[Aussie Dasher]

BJ cheats at EVERYTHING....

[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.

[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.

[Moonman62]

"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."

Hey Tiger, he was lying about that too.

[kevkrom]

For the record, I also cheat at golf... sort of. Normally, I'll play it as it lies, but on a casual day of golf, if I'm having a bad enough day to slow down the pace of play, I'm not averse to using the occasional "hand wedge" or taking an occassional free drop when it's not warranted. Or even a mulligan or two off of the tee.

This both keeps me from getting too frustrated and from slowing down groups behind me. But I'd never pretend the score I got on those holes would be legit.

In any sort of competition, however, I'm "by the book".

[WKUHilltopper]

Tiger: No, Mr. President...the term is 'hole in one'. Not 'hole for one'.

[Verginius Rufus]

I recall an article about a game where Clinton had supposedly been completely honest in reporting his score, no mulligans. The guy who researched it discovered he had taken mulligans that game too.

Clinton used to like to play with Vernon Jordan...that was talked about during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.