Sometimes life is simpler stranger than Golf

It couldn’t be more ironic, but the final day of The PGA Championship this year will fall on Sunday, May 17th, which also happens to be the US Government’s National Day of Prayer to celebrate the 2505th anniversary, called Rededicate 250 … or is it?

In fact, it turns out that - as with everything involving the implosion of the American psyche - the festivities have been hijacked by the Trump administration to create a partisan, sectarian event, which is being cast as “a national jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving.” It’s being planned and led by a group called “Freedom 250,” and not the Congress-created America250, a bipartisan, government-funded nonprofit to lead the 250th birthday celebrations. But POTUS Trump apparently didn’t like Congress overseeing his own MAGA-led politicisation of the year’s celebrations, so he created his own Federal body, Freedom 250, to lead various festivities, including this Sunday’s day of prayer. When they’ve finished saying Hi to Jesus, there’ll be a crypto-sponsored Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts match on the White House lawn next month on Trump’s birthday. Huzzah!

I’ll bet they’re looking at us and thinking to themselves, “… now that’s the way to run a country!”

So, Trump aside, tomorrow the PGA Championship heads to Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. It is hard to imagine a more fitting stage