Donald Trump claims victory in club tournament despite missing first round

Donald Trump claimed credit score for a membership championship regardless of reportedly not competing within the event in the identical time parameters as everybody else.

Trump, the forty fifth president of the USA, claimed victory within the Senior Membership championship at Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in Palm Seashore over the weekend.

“An ideal honor to have gained the Senior Membership championship at Trump Worldwide Golf Membership, among the best programs within the Nation, in Palm Seashore, Florida,” the previous president wrote on his social media platform Fact Social. “Competed towards many effective golfers, and was hitting the ball lengthy and straight. The explanation that I announce this on fabulous TRUTH is that, in a really possible way, it serves as a bodily examination, solely MUCH harder. You want energy and stamina to WIN, & I’ve energy & stamina – most others don’t. You additionally want energy & stamina to GOVERN!”

Nonetheless, the Daily Mail reports that Trump didn’t compete within the event similtaneously everybody else. Whereas the event was slated for Saturday and Sunday, Trump was attending the North Carolina funeral for the vlogger Diamond.

Nonetheless, in accordance with the report, “rivals arriving for day two of the competition on Sunday morning have been shocked (though not precisely shocked) to see his identify on the high of the leaderboard with a five-point lead over the in a single day chief.”

The outlet defined that Trump shot a stellar spherical on Thursday. Trump counted this spherical, which was a rating of 40 utilizing the Stableford methodology, which supplies one level for a bogey, two for par and three for a birdie. This rating was 5 factors higher than the highest mark from Saturday’s spherical.

A Trump spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to Day by day Mail’s request for remark.

Trump has lengthy confronted allegations of bending the rules on the golf course.

“To say ‘Donald Trump cheats’ is like saying ‘Michael Phelps swims,’” longtime sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote within the e-book “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump”, which got here out in 2019. “He cheats on the highest degree. He cheats when individuals are watching and he cheats once they aren’t. He cheats whether or not you prefer it or not. He cheats as a result of that’s how he performs golf … in the event you’re enjoying golf with him, he’s going to cheat.”