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...noticed the French door near Clinton's desk was ajar. Picking up the trail, he went outside. There on the South Lawn, about 30 yds. from the Oval Office, the President of the United States was standing in shirt-sleeves and tie, his hands gripping the shaft of a putter, his eyes fixed on a small white ball at his feet...
...renovation of Dwight Eisenhower's old putting green on the South Lawn was completed, could he slip outside and practice his game without leaving the White House. The restored green, designed by renowned course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr., is 1,500 sq. ft. of Southshore Creeping Bentgrass, a putter's paradise. The addition has brightened Clinton's disposition and broken up his cluttered workday. In the months before he left for a golf-saturated vacation last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the President could be found outside almost daily, often for just a few minutes, lining up breaking putts...
...aides, including two senior advisers from the National Security Council, to the South Lawn. As they stood by in suits, Clinton, in color-coordinated golf togs, proceeded to "blow off steam on Bosnia," according to one participant, while he moved around the green with a bag of balls, a putter and a pair of wedges. "It's hard to justify our diplomacy when our diplomacy isn't showing much," he complained loudly. Within days, the White House announced his decision to press for a stiffer NATO response to Serb aggression. Clinton is skilled with a driver and loves nothing more...
President Clinton lost his favorite putter. George Bush clipped two spectators, and Jerry Ford, true to form, knocked his first ball straight at the crowd. "The three hackers," as Ford called the presidential trio, convened in Palm Springs, Calif., today for the Bob Hope Classic, with the venerable comedian as a fourth. Before finishing off his round, Bush had to say he was sorry to one victim, slightly bleeding, 71-year-old Norma Early of Vista, Calif., who told Bush, "I'm sorry I got in the way of your shot...
When John F. Kennedy '40 set off for the White House in 1961, there were those who remembered that his grandfather, the legendary Mayor "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, wouldn't have deigned to move to Washington--not wanting to putter around the South when there was work to be done back in the Hub of the Universe...