When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
"Sunny fore-cast in Hawaii! America's East Coast toils under two feet of snow and where's the president... he's golfing AGAIN"
/Clearly, the Daily Mail has run out of stories this week if they think the President should cancel his golf to monitor snow drifts!
Read MoreTraces Of Bailed-Out Auto Manufacturer Money To Go In Player, Network Pockets Over Next Four Years
/Not only is GM's Cadillac sponsoring Doral, but they'll be the umbrella sponsor of all WGC events. I'm sure you all know what that means, but just in case...
Read MoreSirak: Obama Should Get Boehner On The Golf Course**
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Ron Sirak wants to see them make deals over a round of golf. Somehow I don't see that ending well.
Boehner is well known for using the golf course to conduct business. Federal Election Commission filings obtained by the Reuters news agency showed that Boehner's political action committee spent $82,998 on golf outings in 2009, including events at Robert Trent Jones GC in Virginia, Muirfield Village near Columbus, Ohio and the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla. "If you're going to ask people to give you money, why not let them enjoy themselves," Boehner told Golf Digest in 2005. Boehner said he doesn't discriminate against lobbyists who don't play golf, but added, "If someone I've gotten to know on the golf course comes into my office with a good argument, I tend to want to listen."
Update on 2010-11-05 02:27 by Geoff
**Russell Berman of The Hill makes it sound like the chances are slim.
Boehner has said their Oval Office chit-chat is mostly focused on golf, a sport that the Ohio Republican is better at than the president.
“First thing that happens is, you know, I come in and he’ll say, ‘Boehner, you’re almost as dark as me,’ ” Boehner told Fox News host Sean Hannity last month. “You know, I listen. We talk about golf. We’ll talk about our skin color.”
“There’s no animosity, but there’s not much of a personal relationship or a working relationship,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said on Wednesday.
“In a lot of ways, I think President Obama could help with the perception of golf."
/I kept waiting for the PGA Tour's finest to whiff when answering Bill Pennington's questions about Barack Obama's love of golf. Miraculously, they sounded sincerely happy that the President is an avid golfer.
Read MoreNow That's A T-Shirt!
/Captured by reader Jay in a U.S. airport (click on it to enlarge):
“Very seldom do people look at a president golfing with admiring eyes."
/Alexander Bolton files an interesting look at Barack Obama's golf addiction after calls that he stop playing until the BP oil leak has been plugged. Bolton also looks at past pressures on Presidents to curtail their golf in the face of criticism.
Read More"Wie puncuated her visit by draping a lei, a Hawaiian garland, around Obama's neck."
/Sounds like our victorious Solheim Cup team embraced their White House trip unlike some of those cranky Ryder Cup teams of the past.
Read More"Why has Barack Obama forsaken basketball for the links?"
/The WSJ's Elizabeth Williamson tries to get the lowdown on Obama's love of golf over basketball, but doesn't resolve the matter. She does, however, share this about the security situation in case you were thinking of lacing a range ball with a bomb, think again. (Thanks reader Paul for the link.)
Read More"I'm glad Barack Obama plays golf and doesn't care who knows it."
/I guess Bob Carney finally got tired of all the frustrated losers writing Golf Digest letters for noticing that our President not only is playing golf, but not hiding and doing it at a time when the game could use all of the positive publicity it can get.
Read More"This golf-cart fiasco perfectly illustrates tax policy in the age of Obama, when politicians dole out credits and loopholes for everything from plug-in cars to fuel efficient appliances, home insulation and vitamins."
/The Wall Street Journal offered a tough and unbylined critique of a federal tax credit on high-mileage cars "that was part of President Obama's stimulus plan," and which is now being used "to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart."
Read More"The USGA is trying to figure out how to connect with Obama"
/That's according to Michael Bamberger who certainly has been putting in the time listening to USGA Exec Committee types and reporting in this week's SI roundtable.
The subject was Obama and golf:
Bamberger: The USGA is trying to figure out how to connect with Obama, and if they could what a home run that could be.
Wouldn't you love to be in on those meeting discussions with Executive Director David Fay?
XC Member: David, since you're the only known Democrat associated with the USGA post Hannigan--well at least until we started paying you $700,000 a year--do you have any contacts in the upper reaches of the Democratic party? We are seeing Obama in a spot for the First Tee or maybe even an "I swing like a girl" piece. What do you think?
Fay: I think he's a little busy.
XC Member: Well, could you try please?
No Column Out Of Obama Round?
/He's had three New York Times columns since teeing it up with President Obama, and I'm beginning to think that a condition of getting to play with the President, Thomas Friedman was not allowed to write about the day.
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