Denny Samuelson

“Play the COURSE as you find it and the BALL as it lies.” Certified “Advanced” in Rules of Golf. Past USGA committee mbr. 2019 IGA volunteer of year. Go HAWKS!

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

@GovPritzker Man, you are so bad at this.

[Iowa GOP @IowaGOP]

Rob Sand says he hates the “two-party system" and "partisan politics."
Also Rob Sand:
✅Is running as a Democrat
✅Gave @iowademocrats $675,000 in two months
✅Campaigning with @DemGovs Chair Andy Beshear
✅Endorses Democrats
✅Supports the Democrat agenda
Actions speak louder than slogans. #IAGov

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

I wonder who at The White House might be able to make this happen? This man has earned it, and what a GREAT thing he's doing for people in need around America! This is what "Love Thy Neighbor" is all about🇺🇸

[Denny Samuelson @golfrulesguy]

@jopehaley @ZachLahn @IowaPod @RobSandIA @emmaobrien1496 Pound sand! There isn’t a liberal in the country, let alone I with any common sense. You aren’t getting much real life experience on your keyboard from your mother’s basement BTW.

[Susie Wiles @SusieWiles47]

After an accomplishment filled week by President Trump, I have the pleasure of reading a piece of Friday fiction, courtesy of the Daily Mail.

To be crystal clear, I am not going anywhere. I am honored and proud to serve President Trump, proud of our team and remain fully committed to advancing his agenda on behalf of the American people.

Some in the media have spent a decade trying to manufacture drama around President Trump and people who work for him. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now.

See you Monday.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[FAFO @lib_nonsense]

@Lee_in_Iowa Anyone that is on “team Pelosi” says you’re not a credible person.

[Denny Samuelson @golfrulesguy]

@jopehaley @ZachLahn @IowaPod @RobSandIA @emmaobrien1496 Nope! Sometimes the weather.

[RightWinger @eRtwngr]

@FoxNews It’s not even just a setback to the White House. It’s a setback to election integrity for the whole country. You can’t despise these jerks enough
@SenatorCollins
@SenThomTillis
@SenMcConnell
@lisamurkowski
Losers

[Denny Samuelson @golfrulesguy]

@jopehaley @ZachLahn @IowaPod @RobSandIA @emmaobrien1496 How & when? Be specific.

[Matt Nelson @MNelson_ISU]

We’ve been up to something in northeast Iowa… 👀🍺

Last Pass Lager.

Designed by our Channel SeedPros.

Created by Bremer Brewing Company in Waverly, Iowa using Channel corn.

Made for the customer as a thank you for all they do.

@ChannelSeed @Iowa_Channel

[Denny Samuelson @golfrulesguy]

@Driftless_Golf @cbadair21 And have an awesome brother @Scuba_steve60 ! I couldn’t get past the golf shop & barriers yesterday.

[Iowa Golf Assn @IowaGolfAssn]

2026 Ann Griffel Scholarship recipients!🎓

The IGAF is proud to recognize Brinley Carlson, Emma Hageman, Addie Smith, and Ava and Ella Lohrbach as this year's Ann Griffel Scholars.

To learn more about the scholars and the Ann Griffel Scholarship visit https://t.co/a51Ies3uz3

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

Politicians ruin everything they touch. For my whole life, I knew the outcomes of elections on election eve, or at the latest, in the morning when I woke up. Not anymore. This is ridiculous.

[Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author @yesnicksearcy]

@TerryMoran No. He’s just a Democrat hack like you. And the market dried up for you slobs.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Iowa Golf Assn @IowaGolfAssn]

🏆 J.D. Anderson defended his Iowa Senior Amateur title at Oneota Golf & Country Club with a 209 (-7).

Joe Ward won the Super Senior title in a dramatic 6-hole playoff. Read more: https://t.co/iuTpK3J0AF

[Rick Langel @RickLangel]

@melton4iowa That’s not transphobia, Ryan, that’s basic biology.

[BB @MidwestRide]

@melton4iowa Holy F, Melton. There’s no such thing as TransWomen and there sure as hell ain’t no such thing as men getting pregnant. God, you people constantly prove yourself dangerous to society.

[LadyPatriot 🇺🇸 @neubauer32]

@melton4iowa Ryan have you ever considered YOU have been brainwashed?

A man cannot become a woman or vice versa through wishful thinking or surgery.

This trans nonsense hurts people. It is delusional , a true mental illness.