JD Vance’s visit to the U.K. had another subpar moment when the vice president swung his way through a brutal round of golf on Trump’s Turnberry course in Scotland.
Video of the 41-year-old Republican needing four putts to conquer one green, according to local reports, went viral on social media Friday. Golf Monthly says that’s nearly double the number of putts an average golfer spends on a green.
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Vice President JD Vance plays a round of golf at the Trump Turnberry Ailsa Golf Course in Scotland on Thursday. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)
Vance and his family arrived in Scotland on Wednesday, according to the BBC. Hhe reportedly hit the links on Thursday surrounded by secret service personnel.
Vance is fresh off a stay in the English countryside, where the staff of popular pub The Bull in Charlbury allegedly threatened a mutiny if they were forced to serve the staunch conservative. The restaurant didn’t accept his reservation, according to the Daily Beast.
Some residents of the Oxfordshire hamlet were upset by Vance choosing their region to spend some downtime. Local media outlet the Oxford Clarion posted photos of signs in locals’ lawns protesting the vice president.
Residents also complained to the BBC throughout the week that, politics aside, Vance’s motorcade was crowding country streets and complicating daily travel.
The historic Turnberry golf course came under the umbrella of the Trump Organization in 2014. Even before first becoming president in 2016, Trump was met by protesters objecting to his “toxic, racist views” when he visited his Scotland links, according to The Guardian.
He returned to Turnberry in July — this time having twice been elected to serve in the White House — and was once again greeted by critics upset over the war in Gaza, his treatment of immigrants in the U.S., and his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In March, Turnberry was targeted by vandals who were angered by the Trump administration’s handling of Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Protesters painted “Gaza is not for sale” on the property’s white gates.
His course in Ireland has also been vandalized over politics.
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