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November 26, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Is Racking Up a Colossal Tab Just Playing Golf
A new report reveals the extraordinary sum President Trump has spent playing golf.
October 23, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Why Is Dirt From Trump’s White House Reno Going to a Golf Course?
Donald Trump is using his demolition of the White House as a chance to improve a golf course.
August 11, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Planned D.C. Takeover Because He Hated Route to His Golf Course
Trump doesn’t really care about D.C. He just cares about things looking nice as he goes to play golf.
July 29, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Turns White House X Account Into Commercial for His Golf Club
Donald Trump is using the official White House social platform to shill for his own business.
July 28, 2025
Robert McCoy
Did Trump Cheat at Golf? See the Video for Yourself
The president has long been accused of cheating at golf. A viral video of him in Scotland backs up the claim.
July 25, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Is Using Your Taxpayer Dollars to Promote His New Golf Course
Take a wild guess what Trump’s total golf tab is on the taxpayers’ dime.
April 4, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Has Gross Plan for Ceremony for Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania
Donald Trump shows where his true priorities lie.
July 27, 2023
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Alex Shephard
Saudi Arabia’s Dizzying Scheme to Devour the Sports World
The kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are remaking global culture.
June 16, 2023
Timothy Noah
Yet Another Golf Scandal: The Woefully Undertaxed Site of This Year’s U.S. Open
The Saudis aren’t golf’s only problem. The Los Angeles Country Club shouldn’t even exist.
June 6, 2023
Alex Shephard
The PGA Bends the Knee to Saudi Arabia
The lesson from the LIV Golf takeover of pro golf is that sportswashing works.
June 10, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Grotesque Sportswashing of the Saudi Golf League
The clumsy kickoff of this ill-starred competitor of the PGA has been a window into a tawdriness that infects international sports.
October 2, 2020
J.C. Pan
The President and His Country Club Pals Still Have the Best Defense Against Covid
It’s easy to forgo a mask when you know your wealth probably insulates you from the worst effects of the pandemic.
November 13, 2019
David Roth
The Vainglorious Eternals Go Golfing
What a 2008 photo tells us about American political life in 2019
September 6, 2017
Clio Chang
The easiest way to get Trump’s ear? Paying to play at one of his golf clubs.
April 8, 2016
Adam Peck
Why Is the U.S. Map on the Masters’ Logo So Wrong?
A cartographic mystery.
December 20, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Obama played golf instead of watching the Democratic debate tonight.
June 22, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Every American Golf Course Should Look Like This Year's U.S. Open
January 19, 2014
Marc Tracy
The Mistake That Doomed The Grantland Story About a Putter
March 21, 2013
Charles McGrath
Tiger’s Beat
The joylessness of watching Tiger Woods, the world’s once-best athlete
December 9, 2009
John McWhorter
Tigergate Isn't a Black Thing -- Despite What Some Would Prefer
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