{"id":26548,"date":"2025-11-11T22:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/president-trump-tiger-gives-advice-to-kai-trump-ahead-of-lpga-debut\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:27:46","slug":"president-trump-tiger-gives-advice-to-kai-trump-ahead-of-lpga-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/president-trump-tiger-gives-advice-to-kai-trump-ahead-of-lpga-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump, Tiger gives advice to Kai Trump ahead of LPGA debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kai Trump prepared for his first LPGA Tour event this week with words of wisdom from the 15-time major champion and president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Their advice: &#8220;Have fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Trump spoke to reporters Tuesday, two days before teeing off at Annika at Pelican Golf Club in Bellaire, Florida. The 18-year-old said her grandfather, President Donald Trump, and Tiger Woods both contacted her ahead of the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Tiger) told me to go out and have fun and just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump is the eldest son of Donald Trump Jr. The University of Miami, a social media favorite, received an invitation from a sponsor to attend an LPGA event hosted by Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said his grandfather advised him to stay calm this week: &#8220;Don&#8217;t be nervous. Try your best not to be nervous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Trump himself is an avid golfer, and Kai said the two have shared a lot of time on the course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s very good,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Trump was asked if he had ever hit him and refused to answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll leave that to your discretion,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. We play a lot. We have a great time there. We&#8217;re always the same team, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1111%2Fr1574322_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1111%2Fr1574322_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1111%2Fr1574322_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1111%2Fr1574322_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Trump added that his grandfather will not be attending the ceremony in Florida this week.<\/p>\n<p>But many other great players are scheduled to participate in the event, including defending champion Nelly Korda and WNBA star Caitlin Clark, who will participate in Wednesday&#8217;s pro-am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the players here are great and good at what they do. It&#8217;s really great to be in the ropes and on the practice field with them,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re going to learn a lot watching them play throughout the week. It&#8217;s been great so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, currently No. 461 in the United States Junior Golf Association rankings, will tee up with Olivia Cowan and Hinako Shibuno on Thursday at 12:32 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kai Trump prepared for his first LPGA Tour event this week with words of wisdom from the 15-time major champion and president of the United States. Their advice: &#8220;Have fun.&#8221; President Trump spoke to reporters Tuesday, two days before teeing off at Annika at Pelican Golf Club in Bellaire, Florida. The 18-year-old said her grandfather, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-26548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}