New York Post

Trump lays down links law

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PRESIDENT Trump spent the holiday weekend at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ — but a links legend lives on at one of his other courses in nearby Westcheste­r.

Sources tell Page Six that years ago there was a rule at his swanky Trump National Golf Club Westcheste­r in Briarcliff Manor, NY, that Trump was allowed to “play through” whenever he was golfing at the club — meaning he could pass other players who were ahead of him on the course.

To ensure that the real estate mogul could speed ’round the greens faster than the others, sources told Page Six that the future commander in chief “had a golf cart that went twice as fast as everyone else’s” so that he could zoom about.

At the time, a Trump source told us of the president’s supersonic cart, “This is correct, but the members love it.” The insider added, “He has great respect for them, and if they objected, he would never do it. One of the things he likes to do, when and if he plays through, is to make sure to greet the members as he passes. They really enjoy the banter, as does Mr. Trump!”

A rep for the president didn’t get back to us as to whether the souped-up wheels are still rolling.

But back at Bedminster, Trump sent some golf fans into debate late last month when video emerged of him at the New Jersey club he owns driving a golf cart on one of the greens, apparently a no-no. Trump’s network nemesis CNN posted video with the caption, “This video appears to show President Trump breaking a cardinal rule of golf: driving a cart on the green.”

He’s also said to have been seen driving on a green at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., while playing with NFL icon Peyton Manning. One former member of that club told the Washington Post that was not allowed. Then again, the paper pointed out, “It’s not like Trump was committing golf ’s biggest sin on just anybody’s course,” since he owns the place.

Bedminster will host the US Women’s Open Championsh­ip Monday through July 16.

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