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Trump, The Golfer In Chief

President Trump plays a lot of golf. But not nearly as much as Woodrow Wilson.
Donald Trump plays a round of golf after the opening of The Trump International Golf Links Course on July 10, 2012, in Balmedie, Scotland.

Not long ago, both the Economist and the New Yorker magazines featured unflattering cover portraits of President Trump holding a golf club. Both seemed to suggest the president had found himself in a rough patch. While that may be true politically, Trump is very much at home on the golf course — which is not surprising, since he owns 17 of them.

Whatever historians ultimately write on his presidential scorecard, Trump may be the best golfer ever to "He's won club championships. Of course, they've all been at his clubs," says Jaime Diaz, a senior writer at and editor in chief at .

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