President Obama - Golf vacation with the boys!

 

 

 

What does  the President of the United States of America do for Presidents Day Weekend? He organises a golf vacation with friends!
Not to of the Washington area military bases where he is a regular but he headed south to enjoy some great Floridian sunshine and golf at the Floridian, an exclusive and secluded yacht and golf club on the state's Treasure Coast.
He arrived Friday night after a speech in Chicago and wasn't expected to be seen again in public until he returns to Washington on Monday.
"At this time, there are no public events scheduled or plans for the president to leave the grounds of the golf club," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Saturday.
Call it a weekend with the boys, presidential style while the First Lady Michelle is enjoying an annual ski trip with daughters Malia and Sasha out west.
As it turns out, it isn't at all uncommon for the president to take a vacation alone
During the weekend, the president, a sports enthusiast and avid golfer, planned to practice his putting technique on the club's private, 18-hole course, which opened in 1996 and is owned by Jim Crane, a Houston businessman who also owns Major League Baseball's Astros.
Obama's long-time friend from Chicago, Eric Whitaker, joined him on the flight from Chicago to Florida. The two have played golf together in the past. Another regular member of Obama's golf foursomes is White House trip director Marvin Nicholson, who also travelled with the president on Friday.
The White House said it would release the names of those who played golf with the president on Saturday later in the day.
At least one instructor to some of golf's top professionals put out the word that he'd be out on the green with Obama in the afternoon.
"I will be with POTUS this afternoon, playing 9 holes and some practice time," Butch Harmon, Tiger Woods' former swing coach, said in a text to The Associated Press. Harmon's son, PGA instructor Claude Harmon III, also is expected to be on hand.
POTUS is the acronym for president of the United States.