U.S. Presidents 🤝 Golf pic.twitter.com/D1KwFndkRg— Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) September 25, 2022
Posted on 09/27/2022 1:18:32 PM PDT by conservative98
Golf Digest is taking a lot of heat for its recent tweet ranking U.S. presidents by their golf handicaps.
The tweet is being blasted, most especially because it awarded Donald Trump its top score of 2.8 while handing Joe Biden the number two slot at 6.7. Detractors went wild claiming that neither of the two ratings could be correct.
Many commenters on the magazine’s tweet blasted Donald Trump as a “liar” and used that as a basis to doubt the 2.8 handicap rating:
Of note, sports writer and serial fabulist Rick Reilly also chimed in on the magazine’s scores, writing, “Wrong on Trump (10 at best). Wrong on Biden (no chance). Wrong on Nixon (a 15 at best and only took the game up to suck up to Ike), wrong on Taft (way worse) and wrong on FDR (won many REAL amateur events b4 polio).”
In another reply, Reilly doubted Biden’s 6.7, saying, “Biden WAS a 6 a long long time ago.”
While Reilly’s corrections of the Golf Digest scores may not seem to be too far off the mark, it is hard to believe anything he says after he has been caught outright lying and getting facts seriously wrong in his past reporting.
Many commenters on the magazine’s tweet blasted Donald Trump as a “liar” and used that as a basis to doubt the 2.8 handicap rating:
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U.S. Presidents 🤝 Golf pic.twitter.com/D1KwFndkRg— Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) September 25, 2022
Buzzard Roost • 38 minutes ago
Let’s have a good old fashioned golf off. Biden vs. Trump. Winner is the President!
If you remove Bill Clinton’s right foot then that 12 handicap becomes a 40
I have a feeling Trump doesn’t regularly cheat like O’bunghole does
I have often heard Trump is an excellent golfer. I have no doubt the best of those listed.
And the NeverTrumpers from Crazy Bernie’s home state.
Nice.
Clinton would routinely take mulligans on the fairway. Said a lot about his lack of character.
I never thought of Trump as much into golf.
He owns courses, but he never seems to be playing much.
Have to like that about him. And he’s a teetotaler. I like both those characteristics.
Reagan didn’t really play golf either. I like that.
Meh, Kim Jong-Il once got 18 holes in one.
There is no way that the demented fool has a 6.7.
Roosevelt golfed? As President?
Thought he was in a wheelchair.
Now rank them by horsemanship.
such a dumb thing to scream about...yet they are.
I play golf. I’ve seen Trump’s swing. He is.
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