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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act

Keir Starmer, Donald Trump and Victoria Starmer.
Trump greeted Keir and Victoria Starmer at Turnberry, calling the prime minister’s wife ‘a great woman’. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

It had been the very bestest of bigly weekends. Two rounds of golf at his very own course in Turnberry.

On the Saturday Donald Trump had broken the record with a round of just 18. A hole in one at every hole. Largely because there had been men stationed about the course to pick up the ball and place it in the hole. Then on the Sunday he had gone one better. A round of 17. The ball had gone straight into the cup at the fourth hole, had rested there for a couple of seconds and then had flown out, soaring over the links and straight into the hole at the fifth. Scottie Scheffler could only dream of such a shot.

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