Now That's A T-Shirt!
/Captured by reader Jay in a U.S. airport (click on it to enlarge):
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
“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.
Read MoreHot, Flat And Not Crowded: Obama Tees It Up With Friedman
/They played the course at Andrews Air Force Base. This ought to be an interesting column. Wednesday I suspect?
Read MoreObama Takes Time Out From Busy Schedule To Broker Peace Accord Between Norman, Finchem
/...and to scuff up the President's Oval Office desk with the Presidents Cup trophy. Helen Ross reports on the events of the day, including a meeting with Joe Biden beforehand. The happy gang:
Where's Marty Hackel When You Need Him? Obama White Sox Edition **
/Okay, the White Sox jacket at the All-Star game was one thing, but white socks with dark slacks?
Read MoreWoods Golfing With Obama?
/Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa of the Boston Herald report that an Obama-Woods round at The Vineyard is rumored. Only one problem: the timing laid out in the story doesn't add up.
Read More"Golf says, 'I like Lipitor and white collar crime.'"
/The Obama haters and Bill Maher can rejoice in agreeing on the sheer awfulness of the President's love for golf:
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