Barack Obama, 'golfer-in-chief', played 306 rounds in office
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n 1908 President Teddy Roosevelt, an early master of media manipulation, offered some sage advice to his successors.
"Photographs of me on horseback? Yes.
Tennis? No. And golf is fatal," he wrote.President Barack Obama, when he was elected to the same office exactly 100 years later, may have been unaware of those wise words.
During his eight years in the White House Mr Obama played a total of 306 rounds of golf, a commitment to the game his opponents called excessive and frequently used to attack his work ethic.
Mr Obama's passion for golf contrasted with that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who played just 24 times in office.
Mr Bush gave up entirely in 2003 because he felt images of him playingseemed insensitive while US soldiers were fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Other golfing presidents of the modern era, including John F.
Kennedy and Bill Clinton, kept their habit away from the public eye as much as possible.Mr Obama tried to do the same but, in an era when a president's movementsare constantly documented, pictures proliferated of him pacing manicured greens studying a putt at inopportunemoments of national crisis.
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n 1908 President Teddy Roosevelt, an early master of media manipulation, offered some sage advice to his successors.
"Photographs of me on horseback? Yes.
Tennis? No. And golf is fatal," he wrote.President Barack Obama, when he was elected to the same office exactly 100 years later, may have been unaware of those wise words.
During his eight years in the White House Mr Obama played a total of 306 rounds of golf, a commitment to the game his opponents called excessive and frequently used to attack his work ethic.
Mr Obama's passion for golf contrasted with that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who played just 24 times in office.
Mr Bush gave up entirely in 2003 because he felt images of him playingseemed insensitive while US soldiers were fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Other golfing presidents of the modern era, including John F.
Kennedy and Bill Clinton, kept their habit away from the public eye as much as possible.Mr Obama tried to do the same but, in an era when a president's movementsare constantly documented, pictures proliferated of him pacing manicured greens studying a putt at inopportunemoments of national crisis.
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Barack Obama, 'golfer-in-chief', played 306 rounds in office
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