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🗓️ 31 August 2021
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| 0:00.0 | People take the game of golf pretty seriously. The folks who I know are into it, they're |
| 0:12.3 | into it. It's like some kind of religion or something. |
| 0:15.4 | You know, you could know somebody for 20 years and not realize they're an asshole until |
| 0:19.0 | you play 18 holes of golf with them. That's David Owen. He's a writer and every once |
| 0:23.7 | in a while, he writes for the New Yorker. And he also loves golf. I'm a total golf |
| 0:29.4 | at it. They went overnight from never thinking about it to not thinking about almost anything |
| 0:33.8 | else. And you know, it's hard to explain. It rewards you sort of randomly, but just |
| 0:39.7 | often enough to make you think that if you kept at it, you could get this little squirt |
| 0:45.5 | of endorphins all the time in 2012. He had an assignment from golf digest to write about |
| 0:52.4 | another guy who obsesses over golf. At the time, this dude was a mogul of New York Real |
| 0:58.1 | State. Trump is building a golf course in Scotland. And the pieces are going to be about |
| 1:03.0 | Trump and golf. Trump has always been a golf guy. He's been buying up and building golf |
| 1:08.0 | courses since the 90s. He even published a book of golf advice and wrote in the introduction. |
| 1:14.2 | For me and millions of people, men, women, young and old around the world, golf is more |
| 1:20.1 | than a game. It's a passion. That wasn't supposed to be my Trump impersonation, by the |
| 1:27.9 | way. So our journalist Owen goes to Scotland to check out the new course and to play a couple |
| 1:36.3 | of games up and down the coast. He doesn't see Trump there, but while he's working on the |
| 1:41.5 | piece, he gets a call from Trump himself with an invitation to play in Florida and stay |
| 1:46.6 | at Mar-a-Lago. So Owen flies down to play some rounds with Trump. Now, one thing to note |
| 1:52.7 | here is that when it comes to the game of golf, Trump has a very peculiar and let's say unorthodox |
| 1:59.6 | way of playing in a way that his reputation precedes him. I've heard so many stories about him |
| 2:06.6 | cheating. And it's going on for years and years. The sports writer Rick Riley, he even |
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