Donald Trump took up golf at Fordham University, and in his 2005 book, The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received, he wrote: “For me and millions of people – men, women, young and old around the world – golf is more than a game. It is a passion”.
The real estate developer started building and buying golf clubs and resorts in 1999. The Trump Organisation now owns 17 golf clubs with several more under construction.
Trump, according to Jack Nicklaus, “loves the game of golf more than he loves money”. Trump’s golf portfolio of properties has cumulatively racked up losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Nicklaus has played with Trump and rates him “probably the best player” of the Presidents that he has golfed with.
“Trump plays pretty well,” the 18-time Major winner has said. “He plays a little bit like I do. He doesn’t really ever finish many holes. But he can hit the ball, and he goes out and plays and just enjoys it. But he’s won several club championships. He can play.”
‘Several’ is understating it according to the man himself.
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During a Thanksgiving 2025 video call with U.S. military members, President Trump said: “I know a lot about golf. I’ve won 38 club championships, and I don’t get to practice much. I won one last year.”
“I won a club championship at a big club, beating a 27-year-old kid. I said, ‘You know, I’m decades older than you.’ But I said, ‘The fairway doesn’t know how old you are as you walk up the middle and he’s in the rough.’ And, uh, I’ve been a good golfer over the years.”
“You know, club championships are our Majors, you know that, most people can’t play in them, they won’t. We’re talking about no strokes or anything else.”
“So I’m a very low handicap, and I’ve won 38 of them legitimately, every one legitimately. It has to be legitimate because you have a lot of people following you with club championships.”
Some may quibble at just exactly how many people, if any, come out to watch a club championship. Others at Trump’s contention that he does not practice much, considering he had played golf on 76 of the 312 days of his second presidency up to that point.
Others may wonder why Trump felt the need to say…
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