Thoughts on Trump and The Ryder Cup from across the pond: https://observer.co.uk/news/sport/article/a-masterpiece-of-ryder-cup-drama-with-a-truth-donald-trump-could-never-understand
Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Ryder Cup, not because he is the first who cared enough about golf, but because he is the first who didn’t care enough about its supporters. His sojourn lasted two hours and didn’t involve him making it much past the first tee. It cost the American people about $15 million. But a 79-year-old egomaniac got to play at being on the Ryder Cup team for 10 minutes, and so every attender’s memory will always be marked and marred by Trump, just as was the case for the US Open tennis final, the Super Bowl or the Daytona 500 in February. Everything he touches becomes part of the circus, an inevitable power you get the sense he enjoys wielding.
When asked, most players opted to focus on the office rather than the man, on the “keep politics out of golf” schtick, increasingly difficult when politics is doing a flyby of the grandstand in Air Force One, when politics forces spectators through an interminable doomloop of security scanners and stops people bringing in chairs and umbrellas and vapes, when politics has its arm round DeChambeau as he approaches the first tee of the fourballs.