President Obama Getting Golf Lessons From Butch Harmon.

US President Obama will set to receive golf lessons from Tiger Woods’ former long-time coach Butch Harmon this weekend during a break in Florida.
 

Harmon and his son Claude III will be flying in to work with the left-handed President.

Harmon coached Woods from 1993 to 2004 and in a period when Woods captured eight of now 14 Major Championships.  In April 2007, Harmon began working with Phil Mickelson while he’s also worked with other Major winners including Ernie Els, Stewart Cink, Greg Norman, Davis Love 111, Fred Couples and Justin Leonard.  

As well, Harmon has coached Nick Watney, Adam Scott, Dustin Johnson, Gary Woodland and LPGA star Natalie Gulbis.

Golf nut President Obama putting at the back of the White House.

And Harmon is no stranger working with world’s most powerful men.

“I’ve played golf with Ike, Nixon, Ford and President Bush,” said  Harmon.

“But I never played with President Clinton. I met him in the Oval Office. It’ll be interesting working with President Obama. I know the President is a real keen golfer. I’m looking forward to it. It should be fun.”

Obama will be sharpening his golf game while his the first lady and his daughters ski in Colorado.

“He’s a left-handed player, I’ve seen film of his swing before,” said Harmon. “It’ll be fun to get him down in the learning center, show him stuff in his golf game and see how he takes it to the course.”

“He’s just like all of us that play golf,” he added. “He wants to get better.”

Obama is spending the weekend at a golf and yacht club known as “the Floridian,” which sports a recently-built training facility partially designed by Harmon.

The White House has banned the media, but  did state Obama’s playing partners would include personal friend Dr. Eric Whitaker and U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk along with Harvard classmate and fundraiser Tony Chase was there as well as Milton Carroll, a Texas energy businessman who donated to the Obama campaign

The property’s owner, Jim Crane, was also on the course. Crane, who also owns the Houston Astros baseball team, was an Obama re-election campaign donor who put together a fundraising event at the team’s stadium last March. The appearance was one of two that evening that brought in a estimated $2.8 million combined, the campaign said at the time.

Local media TCPalm.com reported the President is expected to migrate to another 18 holes Sunday at the  Medalist Club, where Tiger Woods and Greg Norman are also members.

 



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