JD Vance’s go to to the U.Ok. had one other subpar second when the vice chairman swung his method via a brutal spherical of golf on Trump’s Turnberry course in Scotland.
Video of the 41-year-old Republican needing 4 putts to overcome one inexperienced, in keeping with native stories, went viral on social media Friday. Golf Month-to-month says that’s almost double the variety of putts a mean golfer spends on a inexperienced.
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Vice President JD Vance performs a spherical of golf on the Trump Turnberry Ailsa Golf Course in Scotland on Thursday. (Picture by Peter Summers/Getty Pictures)
Vance and his household arrived in Scotland on Wednesday, in keeping with the BBC. Hhe reportedly hit the hyperlinks on Thursday surrounded by secret service personnel.
Vance is recent off a keep within the English countryside, the place the employees of widespread pub The Bull in Charlbury allegedly threatened a mutiny in the event that they had been compelled to serve the staunch conservative. The restaurant didn’t settle for his reservation, in keeping with the Each day Beast.
Some residents of the Oxfordshire hamlet had been upset by Vance selecting their area to spend some downtime. Native media outlet the Oxford Clarion posted pictures of indicators in locals’ lawns protesting the vice chairman.
Residents additionally complained to the BBC all through the week that, politics apart, Vance’s motorcade was crowding nation streets and complicating each day journey.
The historic Turnberry golf course got here beneath the umbrella of the Trump Group in 2014. Even earlier than first turning into president in 2016, Trump was met by protesters objecting to his “toxic, racist views” when he visited his Scotland hyperlinks, in keeping with The Guardian.
He returned to Turnberry in July — this time having twice been elected to serve within the White Home — and was as soon as once more greeted by critics upset over the battle in Gaza, his remedy of immigrants within the U.S., and his ties to intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In March, Turnberry was focused by vandals who had been angered by the Trump administration’s dealing with of Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Protesters painted “Gaza is not for sale” on the property’s white gates.
His course in Eire has additionally been vandalized over politics.
Initially Printed: August 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM EDT
