Donald Trump squeezed in a quick round of golf with Tiger Woods on Sunday morning before he makes his way to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.
Trump, who is set to attend the NFL showpiece as a special guest of New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson, played alongside the golf legend at his own Trump International Golf Club in Florida.
The president will now make the 700-mile trip to the Big Easy to watch the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles lock horns later this evening.
Woods and Trump have become close in recent years, with the latter offering condolences to his good friend earlier this week following the death of his mother Kultida at the age of 78.
‘I was just informed that Tiger Woods’ wonderful Mother, Kultida, passed away – She has gone onto greener fairways!’ he wrote in a post on social media.
‘Kultida Woods was an amazing influence on Tiger, and gave him much of his strength and brilliance. Melania and I send our love and prayers to Tiger and his incredible family!’
Donald Trump squeezed in a quick round of golf with Tiger Woods on Sunday morning
Trump, pictured heading to his Florida golf club to play with Woods on Sunday morning, will now jet to New Orleans to attend Sunday night’s Super Bowl between the Chiefs and Eagles
Woods was extremely close to his mother, who saw him emerge to conquer golf before standing by him during his downfall from 2009’s sex scandal.
The sporting icon and 15-time major winner did not reveal the cause of her death. But she was at his most recent TGL match in Florida on January 27.
Trump will become the first sitting president ever to attend a Super Bowl when he watches the Chiefs face the Eagles at the Superdome in New Orleans tonight.
He is expected to watch the game alongside Saints owner Benson, Front Office Sports reported earlier this week.
The businesswoman, who became the principal owner of the NFL franchise in 2018 following her husband’s death, will host him as a special guest at the Superdome – the home of her Saints.
She is known to be Republican leaning with previous donations to particular political campaigns. However, it is unknown how she voted in last November’s presidential election.
Also in attendance at Sunday’s game will be pop megastar Taylor Swift, who Trump hasn’t seen eye-to-eye with over the years.
Though while they may not be the best of friends, the pair will be on the same page for once this weekend.
The president expressed his condolences after Woods’ mom Kultida passed away this week
He is now set to make the 700-mile trip to New Orleans for Sunday night’s NFL showpiece
In doing so Trump will become the first sitting president in history to attend a Super Bowl
Swift is attending Sunday’s game to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Chiefs, who will bid to become the first team in history to win the Super Bowl three years in a row when they take on the Eagles.
He may not admit it publicly, but Trump will almost certainly be rooting for a Kansas City win too on Sunday night.
Despite his long-running feud with Swift – who accused him of ‘stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism’ during his last term in office – he will want her boyfriend’s team to emerge victorious after being snubbed by the Eagles when they claimed their first and only Super Bowl in 2018.
In light of his repeated criticism of NFL players for kneeling during national anthems to protest against police treatment of African Americans in the States, Trump’s invitation for Philadelphia to visit the White House was turned down by a number of players before it was later rescinded.
And to add to the tension between the two parties, just months earlier Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie had branded his first term as president a ‘disaster’.
In contrast to Lurie, it is believed Chiefs owner Clark Hunt is pro-Trump after his wife Tavia shared social-media posts at the back end of last year supporting his stance on immigration.
