One of the last rounds on our trip to Maine was at Cape Arundel. We had the first tee time of the day on a beautiful Saturday morning. When we arrived at 6:25, the guy in the golf shop told us that President George W. Bush would be playing in front of us. The guy in the shop assured us that he wouldn't hold us up, naturally I thought, "Yeah, right" as I am one of the fastest players on planet earth and my wife isn't exactly slow either.
We were sitting in our cart when the two big SUV's pulled up. As they pulled up my wife leaned over to me and said "Should we be standing at attention or something?" To which I replied, "No idea." He got out of the car and immediately came over to say hi to us. He chatted with us for a couple minutes and was very nice. He also assured us that he wouldn't hold us up. One other guy was playing with him and they headed to the first tee at 6:55 along with three carts of Secret Service.
To my shock, President Bush was 100% correct, we never caught them. After four holes, they were two holes ahead of us. We only really interacted with them on the course once, when they were looking for a ball in an adjoining fairway. It was pretty funny to see two golfers and six Secret Service Agents looking for a golf ball in the trees!
The entrance drive to Cape Arundel cuts right through the 18th fairway. As we were driving up 18 we saw the SUV's getting ready to leave so we parked and watched them leave. We waved to the president as he drove by. He blew my wife a kiss and she "caught it" That made him smile. Meeting a president was never really a goal of mine but it was still a very cool experience.