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President Obama’s “POTUS 44” golf ball found… in the woods
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama reportedly sniped his opening tee shot into the woods during a round at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. Apparently the guys from PTI either let the President take a “breakfast ball,” or his caddy/Secret Service didn’t do a good job finding the shot that went astray.
A golfer, known by his Instagram alias “Larrydoh,” went into the woods the next day and recovered the head honcho’s customized Titleist Pro V1 golf ball. Certainly the reports bear some truth, since President Obama is the 44th and current POTUS (President of the United States).
President Obama has reportedly played 81 rounds of golf in his second-term. With all that practice you think he’d have the shanks under control. A video that surfaced in 2009 from a range session in his home state of Hawaii shows he had a lot of work to do.
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As the POTUS, you’d think he’d have better access to the world’s best instructors, no? I guess even the guy with control over the free world can’t control an unruly golf ball.
Fore left Barry, fore left.
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SuperStroke acquires Lamkin Grips
SuperStroke announced today its purchase of 100-year-old grip maker Lamkin Grips, citing the company’s “heritage of innovation and quality.”
“It is with pride and great gratitude that we announce Lamkin, a golf club grip brand with a 100-year history of breakthrough design and trusted products, is now a part of the SuperStroke brand,” says SuperStroke CEO Dean Dingman. “We have always had the utmost respect for how the Lamkin family has put the needs and benefits of the golfer first in their grip designs. If there is a grip company that is most aligned with SuperStroke’s commitment to uncompromised research, design, and development to put the most useful performance tools in the hands of golfers, Lamkin has been that brand. It is an honor to bring Lamkin’s wealth of product innovation into the SuperStroke family.”
Elver B. Lamkin founded the company in 1925 and produced golf’s first leather grips. The company had been family-owned and operated since that point, producing a wide array of styles, such as the iconic Crossline.
According to a press release, “The acquisition of Lamkin grows and diversifies SuperStroke’s proven and popular array of grip offerings with technology grounded in providing golfers optimal feel and performance through cutting-edge design and use of materials, surface texture and shape.”
CEO Bob Lamkin will stay on as a board member and will continue to be involved with the company.
“SuperStroke has become one of the most proven, well-operated, and pioneering brands in golf grips and we could not be more confident that the Lamkin legacy, brand, and technology is in the best of hands to continue to innovate and lead under the guidance of Dean Dingman and his remarkably capable team,” Lamkin said.
Related: Check out our 2014 conversation with Bob Lamkin, here: Bob Lamkin on the wrap grip reborn, 90 years of history
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Tour Rundown: Pendrith, Otaegui, Longbella, and Dunlap soar
Take it from a fellow who coaches high school golf in metro Toronto: there’s plenty of great golf played in the land of the maple leaf. All the greats have designed courses over the USA border: Colt, Whitman, Ross, Coore, Mackenzie, Doak, as well as the greatest of the land, Stanley Thompson. I’m partial to him, because he wore my middle name with grandeur. Enough about the architecture, because this week’s Tour Rundown begins with a newly-minted, Canadian champion on the PGA Tour. Something else that the great white north is known for, is weather. It impacted play on three of the world’s tours, forcing final-round cancellations on two of them.
It was an odd week in the golf world. The LPGA and the Korn Ferry were on a break, and only 13/15 of the rounds slated, were played. In the end, we have four champions to recognize, so let’s not delay any longer with minutiae about the game that we love. Let’s run it all down with this week’s Tour Rundown.
PGA Tour: TP takes TS at Byron’s place
The 1980s was a decade when a Canadian emergence was anticipated on the PGA Tour. It failed to materialize, but a path was carved for the next generation. Mike Weir captured the Masters in 2003, but no other countrymen joined him in his quest for PGA Tour conquest. 2024 may herald the long-awaited arrival of a Canadian squad of tour winners. Over the past few years, we’ve seen Nick Taylor break the fifty-plus year dearth of homebred champions at the Canadian Open, and players like Adam Hadwin, Corey Conners, Adam Svennson, and Mackenzie Hughes have etched their names into the PGA Tour’s annals of winners.
This week, Taylor Pendrith joined his mates with a one-shot win at TPC Craig Ranch, the home of the Byron Nelson Classic. Pendrith took a lead into the final round and, while the USA’s Jake Knapp faltered, held on for the slimmest of victories. Sweden’s Alex Noren posted six-under 65 on Sunday to move into third position, at 21-under par. Ben Kohles, a Texan, looked to break through for his first win in his home state. He took the lead from Pendrith at the 71st hole, on the strength of a second-consecutive birdie.
With victory in site, Kohles found a way to make bogey at the last, without submerging in the fronting water. His second shot was greenside, but he could not move his third to the putting surface. His fourth was five feet from par and a playoff, but his fifth failed to drop. Meanwhile, Pendrith was on the froghair in two, and calmly took two putts from 40 feet, for birdie. When Kohles missed for par, Pendrith had, at last, a PGA Tour title.
360° and in!
A nervy par save by @TaylorPendrith to remain one back as he seeks his first PGA TOUR victory @CJByronNelson. pic.twitter.com/LVFXUSidSg
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 5, 2024
DP World Tour: China Open in Otaegui’s hands after canceled day four
It wasn’t the fourth round that was canceled in Shenzhen, but the third. Rains came on Saturday to Hidden Grace Golf Club, ensuring that momentum would cease. Sunday would instead be akin to a motorsports restart, with no sense of who might claim victory. Sebastian Soderberg, the hottest golfer on the Asian Swing, held the lead, but he would slip to a 72 on Sunday, and tie for third with Paul Waring and Joel Girrbach. Italy’s Guido Migliozzi completed play in 67 strokes on day three, moving one shot past the triumvirate, to 17-under par.
It was Spain’s Adrian Otaegui who persevered the best and played the purest. Otaegui was clean on the day, with seven birdies for 65. Even when Migliozzi ceased the lead at the 10th, Otaegui remained calm. With everything on the line, Migliozzi made bogey at the par-five 17th, as his principal competitor finished in birdie. To the Italian’s credit, he bounced back with birdie at the last, to claim solo second. The victory was Otaegui’s fifth on the DP World Tour, and first since October of 2022.
.@adrianotaegui birdies the 16th to tie the lead at -17 ?#VolvoChinaOpen pic.twitter.com/p4tfE5DRJa
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) May 5, 2024
PGA Tour Americas: Quito’s rains gift title to Longbella
Across the world, superintendents and their staffs will do anything to prepare a course for play. Even after fierce, nightime rains, the Quito TG Club greeted the first four groups on Sunday. The rains worsened after 7 am, however, and the tour was forced to abort the final round of play. With scores reverting to Saturday’s numbers, Thomas Longbella’s one-shot advantage over Gunn Yang turned into a Tour Americas victory.
64 held the opening-day lead, and Longbella was not far off, with 66. Yang jumped to the top on day two, following a67 with 66. He posted 68 on day three, and anticipated a fierce, final-round duel for the title. As for Longbella, he fought off a ninth-hole bogey on Saturday with six birdies and a 17th-hole eagle. That rare bird proved to be the winning stroke, allowing Longbella to edge past Yang, and secure ultimate victory.
.@TBalla21 eagles 17, shoots 65 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the KIA Open. pic.twitter.com/TTOL2LxSdh
— PGA TOUR Americas (@PGATOURAmericas) May 4, 2024
PGA Tour Champions: Dunlap survives Saturday stumble for win
Scott Dunlap did not finish Saturday as well as he might have liked. After beginning play near Houston with 65, Dunlap made two bogeys in his final found holes on day two, to finish at nine-under par. Hot on his heels was Joe Durant, owner of a March 2024 win on PGA Tour Champions. Just behind Durant was Stuart Appleby, perhaps vibing from his Sunday 59 at Greenbrier on this day in 2010. Neither would have a chance to track Dunlap down.
The rains that have forced emergency responders into action, to save hundreds of lives in the metro Houston area, ended hopes for a third day of play at The Woodlands. Dunlap had won once previously on Tour Champions, in 2014 in Washington state. Ten years later, Dunlap was the fortunate recipient of a canceled final round, and his two days of play were enough to earn him TC victory number two.
Off the green? No worries for @ScottDu12500063
8-under solo leader @InsperityInvtnl pic.twitter.com/hoj5OujL5C
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) May 4, 2024
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Joe American
Jul 31, 2014 at 7:29 pm
Obama has decided to “darken” the nation (it’s too white), illegally I might add, by rolling out the red carpet for illegals to cross the border. He really did have a plan to “transform America”. Right out of the Saul Alinsky’s and Cloward/Piven playbook. Thank you white progressives….hope you will be happy when we end up like Europe, whose leaders did the same thing, in order to keep power permanently.
John
Aug 1, 2014 at 3:21 am
Is some marshal going to get this idiot’s post off of here anytime soon. I read this site for golf not racist tripe like this.
Sean
Aug 1, 2014 at 10:38 pm
+1 John
James
Aug 4, 2014 at 4:59 pm
What Joe said is true…to stay on topic….how many golf courses has this President’s policies put out of business or put on the threshold of going under? The golf business needs a vibrant economy to thrive, and this President has given us anything but that…and please do not quote me the manipulated stock market…I am talking about disposable income…that is what the golf market needs to flourish. Rising healthcare…3-4 dollar gas…limited hours if you are lucky enough to have a job…etc…
Sarah P.
Aug 1, 2014 at 10:03 pm
I agree with Joe’s educated and rational post.
SBoss
Aug 3, 2014 at 10:00 am
If I found his ball, I’d throw it in the lake…it’d be like finding a ball with a cut in it. Sorry, nothing special about this guy. What he’s brought into the White House has permanently ruined the office and reduced it to nothing special…both here and abroad.
At least his voters got their stuff.
Sarah P.
Jul 31, 2014 at 12:55 pm
Ok, you betcha that we found his golf ball in the woods, but we still haven’t found any answers on Benghazi!
Where are the answers?!
Great post, Andrew. Nice use of Barry in the last line. Glad you’re taking sides, Real American!
Tommy
Jul 31, 2014 at 11:15 am
Looks like he’s as incompetent as a golfer as he is as a president. And of course he changes the rules as he sees fit. Disappointed golfwrx gives him or any other politician/entertainer mentions. What about a story on why international competitors are starting to dominate golf when the 2 governing bodies are in the USA and UK.
BW
Jul 30, 2014 at 5:45 pm
politics aside… if he’s playing that much when is he going to learn how to dress?
Mexico joe
Jul 30, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Yeah, who wears a white shirt and khaki shorts?
Jim
Jul 31, 2014 at 4:34 pm
He makes the white shirt and khaki short combo look the worst I’ve seen and he’s the president!
Jeremy
Jul 30, 2014 at 5:16 pm
I hope some day I’m important enough that strangers go looking for my “breakfast balls” in the woods the next day.
BTW, Andrew, this is the sort of post in which a lot of blogs will tend to encourage their readers not to get too political. Judging from comments like “Joe’s” this could get real ugly real quickly.
HD
Jul 30, 2014 at 5:16 pm
Clearly an “amateur”
Joe American
Jul 30, 2014 at 4:59 pm
Is it any surprise that Barry the “Community Organizer” cant play? At least when he is attempting to play golf, he has taken a break from destroying the country. God knows he has just about finished off the USA. Another 10 trillion should just about do it. He and Eric Holder are busy saving the county from white males. Was Bill Ayers in his foursome, along with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Forget impeachment, this Muslim plant and front man for George Soros open borders society should be arrested immediately for crimes against America.
Jeremy
Jul 30, 2014 at 5:14 pm
Well that’s just about every single lunatic fringe talking point all rolled up into one tidy little paragraph. Well done Joseph.
JR
Jul 30, 2014 at 5:57 pm
you sir are NOT an american
Jedidiah
Jul 30, 2014 at 10:04 pm
Shut up JR and come have a tickle fight