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Legendary golf agent reveals how he helped Donald Trump buy Turnberry Golf Club
While speaking with GolfWRX, golf agent Chubby Chandler revealed that he helped Donald Trump buy Turnberry in 2014.
Chandler, who is perhaps best known as being the former agent of major champions such as Rory Mcilroy, Charl Schwartzel, Darren Clarke, and Louis Oosthuizen, began the tale when asked what his favorite Open Championship course is:
“[Turnberry} is such a wonderful golf course, what he’s done to that course is unbelievable,”
“I bought it, you know.” Chubby added.
“I bought it because, I got to know him (Trump) a bit in Florida in 2015 and we’d arranged a game with [Lee] Westwood and myself.”
“We were playing with Donald and I walked into the breakfast room at West Palm Beach there and he says, ‘Chubby!’. and I’ve never met him, and I’m thinking, why is he shouting at me?”
“Chubby! I want you to be my agent.”, Chubby recalled Trump saying.
“Anyway, we played and, which was quite an interesting exercise, and he said I want to buy this course, is it any good?
“Yeah, it’s very good,” Chubby replied.
“Well, I can’t go and buy it cos they’ll jack the price up and it will be difficult,” Trump replied.
“Will you front it for me?”
Chandler agreed.
“So I got busy and I made a few phone calls and actually it was owned then by a company called Leisure Corp. And I knew a guy that was just about the boss of Leisure, a guy called David Spencer and they put it up for sale and I got the raters from him and went through that.”
“And, and I got it quite a long way down the line and then somebody wanted proof of funds and it was going to be, I don’t know, 60 or 70 million and they wanted me to prove I’d got 80 million, which I didn’t,” Chubby said while laughing.
“And so, I rang [Trump] and I said, don’t [have the 80 million], I’ve got a problem. He said, ‘what’s that, Chubby?’ I said, they want me to prove I’ve got $80 million and I just don’t have it right now. And [Trump] said, Chubby, this is where I come in.”
“Yeah, and he sent me a statement of an account to send to him and, and it was, I mean, it was staggering and, and he took over from there.”
“So you bought it?” Vincenzi asked.
“I got it halfway down the road and then he took over so that you got, you got him the price he wanted, he got the price he wanted, I got him a bit more than the price he wanted.”
Chandler continued by recalling that after that he went on Trump’s private jet and listened to Elton John perform for seven hours.
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“Is it a Titleist?” – Jerry Seinfeld shares never-before-heard details of iconic scene
On Thursday, legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld joined the Rich Eisen Show and shared an awesome story from a “Seinfeld” episode titled “The Marine Biologist.”
In the episode, a golf ball goes into the blow hole of a whale. According to Seinfeld, that was never in the episode’s script.
Seinfeld recalls saying the night before the filming of the episode, “What if what puts the whale in distress is Kramer’s golf ball?”
“He’s hitting golf balls at the beach. George is at the beach with a girl, we haven’t connected them!”
“We write that speech the night before at two o’clock in the morning…The sea was angry that day my friend.”
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Kramer finishes the iconic scene by asking “Is it a Titleist?” Seinfeld told Eisen the show sought Titleist’s permission to mention its name, saying the ball had to be a Titleist. Fortunately for lovers of the iconic show, the company agreed.
If (somehow) you’re unfamiliar with the scene, check it out below.
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Phil Mickelson drops big retirement hint; Says LIV will grow the game ‘on a much more global basis’
While speaking with Bloomberg, golf legend Phil Mickelson acknowledged that he is inching close towards retirement.
“I’m 53 now,” Phil said, “and my career, you know, it’s — if I’m being truthful, it’s on — it’s — it’s — I’m a — it’s towards its end.”
Mickelson added that one of his focuses now is helping other young players.
“Now, I would like to help others find the same enjoyment and fulfillment that the game has provided me. I’d like them to experience that as well.”
The six-time major champion credited LIV with reaching new markets in golf to help it grow.
“I think that’s exciting for everyone involved in the game because we are going to reach markets that we didn’t reach before. I think it’s going to inspire more golf courses, inspire more manufacturers selling clubs and equipment, but also inspiring young kids to try to play golf professionally. I just see that the game of golf is going to grow on a much more global basis because of the excitement and the presence that LIV Golf has.”
Mickelson is playing at this week’s LIV Singapore and shot a first round 72 (+1).
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Tiger explains why golf has ‘negative connotations’ for daughter Sam
While Tiger Woods’ son, Charlie, has certainly inherited his father’s love for golf, his daughter, Sam, has not.
On Wednesday, Tiger made an appearance on The Today Show with Carson Daly and explained his daughter’s relationship with golf.
“Golf has negative connotations for her. When she was growing up, golf took daddy away from her. I had to pack, I had to leave, and I was gone for weeks. So, there were negative connotations to it.
“We developed our own relationship and our own rapport outside of golf. We do things that doesn’t involve golf. Meanwhile, my son and I, everything we do is golf related.”
The nine-minute interview touches on plenty of other subjects, such as Tiger’s relationship with his late father, Earl.
It’s arguably the most open we’ve seen the 15-time major champion in an interview and is most definitely worth watching.
Tiger Woods sits down with Carson Daly to talk about golf, growing up in Southern California, his father and his new apparel line, Sun Day Red. pic.twitter.com/2TFbSNxzxq
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) May 1, 2024
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