Trump teed up lie after lie in the debate, but Biden whiffed.

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I slapped my forehead. Biden had shuffled to the podium like he was wearing leg irons, so nobody on Earth was believing he’s a 6. Trump yelped, “That’s the biggest lie, that he’s a 6 handicap, of all!” Biden immediately changed it to “8,” which only made things worse. It was like somebody saying, “Okay, wait. Now I remember. I didn’t knock out Muhammad Ali. I knocked out Joe Frazier.”

And yet … if you go to the U.S. Golf Association’s online handicap website, the handicap listed for Biden at Fieldstone Golf Club in Delaware is 6.7.

Pah. The site’s stats are only as fresh, and accurate, as the scores the player feeds into it, and Biden hasn’t entered a new score in six years. Looking at him today, you’d wonder if he could break 100. For nine.

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Besides, why would you try to out-spit a llama? Go ahead, brag about your gym workouts or your bike rides; Trump has already cornered the market on outrageous golf fibs. He chronically tells passersby that he’s a 2.5 handicap, which is a whopper with cheese. Okay, the USGA’s handicap website lists him as a 2.5, but did I mention that they rely on the golfer’s honesty? Trump is no more a 2.5 handicap than Mitch McConnell is a break dancer.

I’ve played golf with Trump. He’s good off the tee, but he shanks shots, chunks chips and purloins putts. He’s actually about a 10 or 12 handicap, and that’s only with the help of his caddies, who toss balls out of bunkers and kick them out of the junk.

So, to recap, if Biden is a 6 handicap, elephants can Hula Hoop. And if Trump is a 2.5, they can do it on top of flagpoles.

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It didn’t end there.

Trump: “I’m in very good health. I just won two club championships, not even senior, two regular club championships.”

Okay, this sentence comes with so many lies I need an abacus.

At just about any country club, they have a yearly “club championship” for members. Usually, the top golfers of any age play over two days to see who’s best. All putts have to be sunk, all rules have to be followed. Trump rarely does either. Yet he somehow “just won” two club championships?

I’ve been around golf for half a........

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