golf while frontline healthcare workers continue to deal with shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) like N-95 […]

Following days of protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department, golf legend Tiger Woods shared his response to the tragic event and the outrage that followed, per Golf Digest. In a statement shared online, Woods encouraged his fans and followers to continue their struggle […]

In 2014, the year before he declared his run for president, Donald Trump spent a reported $45 million in cash to buy the historic Turnberry golf resort in Scotland. But the source of the funds he used to purchase the golf course have always remained a mystery, and this week a member of Scotland’s parliament […]

Donald Trump has now made 29 trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort during his presidency after heading to the so-called Southern White House for the weekend. So far, as the HuffPost reports, the cumulative cost of traveling to his for-profit Palm Beach resort is costing taxpayers an astonishing $133.8 million. That is equivalent to 334 years […]

As protesters, reportedly affiliated with Iran-backed militia groups, shouted “Death to America” and stormed the United States embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Donald Trump visited his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, for the 12th consecutive day. After reportedly spending just 52 minutes there, Trump headed back to his Mar-a-Lago resort […]

Donald Trump frequently railed against President Barack Obama for his golfing trips, attacking Obama on Twitter for what Trump called reckless spending and inattention to his job as president. But now, with Trump about to start his fourth year as president, he is on pace to top Obama’s eight-year total for taxpayer-funded golf trips in […]

Saturday’s raid that resulted in the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was widely reported to have taken place at 3:30 p.m. EDT. That timeline, if accurate, would place Donald Trump on the golf course at the time of the raid, a Newsweek report appears to indicate. Pool reports on presidential daily activities […]

Donald Trump announced this week that he was canceling a planned trip to Poland so he could stay home and monitor Hurricane Dorian as it neared landfall with the United States. But on Saturday, as Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with leaders in Poland, Trump was instead monitoring his company’s golf course […]

President Donald Trump’s two nights in Ireland after a three-day state visit to the United Kingdom ended up costing taxpayers an estimated $3.6 million, Business Insider reports. The brief trip raised eyebrows abroad when the president declined to visit Dublin, the country’s capital, in favor of staying at Trump’s own golf resort in Doonbeg. Some […]

Former White House ethics chief Walter Schaub is tired of seeing Donald Trump playing golf, and he wants Trump to start picking up his own tab for it. The former Barack Obama White House official slammed the president this weekend by proposing what he calls the “Golf on Your Own D**n Dime Act of 2019,” […]

President Donald Trump met with a handful of schoolchildren while golfing at one of his Ireland courses, and the kids were suitably impressed with their rare opportunity to meet a foreign dignitary, The Irish Examiner reports. Trump has spent the past couple of days doing the same types of things that all heads of state […]

Donald Trump has spent an estimated $102 million in taxpayer money on golf so far in his presidency, a figure that is substantially higher than the earnings over the same time frame of Tiger Woods, the world’s highest-paid professional golfer, Above the Law reports. While golf is, of course, an expensive hobby to begin with, […]

Pastor Franklin Graham had put out a public call for pastors across the country to devote Sunday morning to pray for Donald Trump — but the president will need to get a report of how it went. Trump appeared to skip church on June 2 for his preferred Sunday morning ritual of hitting the golf […]

Buckingham Palace is coming up with plans to keep Donald Trump busy and away from crowds during his upcoming visit to the United Kingdom, which includes making sure he spends much of his time playing golf with minor Royal Prince Andrew, The Daily Mail reports. Back during his 2018 U.K. state visit, Trump made a […]

Donald Trump’s frequent trips to the golf course have cost taxpayers $102 million so far, including a $3 million tab for one golf trip alone, HuffPost reports. His golfing tab is three times what Barack Obama’s was at this point in his presidency. Using figures made available by the Government Accountability Office, HuffPost worked out […]

Donald Trump’s account on the United States Golf Association’s (USGA) website appears to have been hacked, and the jokester published four unflattering, triple-digit scores for the First Golfer, from three Trump-owned golf courses thousands of miles apart, USA Today reports. Any golfer who is willing to pay the fees can open up their own account […]

Donald Trump has long been accused of cheating on the golf course, so it came with quite a bit of skepticism when the President recently posted a score that even Tiger Woods would be hard-pressed to top. As Golf Digest reported, Trump recently posted a score with the U.S. Golf Association’s handicap service claiming that […]

Tiger Woods is fresh off his April Masters win, his first major title in 11 years, and his friends are crediting his girlfriend Erica Herman for “taming” the golfer and aiding his comeback, according to Page Six. “She’s been 100 percent supportive, when he was down with his health and all that stuff,” Arjun Atwal, […]

USA Today reports that President Donald Trump awarded Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Monday. The ceremony took place at the White House Rose Garden during the evening and marked the first time that an active athlete earned the medal. After Trump delivered 15 minutes of introductory remarks on Woods’ accomplishments as […]

President Donald Trump “cheats like a Mafia accountant” when it comes to golf, according to sportswriter Rick Reilly, The Independent reports. Reilly levels the allegations in his new book, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump. “He cheats at the highest level. He cheats when people are watching, and he cheats when they aren’t,” Reilly […]

The White House released a picture of Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh golfing together during the president’s long weekend vacation at his Florida resort, and Twitter is having a field day with it. Trump hit the links with the conservative radio host this weekend, just days after the release of a redacted version of the […]

Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday morning to complain about the costs of the Russia investigation. Just a few hours later, the president hit the golf course with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh in a trip that brought him to a milestone — $100 million in taxpayer costs for his golf trips. As The […]

Tiger Woods has done it again after 14 years. The 43-year-old star golfer won his first Masters title since 2005 on Sunday, April 14 beating his opponents in a nailbiting finish that many thought was impossible, Yahoo Sports notes. It was also his first major tournament win in 11 years. “I’m a little hoarse from […]

Donald Trump is close to hitting a major milestone that has social media buzzing — the $100 million mark for taxpayer funding spent on his golf trips. The president has taken plenty of heat for both his frequent trips to the golf course and for the costs involved. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump frequently […]

Donald Trump’s reputation on the golf course is taking a major hit. A new book from sportswriter Rick Reilly explores the president’s relationship with golf, his favorite physical activity. Trump has long been known for his golfing skills and his love of the game, as golf courses are also one of the biggest holdings for […]

Donald Trump hit the links with Kid Rock this weekend, and American taxpayers picked up the estimated $3 million tab. Just hours after Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump went golfing at his Trump International course in Florida during a weekend at his luxury Mar-a-Lago […]

A new book set to be released next week by an acclaimed sportswriter explores Donald Trump’s behavior on the golf course, and contains a strange anecdote about a recent incident in which Trump attempted to blame his loyal caddy, a former U.S. Marine, for a golf bag accident, according to a Newsweek account. The book […]

Donald Trump took to Twitter this week to share a copy of a check for $100,000 that he was donating from his presidential salary directly to the Department of Homeland Security, which critics point out represents roughly 3 percent of what taxpayers spend for each of Trump’s twice-weekly golfing trips. Trump had vowed before taking […]

Donald Trump has installed a room-sized, computerized golf simulator at the White House, allowing him to virtually play golf at hundreds of golf courses around the world, without ever leaving the comfort of the White House private quarters. As the Washington Post reports, an anonymous White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says that […]

The government shutdown is over — at least for now — and Donald Trump is heading back to the golf course for the 155th time in his presidency. Trump hunkered down in Washington, D.C., for several weeks amid the government shutdown, forgoing trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida that marked the majority of his […]

Tiger Woods offered “respect” to the office of President Donald Trump during an interview after the final round of the Northern Trust at Ridgewood Country Club on Sunday. ESPN reports that Woods was asked about his current relationship with President Trump. Woods noted that he has played golf with Trump since the 2016 presidential election, […]

It’s no secret that Donald Trump loves to golf, but exactly how much he has during his presidency may surprise many. According to Newsweek, the president has spent 150 days of his presidency at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. And since he has only assumed the office of the presidency for 582 days, […]

A man reportedly bit another man’s thumb down to the knuckle when a group complained about another group’s slow play, causing a fight to ensue at a Massachusetts golf course late last week. A 46-year-old man was charged in connection with the attack, The Boston Globe reported. Derek Harkins pleaded not guilty on Monday in […]

Bruce Lietzke, the winner of 13 PGA Tours, died of brain cancer on Saturday at the age of 67. Golf Digest reports that Lietzke was diagnosed with glioblastoma in April, 2017. He underwent surgery to remove the aggressively growing golf ball-sized tumor, followed by chemotherapy and radiation and did his best to return to a […]

When Donald Trump, a golf enthusiast, campaigned for president in 2016, he pledged that he would give up golf, saying, “I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go golfing, believe me. Believe me. Believe me, folks,” as CNN reported. But in fact, in his 554 days in office, […]

Tiger Woods, while loved by many, has not won in quite a while, and there are some out there who continue to gripe about the amount of coverage he gets. However, it is inarguable that Tiger is good for golf. Recently, Geoff Shackleford, a contributor to Golf World, pointed out to Sports Media Watch the […]

During a broadcast of Round 2 of the U.S. Open, millions of TV viewers were shocked when some “rough sex talk” could be heard in the background. Many first believed that it was some sort of radio interference, but the USGA has confirmed that the conversation took place between a couple of attendees. There are […]

Inspired by the 1980 golf-themed comedy Caddyshack, Bill Murray and his brothers opened the second Murray Bros. Caddyshack Restaurant today in Rosemont, Illinois. Located inside the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel, where the motto is “Eat, Drink and Be Murray,” the restaurant really is a family affair. In an interview with the Daily Herald, Bill […]

Sports fans will watch the Masters 2018 live streaming online and televised coverage on Sunday as the final round takes place. As the latest tournament at Augusta National was underway, Tiger Woods mania was gripping the golf world. Since then, Woods has slid down the Masters leaderboard, while several of the game’s newer stars are […]

PGA Tour professional William “Bill” Haas was injured in a horrific car crash that indirectly involved Luke Wilson, the brother of Owen Wilson, a Los Angeles police spokesman has said. According to the authorities, the collision involved a Ferrari and a BMW in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles at 6:31 p.m. on Tuesday […]

All things considered, Tiger Woods has had a rock solid last set of days. Albeit his game was not flawless during that span, his display at the Farmers Insurance Open turned some heads. The fact that Woods was able to turn heads is not just related to the golfer’s extreme prestige. On the other hand, […]

New Year’s Eve was apparently a time for Steve Cohen, a Democrat in the House of Representatives, to declare the shortcomings of last year. These weren’t his own shortcomings that he was confessing, he used this time to rip apart the personal life of Donald Trump. It’s one thing for a politician to chastise the […]

After a Thanksgiving holiday weekend that saw him play golf on a reported five straight days, Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C., where he was greeted with the lowest approval rating in history compared to past presidents 10 months into their first terms. Trump’s overall approval rating stood at just 38.4 percent after his 312th […]

Karen Fonseca went viral when a prominent sticker on her truck captured attention around the world, all the way from Fort Bend County, Texas. According to KHOU, Fonseca didn’t choose to go viral, but blames Troy Nehls for making her famous by placing the “F*** Trump” photo on his personal Facebook page. As a result, […]

President Donald Trump surprised many when he was spotted wearing glasses upon leaving the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, on Sunday, October 22, as reported by the Inquisitr. Trump’s visit to the golf club was one that did not show up on the schedule provided to the press by the White House. Instead, […]