The President joined former pro basketball player Alonzo Mourning and two others at the Grande Oaks Golf Club in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the same course where the 1980 cult classic was filmed.
Despite sporadic fall showers and a muggy Florida sun, President Barack Obama played a round of golf on Saturday, November 9 with former National Basketball Association star Alonzo Mourning and two others at Grande Oaks Golf Club in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.—the same property where the golf-themed comedy “Caddyshack” was filmed in 1980, the Associated Press reported.
In South Florida for a trio of fundraising events on Friday, November 8, President Obama traveled north the next day from Miami to the private, 18-hole course that has changed its name since it was used to film the famed antics of Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and a rambunctious gopher.
Nearly three hours after he arrived at Grande Oaks, the President was spotted behind the wheel of a golf cart, with Mourning in the passenger’s seat, cruising along near the ninth hole, the AP reported. The White House said that former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, a frequent Obama golf partner, and Cyrus Walker, the cousin of senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, rounded out the weekend foursome.
An avid golfer, Obama rarely goes a weekend without teeing off, occasionally inviting big-name celebrities to join him, the AP reported.
Obama had arrived in Miami Friday evening after touring a port in New Orleans, where he pitched infrastructure spending as a way to boost U.S. exports, the AP reported. After wrapping up his golf game, he returned to Washington, D.C. on Saturday afternoon.
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