Commander In Cheat by Rick Reilly (.ePUB, .mobi, .azw3)


                    Commander In Cheat by Rick Reilly
                           How Golf Explains Trump

Originally published: April 2, 2019     256 Pages

An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes
to golf -- on and off the green -- and what it reveals about his character.

Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14
courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on
the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an
astonishing 18 club championships.

How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly
reveals in this unsparing look at Trump in the world of golf.

Base on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100
golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling
and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game. You'll learn how
Trump cheats (sometimes with the help of his caddies and Secret Service agents),
lies about his scores (the "Trump Bump" ), tells whoppers about the rank of his
courses and their worth (declaring that every one of them is worth $50 million),
and tramples the etiquette of the game (driving on greens doesn't help). Trump
doesn't brag so much, though, about the golf contractors he stiffs, the course
neighbors he intimidates, or the way his golf decisions wind up infecting his
political ones.

For Trump, it's always about winning. To do it, he uses the tricks he picked up
from the hustlers at the public course where he learned the game as a college
kid, and then polished as one of the most bombastic businessmen of our time.
As Reilly writes, "Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man."

Commander in Cheat "paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater"
(Esquire), revealing all kinds of unsightly truths Trump has been hiding.

Genre: Sports & Recreation