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Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s article on his antipathy to the gameI have some sympathies with Adrian Chiles’s war of attrition with golf (I hate golf, 14 October). I too have suffered with shots to the right followed by shots to the left, and have had rounds with many bad shots, only to then have a perfect drive down the middle, or by sinking a 20-yard putt on the last green that inevitably brought me back the next week thinking that I had finally cracked it.Over the 60 years that I have been playing, I have learned that it is possible to master some of this game some of the time, but not all of the time. There are many other pluses to this wonderful game. I have played golf on many courses in this country and in Europe, enjoying great views and friendships along the way. Continue reading...

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Judge orders government to notify her by 8pm ET Sunday whether its position changed from Friday’s court filing Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday that “restoration work will begin” on 15 November to a historic public golf course in Washington DC despite a federal judge’s court order to pause his plans over environmental and historic preservation concerns.US district judge Ana Reyes had ruled earlier this year that the federal government must give notice before any substantive construction work on the East Potomac golf course could proceed, and last week issued an order halting the removal of trees at the site, which she called “inexcusable”. Continue reading...

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In attempting to turn a public space in DC into an enclave for elites, Trump is moving the US capital closer to GracelandWhen is a tree not a tree? When it’s an obstacle to a par-3. If a tree falls in the middle of a golf course, does it make a sound? Yeah, probably. I wasn’t there, but I have to assume, based on my limited knowledge of the laws of physics.What I do know is that Donald Trump’s crusade to clear more than 400 trees for the purposes of redeveloping East Potomac Golf Links into a championship-level course isn’t happening. For now.Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist Continue reading...

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