Obama Has Shot 41 Rounds of Golf as President

White House Dossier ^ | July 15, 2010 | Keith Koffler

[RobinMasters]

President Barack Obama has played a remarkable 41 rounds of golf since becoming president, easily outpacing his predecessor and possibly damaging his ability to portray himself in 2012 as a populist advocate of average folks.

With the excursions lasting on average at least five hours, the president has devoted a total of more than 200 hours to golf, not counting time spent on the White House putting green. That’s the equivalent of twenty five eight-hour work days, or five work weeks spent smacking golf balls.

The former community organizer’s 41 trips around the links – a standard of recreational activity well beyond the budgets of most Americans – compares to only 24 total outings for former President George W. Bush, according to statistics compiled by White House chronicler Mark Knoller of CBS News. Bush, whose golf outings were used to help deride him as a callow, lazy, rich boy, played his 24th and last round on Oct. 13, 2003, saying he was ending the practice out of respect for the families of Americans killed in Iraq.

[bigbob]

this takes a lot of balls

[PugetSoundSoldier]

What is his handicap?

Chronically delusional.

[BradyBug]

I personally think the golf course is the best place for 0bama and congress for that matter - the more they play, the less they can screw things up

[Mind-numbed Robot]

A community organizer has to keep in practice. That being President stuff is taken care of by somebody else, anyway. Just let him shower and change clothes, give him a teleprompter, and he is ready to be President again.

[Incorrigible]

Bump! I needed these stats.

[rigelkentaurus]

I wish hussein and biden played golf 24x7 preferably in another country, without access to telecommunications.

[opentalk]

He seems like a spokes person in a TV commercial. He is called in to give the PR message - not that involved otherwise.

The constant Golfing erodes his marketing facade

[MinuteGal]

"This is an idiotic battle to pick."

Winning both large and small battles on all fronts wins the war.

Confucias say "death by a hundred cuts, slices and hooks......"

Leni

[mplsconservative]

I’ve devoted 200 hours to golf in the past month. Who cares?

You ignored my comments about weekly Wednesday parties, all of the vacations, etc. Combined with the amount of golf he plays, 0bama is always goofing off on the taxpayer dime. It's not just the golf.

Welcome to FR, BTW. You may not be golfing as much since you joined. FR is very addictive. :)

[bjorn14]

As much as I hate Osama Obama, I have to cut him a little slack on this. He’s been in office 82 weeks and that is about 1 round every ten or so days. Everybody has a hobby its just that the perception has become the reality

[Flag_This]

"So was Eisenhower, who played golf every moment he could. Picking on Obama over his golf time is petty. Let it be."

Yeah, but see, Eisenhower actually worked and demonstrated at least some competence in his day job; Obama, not so much.

[Mare]

“It’s not the fact that he golfs - I really couldn’t care less if he wants to spend his Saturday afternoon golfing. Everyone needs to unwind.”

I totally agree with you. The only thing that comes to mind for him to unwind from is all his travels.

[Roccus]

I’m thinkin’ you meant that for Post #13 and not mine.

[FreeAtlanta]

Don't forget the 1 hole 3 tee course at Camp David. That probably adds another 10 or more tee times to Obama's haughtiness.

[FreeAtlanta]

Death by a thousand cuts. He is doing this to himself, we are just pointing it out to everyday Americans who 1). can't afford to golf 2). Don't have time to golf or this much time to golf and 3). It is supposed to be a 24x7 job for 4 to 8 stinking little years. Why so much golf, vacation, parties, fund raising and just plane goofing around? It isn't that hard a job, he just needs to stay at his desk some.

Grief, it is a new job. What is the standard # of vacations for a new job? 2 weeks? He is disgusting and is content with bankrupting our nation.

BTW Mr. Skip Away, did you just sign up May, 10th 2010 to defend the GOTUS golfing addiction?

[FreeAtlanta]

I do agree with you that he is worthless and he might as well be out of Washington, but I also think his obsessive golfing shows is elitist and out of touch personality and will help us suppress the leftist vote. So, yeah, I hope he keeps hitting the stupid little ball.

[mplsconservative]

....No. It’s just totally idiotic and tacky to complain about something so irrelevant....

All hail 0bama! Until you answer my questions, which I've asked twice, you're a troll in my book.