(Scott Adams/Flickr)OF THE 44 AMERICAN PRESIDENTS (I�m counting President-elect Barack Obama), 15, or about one in three, are/were golfers. In the January issue of Golf Digest, the magazine ranks the 15:
1. John F. Kennedy
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower
3. Gerald R. Ford
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. George H. W. Bush
6. George W. Bush
7. Bill Clinton
8. Barack Obama
9. Ronald Reagan
10. Warren G. Harding
11. William Howard Taft
12. Woodrow Wilson
13. Richard M. Nixon
14. Lyndon B. Johnson
15. Calvin Coolidge
Barack Obama is No. 8, but look at the top of the list. From everything I�ve read, John Kennedy is clearly No. 1. And then �Ike� and Gerald Ford are two and three. TWO AND THREE! Wow. Is it just me, or are Ike and Ford a scary golf thought? (No disrespect intended.)
Golf Digest said they based the rankings on their research and available public information. I�ve come up with another way to settle this. I invite you to join me for the first annual Presidents Golf Championship at the ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG.
We�ll put the 15 (and another one, to be named) in brackets for a match-play tournament. All matches will be played at Augusta National under tight security. We�ll find out how the presidents deal with real pressure. And in a few weeks we�ll crown a champion.
Next time I�ll profile the golfing presidents, and then the tournament will get underway.
Please submit any suggestions on whom you would like added to the field. He�ll be the 16th seed and have to go up against JFK in the opening match. That one is already looking like a rout.
-The Armchair Golfer
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[Source: ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG]
