Golf.com says Trump has had ‘Men’s champion 2018’ added to his locker at Trump International Golf Course in Florida despite not entering

Trump claimed actual winner had only won because Trump had been busy

Trump organised a one-off nine-hole competition with the actual winner, which he then won



Trump's locker at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, has had a new brass plaque added to it. He's quite good at golf, as you'd hope you would be too if you'd managed to get to a golf course about 161 times in the two years since you started a new job.

According to Golf.com, he's now got a plaque announcing him as 2018 men's champion, which would be an extremely impressive feat for a 72-year-old who's meant to be running a country. The problem is, Trump didn't actually compete in the 2018 men's competition.

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If that sounds a bit Kim Jong-Il's stunning 38-under-par score of 34 at Pyongyang golf course back in 1994, there's a bit more to it. The actual winner of the actual tournament was a 58-year-old New York investment firm CEO called, improbably enough, Ted Virtue.

Multiple sources tell Golf.com that Trump bumped into Virtue after he'd won the title and told him: "The only reason you won is because I couldn’t play." Despite making 20 visits to his club last year, Trump blamed his work schedule for his non-appearance, and in possibly the first recorded instance of a president taking tactical pointers from Chris Finch's shoe-throwing after he and David Brent lost the Wernham Hogg quiz, proposed a nine-hole 'real quiz' to determine who actually won the title.

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It's amazing what owning the golf course and being president does for your powers of persuasion, because Virtue agreed. There was no official rules on hand for their matchplay round, which Trump won. "This isn’t fair - we'll be co-champions," Golf.com reports Trump as saying, presumably as a nearby caddy shouted "YOU'RE SHIT, AHHHH" repeatedly. So, they're officially co-champions now. Absolutely normal behaviour.

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