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Dwight D. Eisenhower is the only former United States president to be inducted as a member of the legendary Augusta National Golf Club, and you shouldn’t expect sitting president Donald Trump to join him anytime soon.
Eisenhower, the country’s 34th president, was inducted into the club in 1948, prior to his term as president. He was an avid golfer and even had a tree named after him on the 17th hole before it was removed following an ice storm in 2014.
But no other president has ever been admitted into the illustrious club, and there’s a reason for that. It’s the same reason that Donald Trump almost certainly won’t be the second name on that list.
Legendary Swing Coach Says Donald Trump Is Too ‘Full Of Himself’ For Augusta
While Augusta National’s membership includes a number of CEO’s and executives, most of them keep a fairly low profile and don’t draw attention to themselves or the club.
That is, of course, not the case with Trump. Which is why famed swing coach Butch Harmon says that he almost certainly won’t be admitted into the club anytime soon.
“I think you can answer that yourself – because he’s Trump. I think he is who he is. He’s full of himself. He’s the type of person that I don’t think fits the profile of an Augusta member,” said in an interview with The Telegraph.
“I’ve known him most of my whole life, because his father was a member of Winged Foot. What you see is what you get with him. And I don’t think his personality fits the membership at Augusta.”
And it doesn’t matter that he is president. I don’t think that has anything to do with it, because there’s been a lot of other presidents who played golf, and they’re not member.
[Bill] Clinton, [Barack] Obama, they played golf. I think it’s just his personality doesn’t mix with that particular club. That’s as politically correct as I can be.”
Harmon’s answer shouldn’t come as a surprise. The one thing that Augusta National has always stressed is that no member is bigger than the club.
That rule seemingly does not fit with Trump’s personality. So he likely won’t be donning a green jacket anytime soon.