eighteen holes

“Eighteen holes around here, you can make up ground in a hurry, so that’s kind of what I need to do tomorrow.”

“Eighteen holes with him is a long time,” Koepka said Monday evening.

"Eighteen holes with him is a long time," Koepka said Monday evening.

“Eighteen holes, plus six guys have to do media that day. We have a gala dinner that night, so Tuesday, we’re gonna be pretty stressed out and tired.”

Given that this came only a couple hours after the Washington Post reported that Trump recently installed a “room-sized ‘golf simulator’ ” in the White House, at a cost of roughly fifty thousand dollars, so that he can play a full eighteen holes without leaving the property, it seemed like a moment to remember how tenuous the line between parody and political reality has become in Trump’s Washington.