Via CBS News’ Mark Knoller, President Obama played his 300th round of golf this weekend as president:
Pres Obama & @LAClippers Chris Paul watch fellow golfers finish putting on 1st hole of @POTUS 300th round of golf. pic.twitter.com/51VJyf3Wjf
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 7, 2016
In other words, he’ll spend almost a year of his two terms as president on the golf course. Fantastic.
Knoller even took the time to categorize who President Obama plays golf with the most and who he avoids like the plague:
Pres Obama's most frequent golf courses and partners. How well does he play and why he likes golf? My webpiece: https://t.co/gVtYQehXJr
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 7, 2016
First up, Obama’s favs:
Mr. Obama’s most frequent golf partners are current and former White House aides. Trip Director Marvin Nicholson has played 186 times, by my count. The golfer-in-chief also likes to play with pals from Hawaii and Chicago, and sports figures -including retired NBA star Alonzo Mourning – who has played 14 times with the president. His foursome today at Farm Neck on Martha’s included Chris Paul of the L.A. Clippers.
And now for the people that very rarely ever earn a coveted round of golf with the most powerful man in the world:
It has not escaped notice that Mr. Obama has rarely invited women to play golf. On only three occasions to date have women joined him on the links: then-White House Domestic Policy Advisor Melody Barnes once on Oct. 25, 2009, and then-HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Oct. 10, 2010 and again on May 18, 2013.
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Only 3 rounds out of 100 have been played with women, and none since 2013? How can this be when we were just told by President Obama himself that he’s totally a feminist:
.@POTUS explains what feminism means in 2016: https://t.co/4nOxaksCaJ
— Glamour (@glamourmag) August 7, 2016
Apparently treating women as equals on the golf course isn’t what it means to be a feminist in 2016.
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