President Obama on a Boys Golf Weekend in Florida. Any sightings?

[V. Kmetz]

Rich G.

On balance, I've got to admit you're right to reign in my scope of analysis re: the specifics of the NYM.

I don't really care about the Mets, my targetting was more of general ennui with the rapacious commercial pace of all NY area sports...the new Yankee stadium, the new Met Life stadium, they should wear a mask and hold a gun when they scan your stub... The experience of attending and experiencing an exhibition of sport is just so costly, so intrusive and so disposable that it absolutely has turned me off of anything except the televised events.  the New Yankee stadium is a mall's Food Court with a baseball field to its north wall.

That's of course more than JUST what the teams are doing (the drunken, obnoxious tenor of fans in giants Stadium was so bad that from 06-08, I went to the tailgates and did not attend the games...I scalped my tickets at 8am or on Ebay before, ate and drank until Noon when my compadres started to pack up and enter the stadium, chilled out with coffee until kickoff and then starting driving 1.5 hours home, caught the 2nd half on TV.)

cheers

vk

[Scott Warren]

Corey Miller,

How do we know how much Obama plays?

The media and GOP keep a tally of how much golf Obama plays and mention it periodically.

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=politics&catid=57454890&feed_id=3&videofeed=39

http://obamagolfcounter.com/

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/104-a-large-number-for-some-things-but-for-golf-rounds-over-four-years-not-so-much/

[David Harshbarger]

Corey Miller,

How do we know how much Obama plays?

The media and GOP keep a tally of how much golf Obama plays and mention it periodically.

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=politics&catid=57454890&feed_id=3&videofeed=39

http://obamagolfcounter.com/

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/104-a-large-number-for-some-things-but-for-golf-rounds-over-four-years-not-so-much/

I guess when your side loses and the bitter pill burns hot inside you, keeping track of how much the Prez recreates can seem important and relevant.  100 odd rounds over 4 years doesn't seem outrageous, though.

Since the Dems did the same inane thing when Bush was in office, it probably says more about the stereotype of "spending time golfing as playing hooky from responsibility" than it does about anything important.

As golf lovers, it's a good thing that people as diverse as Boehner and Obama share our love of the game, and hopefully, help their partisan supporters  see the game in a positive light.

[Bill_McBride]

I am old enough to remember that NOBODY vilified Ike for playing a lot of golf at Augusta National over the eight years he was in office. 

Politics today is enough to make a polecat retch. 

[corey miller]

Scott Warren

It would be nice if you would fairly represent what I wrote in my post which was a response to the comments made by Butch Harmon.  Hint...my comments are in green.

Why would I seek to deny the most Athletic President in our nations history the opportunity for exercise?

[Sam Morrow]

Scott Warren

It would be nice if you would fairly represent what I wrote in my post which was a response to the comments made by Butch Harmon.  Hint...my comments are in green.

Why would I seek to deny the most Athletic President in our nations history the opportunity for exercise?

The most athletic president? That sounds racist. Gerald Ford laughs at you.

[Garland Bayley]

Scott Warren

It would be nice if you would fairly represent what I wrote in my post which was a response to the comments made by Butch Harmon.  Hint...my comments are in green.

Why would I seek to deny the most Athletic President in our nations history the opportunity for exercise?

The most athletic president? That sounds racist. Gerald Ford laughs at you.

Jack could whip them both with one hand tied behind his back!

[Rich Goodale]

Rich G.

On balance, I've got to admit you're right to reign in my scope of analysis re: the specifics of the NYM.

I don't really care about the Mets, my targetting was more of general ennui with the rapacious commercial pace of all NY area sports...the new Yankee stadium, the new Met Life stadium, they should wear a mask and hold a gun when they scan your stub... The experience of attending and experiencing an exhibition of sport is just so costly, so intrusive and so disposable that it absolutely has turned me off of anything except the televised events.  the New Yankee stadium is a mall's Food Court with a baseball field to its north wall.

That's of course more than JUST what the teams are doing (the drunken, obnoxious tenor of fans in giants Stadium was so bad that from 06-08, I went to the tailgates and did not attend the games...I scalped my tickets at 8am or on Ebay before, ate and drank until Noon when my compadres started to pack up and enter the stadium, chilled out with coffee until kickoff and then starting driving 1.5 hours home, caught the 2nd half on TV.)

cheers

vk

Now that was a great rant!

The last time I watched professional sports in NYC was in the 1960's and it was a much kinder and gentler experience than what sports is today.  Vis a vis GCA, however, I remember one game at Yankee Stadium in the 50's when our seats were smack behind a steel pillar and we had to crane our necks from right to left and left to right if we wanted to follow the ball.  Just like some ODG GCA renovation, I suspect that the removal of the pillars has improved the experience of watching the Bombers play, but then again if the trade-off includes $10 hotdogs made partially of horsemeat on a 3-day old bun, and JakaB-ish wannabees speading their 40+ year old fat bums over their seats into my space, count me out.

rfg

[David_Elvins]

As golf lovers, it's a good thing that people as diverse as Boehner and Obama share our love of the game,

It's a sad indictment on the game of golf when the president and the 2nd in line to be president are coupled together as an example of diversity within the game's ranks.

[Bruce Katona]

If I were Tiger and a +6/8 and The POTUS is an 18 I'd offer The POTUS the following match:

POTUS: $5/hole skins, automatic press with 2 down & 3 years of lessons with Tiger while still in the White House if I win the match.

Tiger: If I win MR POTUS, you help and clean up my messes I've caused the past few years...photo ops with you, good press events at the White House, perhaps a call or two to the IRS agent who will audit my ex-wife lawyers tax return.....

Sounds like a great bet for whoever wins.

[J Cabarcos]

What was not revealed about the POTUS weekend outing is that he continues to wear CARGO shorts to the course, sigh, uggh.  I guess when you tee it up with the owner of a ritzy golf club such as the Floridian, the staff at the pro shop overlook these wardrobe faux pas.

Last month Michael Jordan could not get away with it at Miami Beach's tony LaGorce GC, but being the President of the Free World has its perks. 

I find it difficult to believe the President would not know better.  Does he think he is an agent of change towards making golf attire more casual, perhaps more proletariat?

[Rick Shefchik]

What was not revealed about the POTUS weekend outing is that he continues to wear CARGO shorts to the course, sigh, uggh.  I guess when you tee it up with the owner of a ritzy golf club such as the Floridian, the staff at the pro shop overlook these wardrobe faux pas.

Last month Michael Jordan could not get away with it at Miami Beach's tony LaGorce GC, but being the President of the Free World has its perks. 

I find it difficult to believe the President would not know better.  Does he think he is an agent of change towards making golf attire more casual, perhaps more proletariat?

If this is true, I weep for our nation. I am a shorts snob; the President of the United States simply should never, ever, ever be seen in cargo shorts.

[Jim_Kennedy]

What was not revealed about the POTUS weekend outing is that he continues to wear CARGO shorts to the course

If this is true, I weep for our nation. I am a shorts snob; the President of the United States simply should never, ever, ever be seen in cargo shorts.

It's not true. There are only a couple of photos and a bit of film. In the photos his shorts are standard Bermudas, not cargos, and it must have been cool in the tape as he's wearing long pants and a windshirt/jacket.

Sheesh.

[Rick Shefchik]

What was not revealed about the POTUS weekend outing is that he continues to wear CARGO shorts to the course

If this is true, I weep for our nation. I am a shorts snob; the President of the United States simply should never, ever, ever be seen in cargo shorts.

It's not true. There are only a couple of photos and a bit of film. In the photos his shorts are standard Bermudas, not cargos, and it must have been cool in the tape as he's wearing long pants and a windshirt/jacket.

Sheesh.

I should have known it was a hoax. The state of the union remains sound.

[Scott Warren]

What I do find interesting is that POTUS spends more time shooting hoops than playing golf, yet it's the golf that rankles some people.

That being so, it seems not to be that "he should be hard at work", but the act of playing golf itself that annoys people.

[Pete_Pittock]

Scott Warren

It would be nice if you would fairly represent what I wrote in my post which was a response to the comments made by Butch Harmon.  Hint...my comments are in green.

Why would I seek to deny the most Athletic President in our nations history the opportunity for exercise?

I guess athletes can't bowl

[corey miller]

Quote from: corey miller on February 20, 2013, 02:31:19 PM

Scott Warren

It would be nice if you would fairly represent what I wrote in my post which was a response to the comments made by Butch Harmon.  Hint...my comments are in green.

Why would I seek to deny the most Athletic President in our nations history the opportunity for exercise?

I guess athletes can't bowl Wink



In keeping with the anti-snob theme of one of the threads I am sure President Obama does not care about his bowling score and suspect he was rarely exposed to the sport.  Take a sport like basketball, something he likes, I am told he was a high division one prospect coming out of high school but preferred occidental for the studies.

[Garland Bayley]

Quote from: corey miller on February 20, 2013, 02:31:19 PM

Scott Warren

It would be nice if you would fairly represent what I wrote in my post which was a response to the comments made by Butch Harmon.  Hint...my comments are in green.

Why would I seek to deny the most Athletic President in our nations history the opportunity for exercise?

I guess athletes can't bowl Wink



In keeping with the anti-snob theme of one of the threads I am sure President Obama does not care about his bowling score and suspect he was rarely exposed to the sport.  Take a sport like basketball, something he likes, I am told he was a high division one prospect coming out of high school but preferred occidental for the studies.

I don't care what high school you go to, you are not a "high division one prospect coming out of high school" if you spend your time deep on the bench.

[Jud_T]

Apparently Tiger should spend less time hobnobbing and more time on hitting a controlled fade...

[Mike_Young]

In keeping with the anti-snob theme of one of the threads I am sure President Obama does not care about his bowling score and suspect he was rarely exposed to the sport.  Take a sport like basketball, something he likes, I am told he was a high division one prospect coming out of high school but preferred occidental for the studies.
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This ranks right up there with the birth certificate stuff.  I would wager any amount you can't produce one bit of evidence that he was a high D1 prospect or any kind of athletic prospect.  Just because one is active in a sport does not an athlete make  anybody can look at that clown and see never was and never will be....

[Jud_T]

In keeping with the anti-snob theme of one of the threads I am sure President Obama does not care about his bowling score and suspect he was rarely exposed to the sport.  Take a sport like basketball, something he likes, I am told he was a high division one prospect coming out of high school but preferred occidental for the studies.
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This ranks right up there with the birth certificate stuff.  I would wager any amount you can't produce one bit of evidence that he was a high D1 prospect or any kind of athletic prospect.  Just because one is active in a sport does not an athlete make  anybody can look at that clown and see never was and never will be....

    Mike,  Strong resemblance to Derrick Rose, Chicago connection, I don't know!