President Barack Obama plays a round of golf at the Old Course on May 26, 2017, in St Andrews, Scotland. (Photo by Robert Perry/Getty Images)
President from 2009-2017
Barack Obama was the eighth lefthander to serve as United States president and he played golf as a lefty, too.
Obama has been criticized for playing too much golf; it was once calculated he teed it up every 9.5 days. But a lot of the criticism came from the current commander in chief, who plays golf reportedly every 6.3 days.
Obama would play as president with custom Titleist golf balls, personalized with “POTUS” on one side and the number “44” on the other. According to a report, Obama personally paid for the balls.
He’s not the first, and likely not the last, president to have customized golf balls. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush all had balls featuring their signatures, according to the book “First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers and Cheaters from Taft to Bush” by ESPN’s Don Van Natta, Jr.
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