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To: LindyBill who wrote (458051)	11/26/2011 5:23:48 PM
From: Triffin	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794294

RE: Presidential Golfers Looks like Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower are still leading Obama in the "time on the links" while President category .. ===== When Eisenhower became president there was no doubt in the minds of most Americans that he loved golf. Early in his presidential years the United States Golf Association, using privately donated money, built a two-hole putting green with a small sand trap on the White House lawn near the Oval Office. He kept one of his irons in the office so that he could step out to the lawn and practice his swing. During his White House years Ike managed, on average, to play golf about two times a week. Most of these outings were on courses near Washington, but his favorite course was Augusta. The founders, famous golfer Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones and financier Clifford Roberts were Eisenhower’s personal friends. They even erected a small cottage on the grounds where Ike and Mamie could have some privacy during a golfing weekend. At Augusta Ike got to know Arnold Palmer and the two men became close friends. Ike’s detractors always complained that President Eisenhower spent more time playing golf than minding the people’s business, but, contrary to the advice of his aides, he never tried to conceal any of his outings to the links. He used many of these occasions to do the kind of personal networking that kept him in touch with the nation’s other leaders, and he seems as well to have used golfing as a means of convincing the American people to remain calm during the frequent crises of the Cold War. If the president could relax then perhaps the people could too. So the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first earth orbiting satellite, and the media and much of the populace panicked about communist missile development, Ike left the White House for a two day golfing outing at Gettysburg. People knew that Eisenhower grew up in a rural town on the wrong side of the tracks and was not wealthy. Most Americans looked at him as “one of us.” Prior to Ike’s presidency much of the population thought of golf as a rich man’s sport. But Ike’s constant endorsement of the game seems to have helped change this perception. During his presidency the number of golfers in the United States more than doubled, and people began attending golf events as spectators. It was thus entirely fitting that Arnold Palmer spoke to Congress in 1990 at the joint session celebrating Ike’s 100th birthday. Was Ike the most ardent golfer to inhabit the White House? Not by a long shot. Woodrow Wilson, who did everything possible to keep his golf from the public’s eye, played over 1,200 rounds while he was in the White House. Ike, however, played only about 800 rounds during his presidency, about two a week. ===== Triff ..

To: LindyBill who wrote (458051)	11/26/2011 8:32:05 PM
From: Bill	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794294

It’s his 30th time golfing this year and the 88th golf outing of his presidency. I wonder how many times he's visited Walter Reed...