A USA Today column on Thursday said the reputations of golf greats Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player were sullied, forever because they accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump a day after he incited the extremist attack on the Capitol that left five people dead.

They willingly chose to accept an award from Trump and be seen with him a day after his words and actions launched one of the most shameful incidents in U.S. history, Christine Brennan wrote in the op-ed.

The golf greats had nothing to do with the insurrection of the Trump mob on Wednesday, of course, but they happily became Trumps Thursday accessories, Brennan continued. They celebrated with him as our nation mourns what he has wrought.