Imagine him going talking to Congresspeople about some social spending program, for example:

"Dear subordinates: My spending program for the peons will help them aspire to become golfers, even though most of them will never even come close to an exclusive country club. Except perhaps as bus boys and dishwashers."

"merrily, are you really willing to put the country at that kind of risk, just because you think Trump will be easier to beat?"

The beauty part of being a poster instead of an IRL kingmaker (and there aren't many beauty parts to being a poster instead of an IRL kingmaker) is that I don't have to make that decision. My post is not country to put the country in danger. So, I decided to leave it as it was.

McCain, on the other hand......

-Al Czervik

just tell them it's a golf outing with celebrities and they'll round themselves up.

He has a bit on golf.

Interesting to see how this new PC world we live in affects his life moving forward. Like watching a slow motion train wreck.

"Make sure your brain is engaged before you put your mouth in gear." You ever hear that one, Donny?

Seriously, he's half right. Golf should only be played where grass grows without irrigation, and that rules out California, Arizona, etc. This would make it a rich person pastime, since people would have to fly from Los Angeles to Atlanta for a few holes of golf. This drought stuff is serious, my fellow citizens. If you live in Cali and like to golf, better move to Indiana or get a new hobby.

His courses and design scheme look tacky, much like everything he puts his name to.

He even pushed around Scottish courses that had their own history, and character to put more of his generic Trump Golf courses.

Trump Scotland is a good course, not North Berwick or The Old Course, but what is?

The members of his private courses like them.

Beside the Monster I will never play a Trump course. I mean in Scotland you are spouled for choice. And Dunbeg? There is a reason why I never played it before. That reason is Lahinch.

On balance, Trump is good for golf. He pays his employees a good wage, better than most in the game. No architect has complained about working with him, in public or on background.

I sided with the land owners, and others who were concerned about the environmental and country-wide impact of his style courses.

Reading your post, does not really change where I side in the issue, but does mitigate a little bit, my feeling of disdain towards Trump and his courses... Just a wee bit.

He built a true links course, of which there are few in the world. Anybody but Trump building it there would be few problems. If Mike Kaiser was building it they would throw him a party.

Trumps first few courses are not good. Artificial waterfalls, over the top grooming, flowerbeds etc. His last few really embrace the modern aesthetic of more natural golf.

Tom Doak gave Trump scotland a 7. That is a good number.

Only time I was ever golfing was when the 1%er ex-boss decided to take the folks in the office out to play a round when he was looking in to selling a computer system to the golf course. Rented equipment and greens fees were outrageous.

The average round is probably 3 - 4 hours, depending on the course and how busy it is. If you think about it, $50 is pretty cheap for a half day in the great outdoors. Comparable to or less than what you will spend per person at a major league baseball game, for example. And there are many options for cutting the cost a lot more - down to about $15 dollars for nine holes on a week night, for example. Also many courses have senior and junior discounts which will keep the cost to under $30 for 18 holes walking.

As for equipment it is quite possible to pick up a good used set of clubs for under $100. Or borrow a set from somebody - a lot of golfers have a spare set which they have upgraded from. Starting out, it is not the equipment which matters, it is the form. You really don't need anything else. You can wear regular athletic shoes, and gloves are cheap if you think you need them.

Not a poor man's game but certainly not only a rich man's game either.

Backpacking in Tok Alaska is the Great Outdoors. Golf, notsomuch.

I love visiting the big cities, but I can only take so much concrete and steel.

Since his hat tossing, he has completely flummoxed the repub party and the msm!! Try as they might to focus attention on HRC's emails and her other "dastardly deeds", he has totally sucked the air out of the room!

And then today the news came out that he had donated more to her past campaigns than to anyone else, and that cinched it for me.

The Donald is Hillary's secret weapon!!


Now to just figure out... WHY??

On the golf course that played horribly

and those aging few under the white robes...

Golf is great exercise if one can afford the greens fee.

Like all the courses (and the people who work there), and the golf stores, and the equipment manufacturers, and the networks, and the people like me who love playing the game?

the house is paid off in 2 years, so I might just celebrate and buy some lessons.

kids to the game regardless of their socio-economic background.

The sport has been slowly dying for years, primarily as the result of some ridiculously elitist attitudes which he totally exemplifies.

Just like he thinks he is a world authority on tourism, etc.

All because he daddy left him enough money to invest in hotels, golf courses, etc. Most of which he promptly lost, by the way, and then some. He has managed to survive as a businessman thanks to gullible investors who are taken in by the Trump name.

sounds like it to me, too.

Seriously - this is Olympic-grade trolling.

i think at heart, he is an internet troll on a grand scale

Did Fuckwad mean sport?

Dunno.

"Elitist" was a dirty word in 2012. The GOP threw that at Obama with many a sneer. Now it's OK?

Aarrggh, do I hate these people!

That's how the people I know play golf.

but nobody put me in charge.

you know it's going to be terrible, but you just cannot look away.

or throw the ball. . .

Not that I care about golf, because I don't.

Stupidity is now going to be officially measured in Trump Units, i.e., Jeb Bush only hits300 kiloTrumpa, but Santorum, he's good for a megaTrump.

paycheck against what Trump makes it two weeks in a golf match against him. Poor guy vs. rich guy.

(I worked at a golf course in my youth and pretty much have a scratch game.)

What a surprise.

'Chinga tu Pelo'

I get it. I enjoy games and gaming. I mean, I have played many versions of "put the ball in the hole" but none off them have brought me the total satisfaction and oneness with the universe they seem to instill in others.

Maybe I am just obtuse? I do love playing games. Dodge ball, Baseball, Kick the Can, Chess, Tennis, Asteroids, Scrabble, Basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, Snooker, Freeze Tag. It's fun to play games. Hellish to watch mind you, but fun to play.

For others, it is life itself. Heck, our highest paid College and University educators in each state are game teachers so they take it quite seriously.

Don't know. I'll just keep waiting. Maybe I'll get the bug.

I mean, was his father so vulgar that the mucky mucks wouldn't let the family join their social circle or something? Why is this second-generation rick kid act like such a nouveau riche climber? Why does Donald Trump feel so insecure about whether or not he appears to be wealthy?

they are rich.

'golf should be only played by rich white men'