Bryson DeChambeau’s course vlog with US President Donald Trump had 40,000 views when I pressed play, five minutes after it was published.
As soon as DeChambeau’s X account posted the video’s link I was straight to YouTube. This was a double US Open-winning star playing a Texas scramble with the first former President of America to be convicted of a felony.
“To be clear, this is about golf and giving back to our nation’s veterans, not politics. A few weeks ago I reached out to both parties’ presidential campaigns and @realDonaldTrump was down for the challenge,” DeChambeau wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
“It is an incredible honour to be able to enjoy a round of golf with any sitting or former president, and all have an open invitation to join me for a round of Break 50 anytime.”
Trump owns Turnberry, arguably the best golf estate in the UK, and because of that, it has no foreseeable future on The Open Championship Rota while he is politically active. It last hosted The Open in 2009 when Stewart Cink beat Tom Watson in a playoff.
Trump’s political career has been nothing short of astonishing and controversial, but these words could describe his career in golf which was never better documented than by Rick Reilly, the legendary American sportswriter who published the book Commander in Cheat in 2019, detailing Trump’s alleged history of misbehaviour on the golf course.
In the book, Reilly details several remarkable claims of Trump’s golf antics such as allegedly throwing US broadcaster Mike Tirico’s ball into a bunker after finding a par 5 green in two shots, owing his own golf course’s six-figure sums, supposedly kicking his ball out of the rough on numerous occasions and lying about his handicap. It’s quite the account of claims from Reilly.
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It’s impossible to watch the 56-minute course vlog without this context of Trump’s extraordinary involvement in the sport, which has now reached another chapter in a video with this year’s US Open champion and arguably the most box office star in golf.
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I couldn’t land on one highlight of this vlog, so I’ll do my best to run through them and perhaps you can decide which was the best.
The content of the video is simple. DeChambeau and Trump attempted to break 50 off the forward tees at his own Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey, using the scramble format. It’s something DeChambeau has tried with figures such as Sergio Garcia and influencer Paige Spiranac but has failed to do so thus far.
During the vlog, Trump revealed that the most impressive celebrities he’d ever met were Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson who he said honeymooned in Mar-a-Lago in Florida where one of Trump’s vast homes sits.
He consistently reminds viewers that Turnberry has been voted the best golf course in the world while close to 10 buggies followed this unlikely duo for every shot they hit. Bedminster hosted an event in the LIV Golf League in 2022 to which DeChambeau now belongs.
Donning a red cap that read ‘Make America Great Again’, Trump told DeChambeau he got his eighth hole-in-one in front of four-time major winning legend Ernie Els while playing in Palm Beach, with PGA Tour veterans Ken Duke and Gene Sauers watching on as well.
DeChambeau asks Trump if he plans to expand his golfing portfolio, already spanning across the USA, Scotland, Ireland, Indonesia and Oman, but the President said, “No, I could never compete with what I have,” citing (you’ve guessed it) Turnberry as an example and Aberdeen as another.
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Trump played flop shots, he holed long putts, he split fairways, and he fatted wedges. And you can’t leave out his jerky, unique follow-through when making a stroke with his putter. Each shot came with a red, white and blue-coloured shot tracer attached.
DeChambeau hit some incredible blows throughout the vlog and Trump was visibly astounded by the monstrous tee shots and particularly, his holed eagle putt on the 17th. On the par-3 2nd, Trump hit it to some 12 feet from the pin to which he said, “Do you think Biden could do that?”
The clip wouldn’t have been complete without a jibe at his political foe. To describe DeChambeau’s latest YouTube entry as surreal doesn’t do it justice. I don’t think words can describe it.
A multi-major winning icon of the game jumps, runs and bounces around like a junior golfer during an evening round in the summer holidays, laying on the floor, gleaming with smiles and squealing at each near miss – all in front of one of the most recognisable and influential figure on Earth who has re-entered the Oval Office in 2024.
That’s my best shot.
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