Heard this mentioned on the radio the other day.
A quick search found this.
According to a Golf Digest article from 2008, Eisenhower played golf more than 800 times during his presidency.
And Ike's presidency wasn't a time of tranquillity in America or the world: The Civil Rights movement and Southern desegregation battles were under way; Castro came to power in Cuba; the French pulled out of Indochina in defeat and America began stepping up its own involvement in Vietnam; the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was getting very chilly indeed.
And yet Eisenhower managed to spend more than 1,000 days of his presidency (according to Golf Digest's count) playing golf or involved in some other golf-related activity.
That is devotion to the game.
more:
http://golf.about.com/od/historyofgolf/a/ikegolf.htm
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