President Donald Trump kept up his teasing of former President Joe Biden’s golf game during a Thanksgiving call with U.S. service members.
During the call from the White House, a petty officer asked the 47th president what his “true golf handicap” was and followed up by asking, “Are you and President Biden going to play that golf match?”
For context, Trump first criticized Biden’s golf abilities during their June 27, 2024, presidential debate in Atlanta. A few weeks later, he publicly challenged Biden to a golf match, promising to donate $1 million to charity if he lost.
Responding to the petty officer, Trump confidently said he would “love” to face Biden on the course.
“I mean, I’ve invited him, but he doesn’t want to show up,” Trump said.
Trump then launched into his own golf résumé, saying, “Look, I know a lot about golf. I’ve won 38 club championships, and I don’t get to practice much. I won one last year. I won a club championship at a big club, beating a 27-year-old kid. I said, you know, I’m decades older than you, but I said, ‘The fairway doesn’t know how old you are as you walk up the middle and he’s in the rough.’ I’ve been a good golfer over the years.”
He described himself as having a “very low handicap,” though he did not offer a specific number.
“I guess I’m very — I got to be right around scratch or better. I beat a plus-three. That’s three better, three below par, if you look at it for those that don’t know, in the finals of the club championship last year, with all I was going through and with no practice. So, I’m a good golfer,” Trump said.
Since their 2024 debate, Trump has repeatedly mocked Biden’s golf game. In one instance, while on a driving range with LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau and YouTuber Travis Miller, Trump hit a drive and quipped, “You think Joe Biden can do that?”
He has also ridiculed Biden’s claim of being a six handicap.
“He said he’s a six. I said, ‘You’re not a 60.’ He’s not a 60,” Trump said at the time. “So I said, ‘I’ll give you a million dollars if you can break 100.’ If you’re a six, you can break 100 easily. But he can’t.”
In July, Trump again took aim at Biden’s game after a clip of one of Biden’s drives went viral.
“Did you get to see my drive on the first hole? Pretty long, pretty long. That’s no Joe Biden, let me tell you. That’s not Biden, right? That was a good drive,” Trump said.
Trump wrapped up his Thanksgiving exchange with the petty officer by circling back to Biden’s golf ability.
“You have a lot of people talk, but they can’t play like Biden. Biden can’t hit a ball 30 yards. I’m telling you, I looked at his swing. He cannot hit a ball 30 yards,” Trump said. “He said he was a six handicapper. That was the only thing that made me angry. During the debate with him, he said he was a six. I said, you’re not a six. And he said, well, I’m an eight. I said, that was quick. I picked up two, but he’s not 100. He’s not 100. But it’s a great game, and I hope you guys get to play a little bit of it.”
