Hello,
As this article goes, I have nothing to say about his treatment or view of women. To me that's for each of you John Q. Citizens to evaluate - use this article as much or as little as you wish to find your truth.
In the main, I find little "balancing" effect in the portrait carved here. I know first hand the worker-speak of those who receive(d) a paycheck from Trump...the larger that paycheck, the more fulsome the praise. I've known a pro, a caddiemaster, a superintendent, a f/b manager and a handful of other staff at a couple of Trump-named clubs, and while they all have a thesis/conclusion of "he does things first class" - the whole body of what they describe in between, day-in, day-out, is a petulant tyrant around whom everyone walks on eggshells, who reverses decisions and micro-manages when he is on property. He is said to give out memberships to people and never tell the staff, then bellow when the new initiate is unrecognized...he is said to voice his displeasure at some deficient ornament, project or staff practice, then go ape-shit when the bill or the delay is presented to him upon its implementation, disavowing that he ever so directed.
On purely GCA merits, I say this: The courses I've seen, played and heard tell are very jokey, very faux, very expensive, very earth-moved, very rock-cut, the kind of courses where the six sets of tee markers are nicer and almost as expensive as the teeing grounds, where the cart paths are as beautiful as the fairways, where the water fountains and benches are gorgeous and the "signature" holes always rendered with some element of fake scenery baked-in. The courses of his I know best are entirely an aerial game, still larded with trees, have many holes with OB or hazard on one side or both, and the kind of course most on here (as I know you) would only want to see a couple of times, but could never ever play regularly as a member. There's no charm or subtlety to them, they're mostly 18 sets of audacious, one trick pony paths where deviation from the program means double or worse. At Trump Briarcliff (the first or second of his chain) the signature hole is the Par 3 13th, a 175-215 yard semi-blind shot to a-near island green set in a basin of a 100 foot waterfall (which is so loud that you can't hear somebody saying "that's good")...If you were leading the US Open I would recommend you push out onto the safety of the 11th fairway and tack on from that side, make a 4, and get out of there.
In a unintended parallel ...that's perhaps HRC's strategy for these last 3 weeks.
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