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Demovictory9

(32,464 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:09 PM Mar 2019

Trump has plaque in his golf club listing him as reigning champ of a tournament he never played in

https://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/golf-magazine-trump-won-a-tournament-he-never-played-in-1456102979880

Golf Magazine is reporting that the President has a plaque in his golf club in West Palm Beach stating that he won the club's annual golf championship last year. But he never actually played in that tournament.

https://www.golf.com/news/2019/03/10/president-trump-club-championship-did-not-enter/

Yes, Trump was president of the United States for all of 2018.

Yes, Trump turned 72 last year, which would be an impressive age to win even a senior club championship.

But there the plaque is, identifying Trump as the reigning club champion at his spectacular Trump International course.

His most recent win brings Trump’s club-championship haul — all won at clubs bearing his name — to an even 20. That includes senior and super-senior titles, too.

But to be precise about it, the plaque on his locker is two letters short of accurate. Trump is not actually the men’s champion at the club. He’s the co-champion. While that distinction is not found on his locker, it is made elsewhere at the club.

As for Trump’s path to No. 20, it was not conventional.

Originally, a man named Ted Virtue, the 58-year-old CEO of a New York investment firm called MidOcean Partners, had the 2018 club championship title all to himself.

Virtue, a member of Winged Foot and Westchester Country Club in New York and Lost Tree and Trump International in South Florida, won a series of matches en route to his title. He played football and basketball at Middlebury College in Vermont in the early 1980s and his golf is more athletic than poetic. His index is listed as 3.3 and his 20 most recent scores, all from 2018 and this year, range from 73 to 83. Trump has posted only two scores since 2016.

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Trump has plaque in his golf club listing him as reigning champ of a tournament he never played in (Original Post) Demovictory9 Mar 2019 OP

Of course he does. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #1

Of course he will. pandr32 Mar 2019 #5

Emperor Nero used to compete in the Olympics. He always won of course. marylandblue Mar 2019 #2

Trump's BFF Kim Jung-Un wins everything. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #3

I wanna know how much plaque he has in his arteries!😎 cornball 24 Mar 2019 #4

And don't forget the brain plaque Blue Owl Mar 2019 #10

This is the most "Trump" thing I've seen D_Master81 Mar 2019 #6

He has a plaque at his golf course on the Potomac "commemorating" a Civil War battle Tanuki Mar 2019 #7

That is next to his BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #8

That is so 3rd millennium BC NotASurfer Mar 2019 #9

I doubt he legitimately won any of those Awsi Dooger Mar 2019 #11

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,762 posts)

1. Of course he does.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:12 PM

Mar 2019

When he doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize again this year he'll probably have a fake one made up to display in his golf resorts.

pandr32

(11,594 posts)

5. Of course he will.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:36 PM

Mar 2019

In the meantime he has his many of his pictures photoshopped to make him appear slimmer and his hands a little bigger. Seriously. And then there is that six-foot portrait his charitable foundation paid $20,000.00 for--enhanced bulge and all.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

2. Emperor Nero used to compete in the Olympics. He always won of course.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:13 PM

Mar 2019

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,762 posts)

3. Trump's BFF Kim Jung-Un wins everything.

Reply to marylandblue (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:25 PM

Mar 2019

He learned to drive when he was three and he never has to go to the bathroom. Beat that, Spanky.

cornball 24

(1,478 posts)

4. I wanna know how much plaque he has in his arteries!😎

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:33 PM

Mar 2019

Blue Owl

(50,448 posts)

10. And don't forget the brain plaque

Reply to cornball 24 (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 09:57 PM

Mar 2019

Enough of that to fill a skull...

D_Master81

(1,822 posts)

6. This is the most "Trump" thing I've seen

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:44 PM

Mar 2019

Even pointless BS like club golf championships at his resorts he has to create fake personas for himself to cover for the loser he is.

Tanuki

(14,919 posts)

7. He has a plaque at his golf course on the Potomac "commemorating" a Civil War battle

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:47 PM

Mar 2019

that he completely fabricated.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-civil-war-monument/

?w=599

BigmanPigman

(51,613 posts)

8. That is next to his

Reply to Tanuki (Reply #7)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:59 PM

Mar 2019

Person of the Year Time Mag cover (that was a fake) and the plaque commemorating The Bowling Green Massacre.

NotASurfer

(2,153 posts)

9. That is so 3rd millennium BC

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:17 PM

Mar 2019

If you are the new king or pharaoh, proceed to erect monuments claiming credit for accomplishments you didn't achieve, and deface anything mentioning whoever actually did accomplish that thing

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)

11. I doubt he legitimately won any of those

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 11:42 PM

Mar 2019

Club championships are supposed to be several rounds of stroke play or many rounds of match play in bracket format. Caliber of play is very high and cheating is not enabled.

It would be simple for Trump to manipulate who played and who didn't play, or what the criteria would be. Or just make it up, which is most likely.

I've seen him hit shots on the range at Doral. That is not club championship caliber at any decent course. Recently I walked the LPGA event in Orlando with celebrities and athletes also playing. Now those are club championship caliber golf games, like Jack Wagner at Bel Air. Trump couldn't hang within 3 shots per side.

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