#178 In which we are barefoot and pregnant

The ConstiToonies Golf Team is world-renowned, and not above bearing a grudge that we were not asked to represent the US in this year’s Ryder Cup. Given the US’s less than splendid performance at the event, maybe next time they’ll take us more seriously. 

We do, however, refuse to play at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire, if that’s ever where the Cup will be taking place. The club has breached contamination levels multiple times, primarily because of human waste that has not been properly treated. We have mastered our shots out of the woods, out of the sand, and out of the rough, but we haven’t even begun to consider which wedge is best for blasting out of raw golfer poop.

This news on Trump’s Scottish Golf Poop (which, much like climate change, the resort denies is real) got us to read back on the origins of the club. We found this on Boingboing: “Trump International Golf Links was built on the site of a protected 4,000-year-old sand dune; he bullied anyone who wouldn't sell their homes to him to build it and then sent the holdouts a bill for the 15-foot-high wall he built around their homes to block their view of the ocean; he promised a $1.25B investment and ended up investing no more than $50m; he promised 6,000 jobs and created 95; he promised two golf courses and only opened one; he promised to build a 450-room luxury hotel and 950 apartments and built neither.” And, of course, he rants over the nearby offshore wind turbines that are presumably forcing his ball into the woods a little too often, or killing the whales, or killing the Welsh, or whatever, since with Trump one never knows. And we love this coda to the article: “Trump's Scottish neighbors fly enormous Hillary Clinton and Mexican flags when he visits his golf course.”