How you can maybe, sort of, blame Stacy Lewis’ Saturday collapse at the U.S. Women’s Open on President Trump’s security detail
With four straight birdies mid-way through her third round at the U.S. Women’s Open, and five in a seven-hole stretch, Stacy Lewis climbed within one-stroke of the lead on a finally sunny afternoon at Trump National Bedminster. That the former World No. 1, who hasn’t won on the LPGA Tour since 2014, would be in the hunt had the potential to juice up the excitement level for the biggest championship in women’s golf.
Yet as quickly as she became a factor, the 32-year-old Lewis saw her Open chances fade away with a triple-bogey 7 on the par-4 11th hole. It was a stumble that seemed inexplicable in the moment, which is why the highly cynical among us had to figure out somebody to blame other than Lewis for the collapse. Thankfully, a loose use of the transitive property allows us to point the blame squarely in another direction: at President Donald Trump’s security detail.