Even war couldn't keep Woodrow Wilson off the golf course.
President Woodrow Wilson plays golf, circa 1916. Wilson played the most golf of any U.S. president, at over 1,200 rounds. By Ronald G. Shafer April 6 at 11:11 AM As world events swirl around him, the president finds time to golf. Not even foreign threats of war can keep him from hitting the links.
Wilson saw golf as a diversion from the long, high-pressure days of his job. “Each stroke requires your whole attention and seems the most important thing in life,” he said. “We met face to face,” she later recalled. “The two gentleman, I am sorry to say,” weren’t “well-attired. Their golf suits, as I found out later, were made by a cheap tailor the President had used for years.” Despite Wilson’s outfit, Galt and the president had an immediate attraction. Wilson’s wife had died a year before. That December the 59-year-old president married 43-year-old Galt. Wilson began golfing with his new wife, who reportedly was the better player.
Hardly anything could keep Wilson away from the golf course. On April 2, 1917, he prepared an evening speech to a joint session of Congress seeking to declare war on Germany in World War I. But first he golfed with Mrs. Wilson that morning. At the Paris Peace Conference in early 1919, Wilson found time to sneak off to the links at Versailles.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower starts a round of golf in Thomasville, Ga., on Feb. 22, 1956. [A gunman took hostages at Augusta National. Ronald Reagan tried to calm him down.]
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