Donald Trump paid a Feb. 2 visit to Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla., representing the 167th time the 45th President has visited one of his 17 golf clubs (and, for most of them, presumably played some golf) since becoming President on Jan. 20, 2017. He has now paid 168 visits to any golf course as President.
Trump is spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago private club and resort in Palm Beach, Fla., and trips to what he deems the Southern White House or Winter White House almost always include trips to his golf clubs. Trump International Golf Club is a 15-minute drive from Mar-a-Lago. However, on this day, he played at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter. He arrived shortly after 9 a.m. on Saturday to play golf.
Trump is playing golf today with Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus. This marks the second known time Trump has played golf with Woods since winning the 2016 Presidential election. Jack Nicklaus, who is a politically active Republican particularly in Florida, has played golf with Trump on a variety of occasions since Trump won election.
🚨I’m not sure if this has been reported by anyone yet or not. I just received these pics. Tiger is at Trump Jupiter today on the course with Jack Nicklaus and Donald Trump. This is a non political tweet, of course — but I’m reporting the info. pic.twitter.com/Jjpe9e60TW
— Tiger Woods Legion (@TWlegion) February 2, 2019
This round marks the first time Trump has played golf since Nov. 25, 2018. That stretch of more than two months included skipping his normal Christmas holiday trip to Florida, where he would typically play golf, because of the optics of playing golf during the 35-day partial government shutdown.
Trump is golfing with Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus today.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 2, 2019
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The White House doesn't typically acknowledge Trump was even playing golf. That is commonplace policy, particularly when Trump isn't playing with celebrities or pro golfers or doesn't have something to flaunt. Typically, the White House press pool indicates when Trump arrives at his golf clubs, then they are held in a holding location until Trump is done and moves to his next location.
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All but one round of golf has been at his clubs, playing once in Japan in Nov. 2017 with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and Japanese star pro Hideki Matsuyama.
Trump ended 2017 with 91 golf course visits and was just shy of 100 visits in Year 1 as President.
The Trump Administration, per typical policy, does not acknowledge that Trump is playing even a hole of golf, much less an 18-hole round. However, if he's going to the golf club for about 4-5 hours, you can be pretty sure he's playing golf. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has asked the White House to provide the names of Trump's golf partners, as well for his clubs to provide visitor logs to get a sense of when Trump has played golf and with whom.
The President is certainly entitled to some leisure time, and golf has been an outlet for most Commanders-in-Chief dating back to the early 20th century. However, the reluctance to even acknowledge that this President plays golf conflicts with his almost relentless criticism of his predecessor, Barack Obama, who played an estimated 333 rounds of golf as President.