Cheers to the new Duffer in chief!
President Biden hit the links for the first golf game of his presidency on Saturday on an unexpected visit that seemed to surprise local pirates.
Outstanding members of the Wilmington Country Club, 10 minutes from Biden’s Delaware home, were seen whipping their cell phones to record the president’s arrival at the 36-hole facility.
It started with adviser Steve Ricchetti and Ron Olivere, the White House said. Olivere is the father of Hallie Biden, the widow of Biden’s late son, Beau, and ex-lover of Hunter Biden, her scandalous young son.
Biden has had the game in his head in recent days: the trip came a day after his deserving reference to Masters golf champion Hideki Matsuyama as a “Japanese boy” at a Rose Garden press conference with the Prime Minister Japanese Yoshihide Suga.
Once ranked as one of Washington’s best political players with a crazy golf by Golf Digest, Biden took a break from the links during last year’s presidential campaign. His first public adventure on the course comes 87 days after he took the oath of office.
It will take many more outings to catch up with the prodigious desire of their predecessors for the game. President Trump played at least 150 rounds during his presidency at the golf courses he owns in Virginia, Florida and New Jersey. President Obama left more than 300 times during his two terms.