Updated 09:10 AM EDT, Fri, Apr 19, 2024

Donald Trump Responds to Golf-Cheating Claims: 'I Don't Drop Balls'

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Presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump refuted allegations that he is a cheater at golf.

Trump said in a Yahoo Sports report that he does not even know some of the people who claim that he cheats at the sport.

Former Sports Illustrated managing editor Mark Mulvoy told the Washington Post on Wednesday that when he played with the businessman one time in the mid-1990s, Trump allegedly mentioned about cheating during their game.

"Ahh, the guys I play with cheat all the time. I have to cheat just to keep up with them," Mulvoy quoted the businessman's words.

In response, Trump said he never even know who Mulvoy is and said that he did not play golf with him.

"I don't drop balls, I don't move balls. I don't need to," he said defending himself.

Another person who accused Trump of cheating in golf, as per Yahoo Sports, was musician Alice Cooper who mentioned in a 2012 Q Magazine article that the mogul is the "worst celebrity golf cheat."

"I wish I could tell you that. It would be a shocker. I played golf with Donald Trump one time. That's all I'm going to say," Cooper said.

But Trump also denied ever playing golf with the musician.

"I've never played with Alice Cooper. That's a terrible thing to say about people, especially me," the businessman explained.

Trump, however, recognized another critic, sportswriter Rick Reilly who claimed that the presidential candidate loves breaking rules when it comes to golf.

"When it comes to cheating, he's an 11 on a scale of one to 10. He took the world's first gimme chip-in," Reilly said in the Washington Post report.

He added that Trump even told him to "make sure you write that I play my first ball. You don't get a second ball in life" after he made a few shots.

But Trump was not ready to agree to what the writer had to say as he had his own piece of criticism against him.

"I always thought he was a terrible writer. I absolutely killed him, and he wrote very inaccurately. I would say that he's a very dishonest writer," was Trump's response to Reilly.

A lot of people seemed shocked with this revelation especially with Business Insider stressing that he "owns a number of luxury golf courses and pride himself in his golf skills."

But Trump is reportedly not the first politician to be criticized for playing dishonest in golf as Golf Digest noted that former US Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton also had the same reputation.

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