Tiger Woods: Bill Clinton Cheats at Golf, Too

NewsMax ^ | 1 June 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

In Arkansas for a children's golf clinic, Tiger Woods was asked about playing golf with former President Bill Clinton.

"Interesting math," Woods said, drawing a laugh before telling a story about a round the two played in February before the opening of the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, Calif.

Woods described a hole on the back nine.

"President Clinton rolls one in the bushes, then hits another one off the tee ... right in the middle of the fairway, hits a nice little wedge shot up there to about, I don't know, 6-7 feet.

"I hit a bad pitch, I blasted it by about 12 feet. ... Then all of the sudden, he does one of these," Woods said, gesturing like a player picking up his ball.

"It was 6-7 feet and he walked off the green. ... So I'm sitting in the cart. He's writing down the numbers, I happen to kind of ..." Woods said, leaning back as if reading a scorecard over someone's shoulder.

"Woods 4, Clinton 3."

On a more serious note, Woods said playing with Clinton was fascinating.

"We had a good time," Woods said. "He was a cool person to play with, very intelligent. Brilliant, the things that he knew to describe world politics ... actually really remarkable."

[FDNYRHEROES]

Imagine that...The first black president being dissed by another...golfer

[Fruitbat]

"We had a good time," Woods said. "He was a cool person to play with, very intelligent. Brilliant, the things that he knew to describe world politics ... actually really remarkable."

An intelligent, shrewd, and cunning cheater! The worst kind of human being.

[TET1968]

"He was a cool person to play with, very intelligent. Brilliant, the things that he knew to describe world politics ... actually really remarkable."

Someone just turned in his grave.

[Enchante]

BJ cheats at LIFE..... rules, ethics, decency.... trivial concepts meant only for the little people. He's so far above us all, you know.......

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Tiger did hold back one story that bill told him..about the time he had the hole in one with when he played Monica's back nine not to mention that he lost his ball in her ruff.

[A CA Guy]

Bet Tiger didn't allow his wife to be alone with Bill.

[staytrue]

By Ann Devroy and Ruth Marcus
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON

A senior White House official was forced to resign Thursday after he and a colleague took the presidential helicopter, Marine One, from Washington to a private country club near Camp David, Md., for an afternoon golf game Tuesday.

David Watkins, director of the White House Office of Administration and one of the Arkansas friends President Clinton brought with him to Washington, submitted his resignation after his outing with Alphonso Maldon Jr., director of the White House Military Office, became public.

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as an aside, this is the same guy who used campaign funds to pay for a hooker. The clinton campaign later paid an FEC fine for this too.

[staytrue]

I may be wrong about the prostitute

http://gfreitag.tripod.com/Criminal_List.html


"David Watkins - Clinton/Gore campaign manager, Assistant to President Clinton for Management and Administration. He resigned after using the presidential helicopter, at a cost of $13,000, for a golf outing. He also used $37,000 from the Clinton '92 campaign to pay off a sexual harrassment charge.
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[Rte66]

Please don't tell us it was Ike. I won't believe it.

[Rte66]

That's how I feel, too. The cult of Tiger always does this.

[Rte66]

Personally, I was anxious to see whether Hill & Bill were singing along with the hymn, "Great is Thy Faithfulness," at Bentsen's funeral yesterday - but the camera wouldn't go there!

[David Allen]

that really blows

[karnage]

Yes, the looming horror of Hildebeast...

[stillonaroll]

Tiger Woods: Bill Clinton Cheats at Golf, Too

A similar story is described in Dereliction of Duty, by one of Clinton’s military aides—one who carried the nuclear football—about BJ’s golf cheating.

[wideminded]

Please don't tell us it was Ike.

No, but he was mentioned as the most competitive presidential golfer. Also IIRC the author stated that Ike played 800 times in 8 years. I remember seeing a cartoon once that showed someone with Ike talking to the party ahead of them on the golf course. He was saying, "They've just bombed New York. Can we play through?"

[babydoll22]

You couldn't be more correct.

I have always maintained that if I could play golf with someone, by the end of the round, I would know enough about that person's character to decide wether or not I wanted to do business with that person or wanted them as a friend.

[Aquinasfan]

If it wasn't for mulligans, my score would be in the 200s! 8-)

[Mr. Brightside]

Didn't Bill cheat Chelsea at miniature golf?

[Barney59]

It's truly a character issue with the former President. He may be bright but that doesn't mean he's right.

Excerpt from Arnold Haultain's The Mystery of Golf (circa 1898):

Chapter XII

Golf – a Test of Character

Golf seems to bring the man, the very inmost man, into contact with the man, the very inmost man. In football and hockey you come into intimate – and often forcible enough – contact with the outer man; chess is a clash of intellects; but in golf character is laid bare to character. This is why so many friendships – and some enmities – are formed on the links. In spite of the ceremony with which the game is played: the elaborate etiquette, the punctilious adhesion to the honour, the enforced silence during the address, the rigid observance of rules, few if any games so strip a man of the conventional and the artificial. In a single round you can sum up a man, can say whether he be truthful, courageous, honest, upright, generous, sincere, slow to anger – or the reverse. – Of these arcane of golf the uninitiated onlooker knows nothing. Yet if ever that onlooker is initiated into these Eleusinian mysteries, he changes his mind and sees in the links a school for the disciplinary exercise of a cynical or stoical self-command rivaling that of the Cynosarges or the Porch.

Not only is golf an excellent test of character, it is also an excellent medicament for character. If we only know it, there is a whole Materia Medica between sand-box and flag. The volatile can find, if he will, a sedative; the phlegmatic, an alternative; the neurasthenic, a tonic. And it is a test of character in more ways than one: the cheat simply could not play golf: in the last resort, no one would play with him. It is also a test of tact. Many a man has to learn how to lend a deaf ear politely to a loquacious friend, or to curb his own tongue when playing with a taciturn one; and probably there is no one but has had on some occasion or other to keep his own temper sweet while the atmosphere about him was mephitic with a surly silence or rent by vituperative abuse.

Note italics are my emphasis.

[spinestein]

[If someone will cheat at a game , why wouldn't they do the same in a business deal?]



That's why I don't form friendships with people who cheat on their spouses. How could I trust them?