"You would think that they would have learned some lessons from that. "We had a bit of a preview last year with The Match and Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson just stunk the joint out and barely spoke across the 18-holes. "I'm just surprised that people were surprised by any aspect of this," reasoned Nathan of the disappointing show at hand. "It may seem here the obvious thing to say, but from a professional golfer's point of view it was a brave thing to say."Īs for the actual golf on show where McIlroy and Dustin Johnson were facing off against Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff in an event for charity, nobody was overly impressed. "We were all critical at the time of Rory playing with Trump and whether he would come to regret it, and he was very, very strong last week in knowing the potential for a backlash considering who you are dealing with. "Even Trump, who came on the line and seems to have a genuine love of golf, almost went down the line of talking golf before remembering that he had been put up for this so he could put his message out. "It was clearly a party-political broadcast," he reasoned. A very, very supine interview when he actually had the chance right there to go, 'Rory McIlroy has disowned you'."įor Nathan, the interaction had all the intensity of a friendly catch-up. "In the end, it turned out Trump and Tirico were golf buddies anyway and there was no journalistic independence there. I would say most of the golfers who play with him are absolute 'lickspittles' who are think his politics are amazing. "Mike Tirico was half-way through an interesting question with Donald Trump about Rory McIlroy before he bottled it," lamented Ger. "But I'm not surprised at all, and I think Trump was 100% telling the truth. On Monday's OTB AM, Ger Gilroy and Nathan Murphy pondered over the lost opportunity afforded to NBC's Mike Tirico in speaking with Trump, and the potential ramifications McIlroy faced in saying what he did. "I don't know if he'd want to play with me again after what I just said," surmised McIlroy, "but I wouldn't (want to play with him again)." Speaking on the McKellar Golf podcast, McIlroy suggested that Trump's approach to the handling of the current pandemic didn't reflect how a leader should act. The ones that don’t I don’t get to see as much." "A lot of them like my politics very much and some don’t, I guess. "A lot of them (golfers) are very political, actually," remarked Trump after McIlroy had criticised his politicising of the coronavirus pandemic.
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