Obama unable to secure Labor Day tee time
Sep 10, 2014 09:55 AM
By ESPN.com
Looking to get a tee time at Winged Foot? How about Trump National? Apparently even the president of the United States sometimes gets the brush-off, according to a broadcast report.
President Barack Obama was in the New York City area for Labor Day, and his Secret Service advance team inquired about possible tee times at those two elite clubs and some others, according to NBC 4 New York.
The president was in town, the report said, for a fundraiser and a wedding. According to the report, this isn't the first time a sitting president was rebuffed by elite clubs, especially considering that the Labor Day holiday is considered by many to be one of the last big weekends for golf in the Northeast.
Obama had been criticized recently for hitting the links while major crises flared up in the Middle East and the Ukraine.
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