Over the weekend, a clip of President Donald Trump, at age 79, besting 2024 U.S. Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau with a spectacular tee shot that resulted in an eagle on a par-4 began circulating on the social media platform X.
Fact check: the 79-year-old president did not eagle a par 4.
Instead, he did it at age 78.
The clip in question made the rounds on X thanks to a prominent Trump supporter named “Chicago1Ray,” who has more than 467,000 followers. As of Monday morning, therefore, the clip itself had more than 1.4 million views.
“When’s the last time you seen a 79 year old make an Eagle… let me answer that for you….. never,” “Chicago1Ray” wrote.
When’s the last time you seen a 79 year old make an Eagle… let me answer that for you….. never pic.twitter.com/l6kgAWjIYm
— @Chicago1Ray ???????? (@Chicago1Ray) September 28, 2025
“C3,” another prominent Trump supporter with more than 210,000 followers on X, also shared the clip.
“79 year with an Eagle like it was nothing. What an absolute Legend,” “C3” wrote.
79 year with an Eagle like it was nothing.
What an absolute Legend.
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— C3 (@C_3C_3) September 29, 2025
Meanwhile, other X users also shared the clip as if Trump’s spectacular golf shot happened recently.
I have yet to make an Eagle.
Trump’s putter is not pretty, but it is effective, and in the round with Bryson @brysondech I believe he missed the fairway only once on his drives. https://t.co/D79FHIQNwp
— VOICE OF REASON (@voicereason05) September 29, 2025
Eagle On A Par 4
Donald The Great One Trump!
Best Golfer & President Ever!
GO USA, GO USA, GO USA Made In America!
MGGA Make Golf Great Again????❤️✌️????⛳️
pic.twitter.com/vJovOzSMyd— ufouap (@gotufostv) September 29, 2025
President Trump makes his own Eaglehttps://t.co/PGDtclll0L
— TheNobleStrain (@TheNobleStrain) September 29, 2025
It makes sense, of course, that X users would assume Trump and DeChambeau played a round together recently. After all, on Friday the president received a raucous ovation when he attended the Ryder Cup golf tournament and met with players from Team USA, including DeChambeau.
As we noted last year, however, Trump played a two-man scramble with DeChambeau as part of a regular YouTube series called “Break 50.” This particular episode — “Can I Break 50 With President Donald Trump?” — appeared in July 2024. As the preposition “with” suggests, golfers play as a team under scramble rules.
“You think Biden can do that?” Trump said after a great tee shot on the second hole. “I don’t know. We had an argument about golf. Can you believe it?”
Indeed, during the infamous June 27 presidential debate in which his brain malfunctioned on multiple occasions, then-President Joe Biden challenged Trump to a round of golf — an empty challenge, as it happened.
According to Golf Magazine, Trump and DeChambeau did eagle the par-4 12th hole. Moreover, Trump hit a better drive on that hole than did his partner, the 2024 U.S. Open Champion.
In short, on the tiniest and most insignificant detail — Trump’s specific age — the fact check rates as false.
In every other meaningful respect, however, the fact check rings true. Trump did eagle a par-4 12th hole. He did it at age 78. And he did it by hitting a better shot than a tour professional, one of the world’s best golfers.
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