NY Times White House Reporter: "According to accounts from Mr. Rosaforte, who emerged as the best source of information."
Jackie Calmes of the NY Times and sequestered White House press corps tries to piece together Barack Obama's all-golf weekend and admits to relying on Golf World's Tim Rosaforte for most information from The Floridian where the President played with Tiger Woods Sunday.
Mr. Obama arrived for Sunday’s game well-practiced and primed for 36 holes, according to accounts from Mr. Rosaforte, who emerged as the best source of information. While the small pool of White House reporters and photographers remained out of sight, restricted to a bus just inside the resort’s iron gates and reliant on Mr. Earnest for sparse details, Mr. Rosaforte apparently was allowed access to the grounds and the elite group.
“The president loves his golf,” he reported on the Golf Channel after Saturday’s long outing.
Mr. Obama played 18 holes on Saturday, broke for lunch and then went straight to a driving range for practice with the Harmons, Mr. Rosaforte said. Nine more holes followed, with the team of Mr. Obama and Butch Harmon winning and “taking a couple bucks off” the others, Mr. Rosaforte added, and then Mr. Obama headed to the Harmons’ Learning Center “and beat balls for almost an hour.”
The coaches said they had instructed Mr. Obama on “pretty simple stuff,” Mr. Rosaforte said, like advising the left-handed president on how to better align his right shoulder when he swings.
“The president,” he added, “walked over to say that Butch had given him a couple things to work on — big smile on his face.”
Since the White House has released no images from the day, we'll just go with the Golf Digest cover posted at GolfDigest.com for the most accurate representation of the day.
Rosie also did his best Christiane Amanpour impression, hunkered down in a dark room as bombs went off in the background, telling an MSNBC anchor about the day. Other than the guy calling him Jim at one point instead of Tim, I'd say it was a big day in golf press history!
Geoff
**Rosaforte with more details about the weekend in Golf World Monday, including Obama complimenting Tiger on his recent win after apparently having watched the dreadfully slow Monday finish. Hopefully it was the edited Golf Channel replay.
Reader Comments (39)
Bush wasn't there.
What kind of shape would the US be in... not some smart a answer ...''better, fer shur, snort''. A real answer. McCain....really?
BOOM, baby!
not a coincidence.
obama runs a never ending campaign because he knows that he can't be held accountable for actually governing. this explains why Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the direction of the country, yet they support obama.
he takes on the role through campaigning as the guy trying to fix things, as if he is rooting out all the bad guys in washington and cleaning up bush's mistakes.
americans love his speeches about what is wrong and that he's planning to fix them, but until people start informing themselves and realize obama isn't fixing anything, but instead he is the problem and its obamas very own policies that are creating the slowest recovery in history, lack of jobs, decreased family income, a stock market that has increased only because fed has pumped money into the system and no one wants to put it into creating jobs. instead they have to stick it somewhere so the market is only option, things will get worse.
obama is the problem, but some of you can continue to believe that he's working on fixing things just because of the complicit media and his never ending campaign, and our only problem is the gop is getting in his way. until people start thinking for themselves instead of letting the media tell you what to think obama will be the savior to the country and times person of the year as our economy and jobs continue to shrink.
hope obama is getting that golf game figured out this weekend.
I'm going to assume that was sarcasm. :) If not, buddy, you need to get out more! :)
Always go with your first guess.
I miss the days before folks got all political here.
I would have thought by now that someone would have commented on their pace of play. Tiger didn't slow play on POTUS? ;)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/14/opinion/20081014_OPCHART.html
Damn Democrats. All they can do is pump up the stock market. Based on the S&P link on my iPhone that big blue circle would now be worth about $485,000. Awful. Just awful. Those socialists at Bloomberg must be all wrong with the data. As are the dweebs at the BLS, who tell me that unemployment peaked in October 2009 at 10% and is currently at 7.8%. Still way too high, but a 22% improvement. But we do agree on one thing. The KenyanMuslimSocialistUsuperDroneMaster has been a disappointing president.
Pete? He started it! ;-) Excuse didn't work, did it? Never worked with my mother either. LOL.
My screen (and first) name has been hijacked by a dissatisfied member of our electorate. I am now back to moniker number 22B.
RES (formerly Roger, formerly Fo Shiz circa 2009)
Oh man. I just totally outed myself.
Low information voters and supporters of Obama's policies increasing gov dependence are a direct results of diminishing values and intellect of Americans. i suppose that is fox news talking points.
I'm neither rich or hate the poor, i just understand that some people lack common sense and believe anything a liberla news network puts on air.
Go watch Ben Carson's speech and tell me he wouldn't make a better leader of the free world. Cant wait to see Obama playing tons of golf after 2016.
What a disgrace as a debate moderator.
To the American media: RIP, nice knowin' ya.
"Here’s my solution (to health care). When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record and a health savings account [HSA], to which money can be contributed, pre-tax from the time you are born, to the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members" Dr. Carson is a pediatric neurosurgeon, justly famous for the first hemispherectomy, among other operations. But to even imagine that any HSA for any person not of significant means could pay for any one of his moderately complex operations (including diagnosis, pre-op care, surgery, 5-15 days in neurosurgical intensive care, after care) at Johns Hopkins Hospital is patently ludicrous Don't believe me? Start with $2000 at year zero. Add $2000 a year. Assume the money is never tapped. At 5% a year (compounded once per year) here is what you have after 5 years: $14,156; 10 years: $29,671; 15 years: $49,473; 20 years: $74,745; 30 years: $148,165. Still not anywhere near the goal. 40 years: $268,000. Not yet. 45 years: $353,000. Getting close. 50 years: $462,565. That might do it. Neglecting inflation and offsetting increases in the yearly contribution. Of course, the HSA can never be used for anything else during that 50 years. So there is that, too.
Is it interesting that I play golf LEFT handed? Does that say something deep down inside? I'll ponder that on the ride home tonight....
:)
This combined with the fact that doctors may be 99% what the diagnosis is, but they have to run tests running ten of thousands of dollars just to prevent a malpractice suit in the future.
The idea that all you need is insurance and you can get whatever medical care you want is going to drive prices up. yes, the poor need health care, but insurance should be used for operations that ben carson is doing, insurance should not be used for a strained hamstring or sore throat.
A lifetime HSA would be a good way for people to decide if they really need the treatment and excessive visits to the doctor because they have a ear ache. and when you tell the doc your ear is sore, they shouldn't run a brain scan if they are sure the remedy is a good nights sleep.
ben carson doesn't solve all the problems in his idea, but he comes a million miles closer than obamacare ever will.
Now that the place has been cleared of all the terrorists and only subject to the occasional desert shamal and spontaneous protest.
Disagreements from both sides of arguments turn in to your an idiot, you don't agree with me.
The problem in this country, is not that President Obama and the democrats are idiots,
or that George Bush and the Republicans are.
The problem is that half the country thinks Obama is great, and agrees with their beliefs,
and the other half believes in a different vision.
And they are both right, in their beliefs at least. Unfortunately both sides of issues
devolve into mule headed arguing to prove they are right
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you sound just as uninformed as most obama sheep, and your last post did nothing to convince me that you have ever thought for yourself. how many voters supporting obama can explain why they like obama instead of shrugging their shoulders and saying he helps the poor, or romney is just for the rich, or some other nonsense. obama supporters are a majority of low information, low intellect voters. that is a fact.
higher debt, higher deficit, 18 million more people on food stamps, 4 million less people employed, lower family incomes, double prices of gas, billions wasted on green energy projects that failed, do you need more. yet the media portrays this fool as person of the year and tells people everything is getting better. when the stock market is the next thing to crash are obama supporters going to kneel before him waiting for his next promise to 'fix' the problem instead of maybe thinking obama is the problem.
Rather than deal with our reality, Obama chose the Carnival Cruise Line method of public relations - misinformation, denial and delusion. He has embraced the Big Lie concept as if he had created it. Our cruise of illusions and delusions is headed for troubled water.
The math challenged citizens on this ship have been enjoying the 24 hour pizza buffet without the labor required to pay for the bounty. This voyage is reaching an end and the bill is coming due. The engine is on fire but the captain is telling us all is well. Eventually, everyone will know the captain lied.