De La Hoya: I Won't Vote Trump, He Cheated Me in Golf
One round of golf with Donald Trump was all it took to convince Oscar De La Hoya that the billionaire was not presidential material.
The former world champion boxer spoke to reporters in Las Vegas on Tuesday about his round two years ago with the likely Republican candidate at Trump National LA.
Trump pulled up in a golf cart as De La Hoya was about to tee off and asked if he could join him.
From there Trump teed off – badly – hitting two balls into the water and one out of bounds. On his fourth try, he managed to keep his ball in play, although it headed straight into some bushes.
Trump then motored off ahead in his cart.
"So we go off to our ball, and who do we see? Donald Trump, right in the middle of the fairway," De La Hoya said.
As they pulled up, Trump said: "By the way, I found my first ball, it's right here".
"We're like, 'OK, yeah', we're cracking up, not in front of his face," De La Hoya said.
"Then we go on to a par-3, 170 [yards]. There's a big bush right between the tee and the green, so you can't really see the green – you can see the flag, not the green. [Trump] hits and we just know it went out of bounds. We know it. He takes off.
"We get up there [to the green] and he's like, 'Oh, my ball's right here!' Three feet away. 'And by the way, I'm going to pick it up, it's a gimme'," De La Hoya said.
De La Hoya, who added there was no money on the line, said that was enough to convince him Trump shouldn't be president.
"I'm not [voting] for someone who cheats in golf."
De La Hoya said he invited the real estate mogul to attend Saturday's HBO pay-per-view bout to watch Mexican Saul Alvarez fight former junior-welterweight champion Amir Khan, a Muslim. Trump has made critical comment during his campaign about Mexicans and Muslims.
