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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 13: UFC president Dana White stands in the ring during the UFC 236 event at State Farm Arena on April 13, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images)
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 13: UFC president Dana White stands in the ring during the UFC 236 event at State Farm Arena on April 13, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images)
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HYOGO, JAPAN - APRIL 22: Kimie Bessho, 73, the table tennis Paralympian, is photographed in Hyogo, Japan, on Apr 22, 2021. Bessho is known as the butterfly lady as she wears colorful clips in her hair.
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TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 22: People wearing face masks walk past the Olympic Rings on January 22, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. With just six months to go until the start of the Games, it has been reported that the Japanese authorities have privately concluded that the Olympics could not proceed due to the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Spokesmen from the IOC and Japanese government have since rejected the report. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
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Olympic Rings are seen near the National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Tokyo on January 8, 2021, as Tokyo Olympics organisers insisted that the coronavirus-postponed Games will still go ahead despite Japan declaring a state of emergency less than 200 days before the opening ceremony. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP) (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Spectators walk into Melbourne Park ahead of the first round matches at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021.(AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks with the Olympic rings in the background in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. Opposition to the Tokyo Olympics is growing with calls for a cancellation as virus cases rise in Japan. The International Olympic Committee and local organizers have already said another postponement is impossible, leaving cancellation, or going ahead, as the only options. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 01: Sofia Kenin of the United States poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after her Women's Singles?Final match against Garbine Muguruza of Spain> on day thirteen of the 2020 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on February 01, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
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An unidentified tennis player exercises in her hotel room in Melbourne in January 17, 2021, where players are quarantining for two weeks ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)
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A man walks along a corridor past an official Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics advertisement board in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on November 30, 2020. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump said the return of sport would be good for the nation’s “psyche” as he praised a live charity golf event on Sunday.

The TaylorMade Driving Relief team game was contested between four of the sport’s top players with Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson defeating Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff at the Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Florida.

The competition raised more than $5 million for coronavirus relief charities and also marked the return of live televised golf.

No spectators were allowed in to watch the match and players completed the course without caddies.

Trump, a lifelong golf fan, dialed into NBC’s coverage to say he hoped sport would be returning to normality as soon as possible.

The US currently has 1,486,742 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 89,564 deaths, according to the latest figures.

“We want to get sports back, we miss sports, we need sports in terms of the psyche of our country,” he said.

“We really want to see it get back to normal. So when you have all those thousands, tens of thousands of people going to your majors and going to golf tournaments, we want them to have that same experience.

“We don’t want them to be having to wear masks and, you know, be doing what we’ve been doing for the last number of months.”

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Rickie Fowler, Matthew Wolff, Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson compete at the TaylorMade Driving Relief match.
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McIlroy criticism

World number one McIlroy has previously played golf with Trump but last week said he would decline a future invitation after the way the President had tried to “politicize” the pandemic.

“He’s trying to politicize it and make it a campaign rally, saying that (the US) administers the most tests in the world like it’s a contest,” he told the McKellar Golf Podcast.

“It’s just not the way a leader should act and there is a bit of diplomacy that you need to show, and I just don’t think he’s shown that, especially in these times.”

Trump did not respond directly to the Northern Irishman but said he enjoyed getting to know a number of professional golfers.

“A lot of them are very political. Some like my politics very much and some don’t. The ones that don’t I don’t get to see as much,” he said.

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‘The Match’

The recent event comes ahead of another charity golf match this Sunday when Tiger Woods and Payton Manning take on Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in what’s being dubbed, ‘The Match: Champions for Charity.’

The event is being organized jointly by the PGA Tour and WarnerMedia (the parent company of CNN) and will be a rematch of the televised clash back in 2018 between Woods and Mickelson.