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Joe Biden, in the lineage of these golfing presidents

2021-01-28T15:26:06.749Z


Like most of his predecessors, the new tenant of the White House is a distinguished player. In a nation of nearly 25 million practitioners, this specificity is almost the norm.


Bush father and son, Clinton, Obama, Trump and now Biden.

The last six Presidents of the United States were all avid golfers.

Since William H. Taft in 1909, only three of them were not followers of the little white ball: Hoover, Truman and Carter.

Joe Biden therefore does not fail in tradition.

However, little is known about his swing.

In Delaware, this good player - who, according to the American magazine Golf Digest, has long displayed a single-digit index - is a member of two golf courses, the Fieldstone Golf Club and the Wilmington Country Club, which he joined in 2014. It is there that he would have hit the ball a few days before the elections, to clear his mind, to relieve his stress.

We also know that, when he was Barack Obama's vice-president, the two men regularly played together to discuss current affairs.

President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden, on the White House putting green, in Washington, April 24, 2009. Rue des Archives

However, it's a safe bet that Joe Biden does not expose himself as much club in hand as his predecessors.

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Source: lefigaro

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