by Ted Wright
Please provide us with the percentage of the top 100 courses listed that DO advertise with Golf Digest. Maybe Donald has a point. You berated him pretty good but you didn't provide any direct evidence to counter his point. What are the facts?

by David
Strange that someone who is supposed to be such a successful real estate businessman has required the protection of the bankruptcy laws more than once to keep his "empire" afloat. He seems now to have abandoned the substantial for the ephemeral. Beauty contests and wrestling matches are his current playground. That, at least, should keep him off the golf course where he is bound to run into the real--if he plays by the rules.

by Frankn
Calm down. Of course Trump is everything you say and more. All normal, reasoned adults who eschew idol worship in general knows this. Its only the get-a-lifers that listen to and heed the things they hear from the plastic world of the Trump-like people.
I wouldn't listen to, associate with, or play golf with such a loudmouth bore ever, and neither would most of Golf Digest's readers I suspect. Unless he wanted to play for $$, follow the rules, and put his single digit index up against my 12. I've seen his swing. He's a fraud, at least when it comes to all things golf.

by MIck
Arrogance is clearly high on Donald's agenda, he makes a point of letting everyone know how he feels, unfortunately he actually believes his own bulls*^t. If you put that much money into a golf course you would want recognition too. Maybe his designer will feel the real brunt of your survey as Donald will need to blame someone, maybe he should get his daughter to design the next course!
Apparently she can do everything else.

by John Fiorillo
While I completely agree with your comments about The Donald, there was no need to resort to an ethnic slur to criticize him. Calling him a "macaroni" clearly implied that was one of the worst things you could say about him and that's an obvious ethnic slur. It's also incorrect. Trump happens to be a Brooklyn Jew. You damage your credibility as a journalist by including this vulgar and insensitive reference in your column. In my opinion, it's worth an apology.

by Lester Hinson
"obvious ethnic slur" ... ""vulgar and insensitive reference"?
John, please take off your panties and let the rest of us know what in the HELL are you talking about!

by Chuck Collet
Lester:- So you don't think that was a "vulgar and insensitive reference"??Let me suggest something to you and your macho crap brethren. It is remarks like those you choose to brush aside that ends up with young men and women dying on the battlefields of the world so that "so called" American Democracy can flourish under arms throughout the world.. So toddle off home now and beat the wife and kids if they say something you don't believe in. Cowards are all the same. You are a COWARD.. Chuck Collet, Pitt Meadows, British Columbia

by Lester Hinson
No, I don't think "macaroni" is a vulgar and insensitive reference. Silly and outdated, perhaps, but not vulgar and insensitive.
But then again I was raised singing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" about 1,000 times a year in music class in elementary school. A quick refresher at www.yourdictionary.com will remind you that "'Macaroni,' the most bemusing word in [the song] refers to the fact that Italy and France were centers of European haute couture. The joke was that a colonial—a Yankee 'dandy'—would stick a feather in his tricorne or coonskin cap and think himself as fashionable as any man à la mode in Paris or Rome."
Egads! With references that vulgar and insensitive, it's a wonder I didn't pull a Columbine by high school!

by Annie
For God's sake wake up! How do you think he's getting free advertising? Being outrageous has press value. Doesn't cost the rich man ANTYHING. You are all helping him sell his real estate, AND his golf courses. Who wouldn't want to play the TRUMP courses, ratings or no!

by Chuck Collet
Tim, Tim, Tim;- I don't want to belabour the point but when you wake up tomorrow take a good long look in the mirror.. Nice Hair Eh!!. As "combovers" go yours isn't too bad but I fear will get worse.. Golf, Give us some golf. We don't need your personal petty comments about someone who doesn't mean anything to most of us. I get the impression from your writing that YOU wouldn't be any fun to golf with, (probably whining all the time about how the course is not treating you as well as YOU deserve). Climb out of the gutter and send us some messages that involve golf "the game".. I can buy all the other crap at the checkout at my local supermarket. Chuck Collet, Pitt Meadows, British Columbia

by Jo
Even though Donald Trump is a blowhard, he is right. If you don't advertise with Golf Digest, you don't get ranked.

by Jim Quillen
I heartily agree with your assesment of Trump. His mug or name associated with golf has soiled the game. His course in L.A. is an absolute joke and it seems few have the courage to say so. I only hope the LPGA and the PGA have the guts to stay very far away from this pariah.

by Gary Gibson
Basically, I share your negative view of Donald Trump although, I don't know that I would have expressed myself quite as stridently as you have. I really can't stand the man. Having said all that, frankly, I have played several courses over the years that I felt someone must have paid golf digest in order to receive the rating they got. I don't know if it was cash to the reviewer or ads in your magazine, but I felt it was one or the other, since the course did not deserve the high ranking it received.

by Jack Dempsey
I usually like your emails because they provide intelligent data about that which is important in life; GOLF. Who cares what Donald Trump has to say or does, your assessment of him is dead on but why waste time and space on him? This only provides him more fuel for his ego and somewhere there is a course that far and away deserves the noteriety more then what's his name.

by Doug Hawley
The ulterior motive of your article is very clear; you are a Rosie wannabe. It's transparent... you are hoping for more visibility by lashing out at Donald Trump, hoping for his return fire which will only provide you with the notoriety you apparently seek. For a golf writer to take such a low road is 'sacrelig,' as a matter of fact I suspect that you are not a true golfer at all; just a poor peasant writer that pines for some fame.