'Jack Nicklaus, the all-time leader with 18 major golf titles, seems to have a major blind spot: Donald Trump,' writes inkstainedretch.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jon Rahm and Viktor Hovland each shot 7-under 65s at the first round of the Masters, but neither Rahm, a recent World No. 1, nor Hovland, an ebullient, rising young star, made as much noise as LIV Golf ambassador Brooks Koepka.
“I think it was good to see. People probably don’t think I’m as open as what I really am. I’ll tell you exactly how I’m feeling at the time, how I’m feeling in the moment,” he said. “I’m pretty vulnerable away from the golf course. I’ve always said what you see on the golf course isn’t what you get behind closed doors. Hopefully, people were able to take that from it.
“We looked at it when we got back in,” Koepka said. “GW [Woodland] and Butchie [Little] had no idea what we were hitting. I know that fact because GW asked me what we hit walking off [the 15th green].” Nicklaus was a staunch supporter of Trump both in his successful presidential run in 2016 and in his failed campaign in 2020 — an election in which Nicklaus encouraged folks to vote for Trump on Twitter and whose results Trump continues to reject, even as he prepares to run again in 2024.
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