Pro golf greats discuss South Africa with Trump, country’s president in tense meeting between leaders

A pair of high-profile South African golfers were thrown into a tense exchange at the White House Wednesday. 

Ernie Els and Retief Goosen joined Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, for a meeting in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump.

While the meeting between the two leaders got off to a cordial start, the tenor of the meeting took a noticeable turn when Trump confronted Ramaphosa with a video that allegedly showed grave treatment of white farmers. Trump also presented Ramaphosa with documents he claimed were accounts of killings of "thousands" of Afrikaners.

Ramaphosa offered multiple denials to the claims and made it clear the statements made in the videos were not representative of his government's p...