Rory Answers The President's Call!
No Laying Up podcast co-host Rory McIlroy reports to NLU that he teed up with President Donald Trump Sunday.
McIlroy expedited his return to play a week early for the Trump International round that also included ISM agent Nick Mullen and Trump friend Rich Levine. More intriguing than the President is the golf with Mullen, who works for the agency that first represented McIlroy (photo on right is not the full foursome).
Score was not kept but McIlroy said the President played well:
“He probably shot around 80. He’s a decent player for a guy in his 70’s!”
The White House initially said the President only played a few holes, then clarified that it turned into a full round, reports the AP's Catherine Lucey.
**Luke Kerr-Dineen rounds up the criticism directed at Rory McIlroy for teeing it up with President Trump.
Reader Comments (56)
V.Lind, you need to look past Trump - he's just the guy who is the centre of the media's attention. Whilst he fiddles and the press listen, his associates are burning down the city. Classic flypaper strategy.
Why do the lefties always have to drag politics into it, lefties are never happy about anything, win, lose, sunshine, cloudy, never happy
http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-of-protecting-trump-secret-service-2017-2
http://www.myusualgame.com/2017/02/17/me-talking-about-donald-trump-in-japanese/
01.5.2017 | Seth
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Add Rory to the list.
As to golf, word is he's been out 6 times or 20-25 % of the days he has been in office.
We have not had a good president this century. Let's all be honest.
Bush was absent more than any president in history, and the banks, 911,the fake war''reasons, were all under his ''watch.
Obama inherited a to of issues, and did pretty well the hand he was dealt.
Trump, like Bush, was not legally elected, and is proving to be insane- not for his ''politics'', but the man is actually insane. One needs to realize that a 70 year old man playing golf 2 days in a row will probably need a full day of restt/recovery, so between off 1/2 on Friday travelingf, and resting all day Monday, he is working 50% of the time- not even a 24/7 or a 5/8 guy. Forget about draining the swamp- how about stopping the iflow filling it up.
And the wall is Trump's Folly- he has never even seen the frigging border. Keep that crap out of Texas. They cant' even man the airports properly.
I'm 67, and with health issues, I look great, but I owe it all to salt and vinegar, I don't worry, and I forgive- not wanting to be burdened down with any hate.
So once I get a bit more one, another surgery, was supposed to be on Thursday, but I am very anemic, and it was postponed. pfft! Anyway I hope to play 2 times a week.
I am too much in pain to be able to go like you, and arthritus (sp) has invaded me in the last couple of years. It's always something!
Here is to your health, Colin. Cheers, Yall.
Pasaplayer- H scares me to death. I know his type- looks good when you see him, but is in bed or a hot shower when you don't. Look at that ''Doctor report'' -- it is like his tax returns -bullshit non existent.
Peace & prosperity, Pasaplayer and pronto!
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I not a huge Trump fan by any means but given the choices that we had I still believe that we're in better hands with him than we would have been with Hillary who proved many times over that you couldn't believe anything that she said. Let's give him a chance and you can go to the polls in 4 years and vote against him if you're not happy with the direction he's taking our great country.
I sure wish this site could stay focused on golf. So much more fun to pick on Tiger!
BTW...last night in sweden
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWEDEN_RIOTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-02-21-04-33-36
back to golf. these people do not have to love the man in the office but they can respect it. do you think if obama called and asked to fill out his foursome they would do it....yes.
Amen Jupiter, AMEN!
Yes, Europe has had its share from the aggressors too. And, like (the rest of) America, coped and gone on. Europe also does not have the aggravator-in-chief annoying the baddies with practically every utterance. Bans on a religious group, the one-state solution -- what next?
The Boston Marathon went on despite...nightclubs are still open. The Ryder Cup will take place at Golf National and if the Americans lucky enough to make the team have the guts, and the palates, they can eat great food in Paris. If they are the usual shower who make rare forays overseas, they will have a McDonald's in the team room.
Hawkeye, you're gonna have to do better than quote some politician. I don't care whether he's foreign or not, I just try to deal in facts. I think you're digging quite a hole for yourself, especially considering Trump's speech was in Brevard County, not Orange.