It is clear I am on pain killers

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

It is clear I am on pain killers to be able to watch Trumps show on his course to be in Scotland. Lets talk about this to make feel better about watching the egomaniac.

[PThomas]

It is clear I am on pain killers to be able to watch Trumps show on his course to be in Scotland. Lets talk about this to make feel better about watching the egomaniac.

we are here for you Tiger

the story i always think about Trump is - i think it was in the book where Rick Reilly caddied for him and a bunch of others - that he took a gimme on one of the holes...AND IT WAS A CHIP SHOT!!!

[Mike Sweeney]

I just turned it off between yelling at Patrick on two post.  

Rumor is Trump has another meeting at Engineers tomorrow night which would be his first historic club in his portfolio. In the big picture, he is great for golf but that show and/or a lake on #18 at Engineers is too much to take. I hope the rumor is false, but I have pretty good source.

BC sucks, the Phillies lost and LSU just dropped from the National Championship race. Tough week.  

[Gary Daughters]

His involvement in golf aside I am beginning to think of Donald Trump as a national treasure, a parody in extremis along the lines of pro rasslin' and Married with Children.

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Michael, I did not think LSU of the right stuff to be in the big game. We were destined to lose any game our defense did not play very very good in. I  am now a west coast guy, so go Giants. BC is well everyones bitch it seems, even ND. I so would be disturbed if Trump bought Engineers. I am a little worried about Pat. That is one wild post.

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Paul, He gave a putt at  Royal Aberdeen in hiildren. Bunds words the best course in Scotland as soon to be the 2nd best. omg  Gary I would never put him as an equal to Married with Children, Bundy trumps Trump.

[Patrick_Mucci]

It seems like The Donald raised two great children, bright, responsible, successful, poised.

He must have done something right.

And, he seems to be good for golf and distresssed golf clubs.

Who knows, if they eliminate the deduction on mortgage interest, he may own every local course in the country.

[Bill_McBride]

BC sucks, the Phillies lost and LSU just dropped from the National Championship race. Tough week.  

You can always root for those overachieving, hard throwing, bench clearing Giants!   

[Dean Stokes]

I started a post on this subject not having read this one.......he makes me ill to my stomach.

Hey Donald, if you want to build a gregarious, opulent, overstated, gordy clubhouse in Palm Beach, do that....please do not think for one minute that is what is required in Scotland.

A 350 yard range with tees at both ends.....what a waste....how many resort guests stand out in the wind and rain and pound range balls?

He wants to cover up any building that can be seen from "the best golf course in the world". Does he not realize that is half the charm and beauty of playing the Scottish links.....you can see the B&B's and quite often half a village!

Just because his mix of egotism and narcissism works in LA, Palm Beach and New Jersey.....he thinks he can take that formula to Scotland and have it work........I very much doubt it but we shall see.....I am surely glad I am neither the architect or the superintendant on this one!!!!!!

[Gib_Papazian]

I played Trump National in Palos Verdes last year and to add insult to injury, actually managed to wade through his book "Think Big and Kick Ass" last week.

Here was my review of Trump National:

I'm of two minds about this because there is a time and place for everything in golf from Prestwick in a five club wind to Trump National at the other end of the spectrum. I struggle to separate the golf course in my mind from the overall "Trumposity" of this place. I make much of my living in NYC, so I am not exactly a California neophyte to this man's long shadow of self-aggrandizing drivel. Obviously, P.V. is a beautiful place, which gives it instant points in the aesthetic department. However, the round begins with a plaque on the first tee, enumerating how many millions were spent on the golf course, including the 18th, which they claim is the most expensive hole ever built. That plaque also crows that Trump National is the greatest course in California - which is enough to make a dog vomit. Yet, where this sort of ostentatious hyperbole would normally come off as over-reaching and vulgar, somehow we give The Donald a pass because even *he* does not believe his own bullshit.

The golf course is a jam job in some respects, with many terrace fairways that drop off on one side to oblivion. The rough is high enough in places to make the USGA blush, which is quite a trick. On one hand, it is necessary here and there to stop balls from rolling off the narrow fairways, yet there are some spots where it is obvious where form "Trumps" function and this really detracts in my mind to the overall strategic amusement of the golf course. Putting surface contours were good and conditioning was letter perfect.

The Donald was actually on property the day we were there and my overriding impression was that everyone from the head professional all the the way to the kid who cleans the carts was absolutely terrified - as if the the entire staff were contestants on The Apprentice.

His book was pure bullshit. A pompous, shameless exercise is self-congratulatory, bloviated pap that only a carny's mark would fall for. Good thing the book was given to me by a man with a sense of the absurd. Hey, think big and kick ass! Borrow a 100 million from the bank and now you got them over a barrel baby!

The Scots must be insane to let that obnoxious puffer fish anywhere near their sacred land.     

[Brian_Ewen]

It is clear I am on pain killers to be able to watch Trumps show on his course to be in Scotland. Lets talk about this to make feel better about watching the egomaniac.

Tiger
Maybe you should have shared what was making you feel ill, so we could talk about it.

Some of us are still amazed that you allow Trump on your telly , never mind to discuss golf !

[Martin Toal]

I played Trump National in Palos Verdes last year and to add insult to injury, actually managed to wade through his book "Think Big and Kick Ass" last week.

Here was my review of Trump National:

I'm of two minds about this because there is a time and place for everything in golf from Prestwick in a five club wind to Trump National at the other end of the spectrum. I struggle to separate the golf course in my mind from the overall "Trumposity" of this place. I make much of my living in NYC, so I am not exactly a California neophyte to this man's long shadow of self-aggrandizing drivel. Obviously, P.V. is a beautiful place, which gives it instant points in the aesthetic department. However, the round begins with a plaque on the first tee, enumerating how many millions were spent on the golf course, including the 18th, which they claim is the most expensive hole ever built. That plaque also crows that Trump National is the greatest course in California - which is enough to make a dog vomit. Yet, where this sort of ostentatious hyperbole would normally come off as over-reaching and vulgar, somehow we give The Donald a pass because even *he* does not believe his own bullshit.

The golf course is a jam job in some respects, with many terrace fairways that drop off on one side to oblivion. The rough is high enough in places to make the USGA blush, which is quite a trick. On one hand, it is necessary here and there to stop balls from rolling off the narrow fairways, yet there are some spots where it is obvious where form "Trumps" function and this really detracts in my mind to the overall strategic amusement of the golf course. Putting surface contours were good and conditioning was letter perfect.

The Donald was actually on property the day we were there and my overriding impression was that everyone from the head professional all the the way to the kid who cleans the carts was absolutely terrified - as if the the entire staff were contestants on The Apprentice.

His book was pure bullshit. A pompous, shameless exercise is self-congratulatory, bloviated pap that only a carny's mark would fall for. Good thing the book was given to me by a man with a sense of the absurd. Hey, think big and kick ass! Borrow a 100 million from the bank and now you got them over a barrel baby!

The Scots must be insane to let that obnoxious puffer fish anywhere near their sacred land.     

Ha. I have played TNLA too, and I recognise it from your review.

In some ways it is like Trump's hair. Expensive and no doubt made of the finest materials, but really doesn't fit properly and everybody is too scared to tell him.

[John Foley]

I just heard that he acquired Branton Woods in Fishkill NY. A very very good Eric Bergstol course that was public, but went private . Used to play there quite a bit before the switch over.