{"id":22894,"date":"2017-02-23T07:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T07:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=22894"},"modified":"2017-02-23T07:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T07:26:02","slug":"rory-mcilroy-takes-penalty-strokes-after-golfing-with-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/rory-mcilroy-takes-penalty-strokes-after-golfing-with-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy takes penalty strokes after golfing with Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRory McIlroy takes penalty strokes after golfing with Donald Trump<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\n\tRory McIlroy takes penalty strokes after golfing with Donald Trump:-<\/strong> You’re Rory McIlory and you play golf for a living, so when the new U.S. president calls asking you to play a round with him, you say yes.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course you do. Why wouldn’t you? You don’t care that Donald Trump is the most controversial man on earth and the least-liked new president since polling began on that subject.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tYou’re a multi-millionaire golfer. Your taxes will be lower. And you’re from Northern Ireland, so no one can blame you for voting for him, because you didn’t, because you couldn’t vote.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBut because you spend a lot of time in the United States, Rory, and had a pulse throughout all of last year, you probably remember that Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, mocked a disabled reporter and went after Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan for days, among many other disgusting and distasteful antics.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThen again, that’s not your problem, right? It’s not like he has done anything really horrible, like cheating at golf.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tUm. Well, actually, he does notoriously cheat at golf, so much so that when rock star Alice Cooper was asked by Q magazine in 2012 to name the worst celebrity golf cheater, he replied, “I played with Donald Trump one time. That’s all I’m going to say.”<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWant a second opinion? “When it comes to cheating, he’s an 11 on a scale of one to 10,” Rick Reilly, a long-time sportswriting colleague, told The Washington Post in 2015.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tI can hear the Trump people now, can’t you? “Fake news! Alternative facts! The media are so unfair, and Alice Cooper is too.”<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tActually, the Trumpeters were really hoping that no one would ever find out about the round with Rory. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Sunday that Trump “played a couple of holes this morning,” adding she would not “disclose any of the others that were there.”<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShe had good reason to be evasive. During the campaign, Trump loved to criticize President Obama for playing golf, adding that he, Donald J. Trump, would be so different.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“I’m going to be working for you,” Trump said. “I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSo far, however, it appears Trump has all the time in the world to go play golf, visiting his two courses near his Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida a bigly six times in his first month in office.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tI guess when he said, “I’m going to be working for you,” he was talking to the nation’s greenskeepers, clearly an underappreciated voting bloc.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe White House hoped to keep the round with Rory a big secret, but that wasn’t going to happen. It wasn’t even dinner time Sunday when there was a leak, and the news got out.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother leak?! Reince!<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIt didn’t take long to find out who the awful person was who leaked this information.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was Rory.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe spilled the beans, telling the golf blog “No Laying Up” that Trump “probably shot around 80. He’s a decent player for a guy in his 70s.”<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTranslation: Trump probably shot 100.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWe know what Trump thinks about leakers, so it’s possible and even probable that Rory isn’t going to be invited back anywhere near Over-Par-a-Lago anytime soon. That could be a blessing in disguise, since he got an earful on Twitter from those who didn’t particularly like his weekend golf companion.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOne interesting thread centered on McIlroy’s contention that he “never wanted it to get political” as a reason why he didn’t compete at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. A Northern Irishman, he would have had to represent either Ireland or Great Britain in Rio.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, of course, he forever owns those four or five hours he spent with Trump, which probably is as good a definition of getting political as any.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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\n\tSource:- http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/columnist\/brennan\/2017\/02\/22\/donald-trump-golf-rory-mcilroy\/98272764\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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