The nation’s chief executive is enjoying a sunny Sunday afternoon in Prince George’s County, Md., for an afternoon of sports — but no, he’s not taking in the Redskins’ home opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
President Obama is hitting the links at Joint Base Andrews Sunday. He arrived there with the presidential motorcade around noon, according to a White House press pool report.
The president has played golf at Andrews, formerly known as Andrews Air Force Base, more than anywhere else, according to a tally kept by CBS newsman Mark Knoller, the White House press corps’ unofficial keeper of the tally of presidential golf. “Of 196 rounds,” Knoller tweeted Sunday, “he has played 72 at Andrews.”
Obama plans to travel to Atlanta on Tuesday to visit staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a briefing on the African Ebola outbreak and to thank the workers combatting the disease.
In the president’s foursome Sunday are White House Travel Director and frequent POTUS golf partner Marvin Nicholson and aides Mike Brush and Joe Paulsen.
