Trump, Biden spar over golf handicaps
as they try to convince voters they are
not too old for the presidency
Fox News,
by
Brooke Singman
Original Article
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino,
6/28/2024 9:47:00 AM
President Biden and former President Trump faced off on the CNN presidential debate stage Thursday night, but suggested another showdown--this time, in an unlikely setting. The golf course. During the CNN Presidential Debate, CNN moderator Dana Bash presented the age Biden and Trump would be at the end of a potential second term. Biden would be 86. Trump would be 82. Biden defended his age, saying he "spent half my career being criticized about being the youngest person in politics. I was the second youngest person ever elected to the United States Senate, and now I’m the oldest. This guy is three years younger and a lot less competent."
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/28/2024 9:59:57 AM (No. 1745222)
Talking about competence - Trump was facing two hostile parties, a rebellious bureaucracy. Yet in four years he delivered
- An economy growing at over 8% (before COVID)
- A 1.9% inflation
- Energy independence
-Lowest recorded unemployment for Blacks and Hispanics
-A sealed border with zero illegal migration
-Contained Russia and Iran
-A peaceful Middle East with Abrham Accords
-NATO members delivering hundreds of billions which they were cheating on for over fifty years
- China on the defensive on trade.
Has Sleepy Joe smelled the coffee and taken a good look around him lately?
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Stupid headline. Does Brooke report directly to Paul Ryan?
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FJB couldn’t even get his story straight on that lie - he went from a 6 to an 8 both of which are outright lies.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 6/28/2024 10:18:58 AM (No. 1745246)
FTA —- "I got my handicap, which when I was vice president, down to a six . . . “
So, when Biden was somewhere between age 64 and 72, we are supposed to believe he lowered his golf handicap to a six. According to the USGA, a six handicap is approximately in the 96th percentile.
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When you’ve cheated or plagiarized on everything your whole life like Biden, it’s not hard to imagine you cheated on your golf scorecard.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 6/28/2024 10:50:37 AM (No. 1745275)
Correction, I looked at the wrong chart. According to the USGA, for male players, a six handicap is in approximately the 89th percentile. But the USGA also says the average male handicap is 14. Famous golf instructor, Harvey Penick, who saw thousands of golf swings, estimated the true average was 24.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 6/28/2024 10:53:34 AM (No. 1745278)
Seriously doubt Joe has anything close to a 10 handicap or we would have heard about it a LONG time ago.
Remember, when they say "that's a gimme" it means you still need to count that stroke that they gave you not that you actually made the put.
(had a manager like that who never counted that stroke but who was going to say something?)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/28/2024 11:25:30 AM (No. 1745291)
Medium handicap players don't usually become low handicappers in old age unless they spend hours a day on the golf course, impossible unless they're retired, or have no responsibilities. Or unless they turn in scores they didn't shoot in search of what is called a "Hollywood Handicap." Hollywood Handicappers are absolutely the easiest type of player for a hustler to beat out of every dollar in their wallets. Just clean 'em out. (Smart cheaters carry an 18-handicap but play to an actual 3. They're still cheaters, but the Hollywood Handicapper who can't hit his butt cheats himself!) Out at the golf club--I'm a member of Three Jack National where Club Pro Guy is head honcho--we know who reports his actual score, and whoever else just writes what he wants everyone to think he can shoot. Biden is probably a cheater on the golf course. Clinton was, too. Obama? With his powder puff move, there's no point in hoping to be good someday. Ain't happening.
Incidentally, PDJT doesn't have what I would call a good looking swing, but nevertheless has excellent tempo in his swing, and hits the ball solidly most of the time. If I am giving professional advice on the swing--I'm qualified to do that--I would stress tempo as being as important as swing fundamentals, especially after one understands the swing fundamentals. When I competed, I wasn't thinking mechanics--that's for the practice tee--I tried to be relaxed and on tempo.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/28/2024 11:31:13 AM (No. 1745300)
No, faux, biden was trying to prove he's not too old. Trump was trying to prove he can play some golf. We got it if you didn't. Stop.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lucky5 6/28/2024 11:47:18 AM (No. 1745312)
Fox News is not our friend. Liberals always go after them, but they are not on our side.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
CivilServant 6/28/2024 12:31:29 PM (No. 1745335)
Pfffft, 8 to a 6…..that’s nothing…..Kim Jong Il shot a -38 under ON HIS VERY FIRST GOLF OUTING.
See Joe, THAT’S how you lie!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/28/2024 12:43:25 PM (No. 1745345)
#8, with respect to your expertise, Trump is pretty much in good position at impact and has a nice move through the ball. And, as to how he may score, there's that big intangible, confidence.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 6/28/2024 12:44:37 PM (No. 1745347)
Trump was advised to play it cool and let joe show his true colors. Obviously Trump takes golf very seriously and couldn’t let that stand. It was fantastic.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 6/28/2024 1:04:11 PM (No. 1745362)
Good one, OP.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cedar 6/28/2024 1:08:13 PM (No. 1745368)
This is how Trump plays with Biden in a golf game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSg_pegYLtc
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
SALady 6/28/2024 1:22:19 PM (No. 1745382)
That was actually a lost opportunity for President Trump. At that moment, he should have challenged Dementia Joe bidet to play a round -- even just 9 holes -- at the course of bidet's choosing when bidet is on one of his many upcoming vacations in Delaware over the next few months.
Bidet's hemming and hawing and probably total meltdown would have been epic!!!!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 6/28/2024 1:36:45 PM (No. 1745391)
What Joe meant was that he averages a hextuple (+6) bogey on every hole.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/28/2024 1:54:50 PM (No. 1745400)
Re #12: I didn't say that President Trump looked bad at impact. Every good player looks good at the moment of impact, whether that player is classical swinger like Sam Snead or a weird swinger like Miller Barber ("He looks like he's chopping wood") or Gay Brewer ("He looks like he's trying to kill a rattlesnake with a whip"). They all looked good at impact. There are many ways to get there. Trump gets into pretty good impact position with his awkward swing. And that's all he needs to do to play pretty well.
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