{"id":478110,"date":"2022-07-26T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lpga-legend-jan-stephenson-stood-up-donald-trump-on-a-date\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T19:24:35","slug":"lpga-legend-jan-stephenson-stood-up-donald-trump-on-a-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lpga-legend-jan-stephenson-stood-up-donald-trump-on-a-date\/","title":{"rendered":"#LPGA legend Jan Stephenson stood up Donald Trump on a date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3decc0b0256\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg 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the end of her brief relationship with former US President Donald Trump in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The now-70-year-old Stephenson was not only a champion player but also one of the most marketable women on the LPGA tour through the 1970s and 80s.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson, who was regularly seen on dates with celebrities, told SEN\u2019s\u00a0<em>This Is Your Journey\u00a0<\/em>she was first contacted by letter by Trump in 1974, asking her to represent a casino and offered to fly her to New York for a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>She said he was \u201cunbelievable, he is very romantic\u201d and the pair played golf and had regular dinners.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-05.jpg?w=673\" alt=\"Jan Stephenson\" class=\"wp-image-23208413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1346 1346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1009 1009w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=673 673w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336 336w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\"\/><figcaption>Jan Stephenson called former President Donald Trump \u201cvery romantic.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corbis\/VCG via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asked about a surprise flight to Paris for dinner, Stephenson said she had been playing in Atlanta at the time when he called her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018Hey, would you like to go to dinner?\u2019 And I said, \u2018No, I\u2019m in Atlanta, I\u2019m playing a golf tournament\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he goes, \u2018Well, I would like to take you to dinner\u2019. And I went, \u2018I\u2019m not flying to New York now because I\u2019m in Atlanta and I\u2019ve got an early tee time in the Pro-Am on Wednesday\u2019.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cSo he said, \u2018OK, well I\u2019ll fly to you and we\u2019ll go out for dinner there\u2019. And I went, \u2018OK, that\u2019s fair\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018What do you feel like?\u2019 I said, \u2018I don\u2019t care\u2019. He said, \u2018Do you like French?\u2019 I said, \u2018French would be great\u2019. I didn\u2019t know what the French was going to be like in Atlanta, but that\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI drove up to the plane and you know how they open the door and they put the little red carpet out for the plane? He didn\u2019t come out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018What is he doing?\u2019 So I came up and the captain came out and he said, \u2018I think you should come inside\u2019. I said, \u2018Why does he want me to come inside for?\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went into the plane, and it was full of red roses and there was one seat open with one rose and a little envelope. It said, \u2018We have reservations\u2019, and it was at some French restaurant.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-02.jpg?w=691\" alt=\"Jan Stephenson\" class=\"wp-image-23208484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1382 1382w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1037 1036w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=691 691w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=346 345w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Jan-Stephenson-donald-trump-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\"\/><figcaption>Jan Stephenson said she chose golf over former President Donald Trump. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Is this in Atlanta?\u2019 And he went, \u2018No, this is not in Atlanta\u2019 and we\u2019re ready to take you to this French restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took the one rose and I put, \u2018Thank you, but no thank you\u2019, and I put the note back on the seat and left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that was the night where pretty much \u2026 I talked to him that night and he said, \u2018I guess you\u2019re going to chose golf over me?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Yeah\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Trump was reportedly dating his first wife Ivana as well and the pair married in 1977.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Asked about if Trump had wanted Stephenson to give up golf to be with him, she said: \u201cWe talked about it a little and then he started Ivana while he was still seeing me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said \u2018I\u2019ve met a woman who reminds me so much of you, she\u2019s smart, she\u2019s an athlete, I don\u2019t want just anyone from New York, I want someone who can be part of my business\u2019. And I said \u2018well I really can\u2019t do that\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added the pair continued to be in contact and Trump said she could always reconsider and play at one of his courses Winged Foot, but Stephenson replied: \u201cNo, it\u2019s not like winning a US Open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the sex symbol image didn\u2019t always sit well with Stephenson who after winning the US Women\u2019s Open in 1983 rejected the label.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always thought it was a compliment (to be considered a glamour girl), but an undeserved one,\u201d Stephenson said at the time. \u201cThere are a lot of pretty girls on the tour and I keep expecting people to say something about them. But you have to win, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really feel as if I\u2019m a glamour girl or a sex symbol because the most important thing to me is golf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, sure, I still care about how I look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The label <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared to have stuck after her 1977 cover feature on\u00a0<em>Sport Magazine<\/em>\u2019s \u201cSex in sports\u201d edition, where she was photographed braless for the cover wearing a pink top.<\/p>\n<p>When she was told of the picture they were using, Stephenson tried to get the editor to use a different picture, but it had already gone to print.<\/p>\n<p>She then became the face of the tour but bristled against the sex symbol label, wanting to prove she was one of the best players in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Stephenson was inducted into the World Gold Hall of Fame, tallying 20 career victories, including 16 on the LPGA Tour.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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