Harry Kane confirmed he played a round of golf with Donald Trump in Palm Beach about 18 months ago, and said the invite came from the U.S. president himself. The England captain described it as a pretty surreal experience and added that Trump’s golf was pretty good.
Kane was speaking in Miami ahead of Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against Norway, where the 32-year-old is trying to keep his focus on football after an unusual brush with American politics. He said he hoped to play golf as well as Trump when he is 80, a line that landed as both praise and a little disbelief at the same time.
The timing matters because Trump had already gone public first. He posted on TruthSocial on Sunday that Harry Kane of England was a great player, then told reporters on Monday that he had played golf with Kane and liked him a lot. Only after that did Kane confirm the round, giving a private meeting in Florida a very public second life.
Kane said he was grateful for the invitation and described the day as unique. That is the clearest answer yet to whether the round really happened and where it took place, but one part remains unexplained: why Trump wanted to bring Kane out to play in Palm Beach in the first place.
There was a lighter football note in the same session. Kane said Sir David Beckham had wished England luck when he met the team before their training session at the Inter Miami facility in Fort Lauderdale on Friday afternoon, a reminder that the build-up to Saturday is being shaped by familiar faces as much as by the quarter-final itself.
