![]() ![]() He’ll cheat you on the course and then buy you lunch.” ![]() A chip is a gimme? Trump’s pretty good off the tee but he chips like Edward Scissorhands. That was the day he took the only gimme chip in I’ve ever seen. So we make a day for me to caddie for him but I turn up and he didn’t have anybody to play with. He wanted me to write a column about him but I had this idea of writing a book where I caddie for famous people. Look!’ She pulled one of my columns out of her purse like this is a set up. Marla Marples was his wife then and she said, ‘He’s your biggest fan. He comes over and says, ‘It’s Rick Reilly, the greatest sportswriter in the world.’ There’s always an angle with Trump. “The first time I met him we were playing in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. I would do anything to get that interview but if I had to play golf with him again, and it wasn’t for an article, I’d never do it. If he says, ‘Can you be here tomorrow for an interview?’ I’d be on the red eye. “I liked him as a writer because he’s a crazy fabulist who tells lies so big they can float in the Macy’s parade. Reilly’s anger towards Trump is made more interesting by the fact they have known each other for so long and that he admits he once almost liked the billionaire. A chip is a gimme? Trump’s pretty good off the tee but he chips like Edward Scissorhands It really pisses me off.” He took the only gimme chip in I’ve ever seen. Golf is an honest game but this guy leaves a big ugly orange stain on it. There are referees in every other sport but in golf, if you’re 200 yards away, you can kick the ball and get away with it. “It’s terrible he should cheat at golf which is the one sport where we self-regulate. Just when it was becoming cool with Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler we get this fat bozo cheating his ass off.”ĭr Lance Dodes, a Harvard psychiatrist, tells Reilly that Trump is “a very ill man” who “exhibits all the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder.” Reilly sighs. I love golf and he has set the game back 30 years. I hate what he’s doing to kids at the border. Most of all I hate how stupid he’s making my country look. Kicking your ball so often the caddies call you Pelé? I so hate that. ![]() Wearing old dockers two sizes too small for him? Give me a break. “You’re mostly laughing,” Reilly says, “but at times you’re crying – how did this happen? As a golfer he really offends me. It’s rattling good fun which also depicts the startling duplicity of the president as a golfer. Reilly, the former Sports Illustrated columnist, has written a book called Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump. And golf reveals a lot of ugliness in this president.” “I always say golf is like bicycle shorts. “D onald Trump is the worst cheat ever and he doesn’t care who knows,” Rick Reilly says as he describes a man he has known for 30 years. ![]()
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