The Independent
Join The Club: How golf won the Presidential seal of approval
As Barack Obama joins John Boehner on the fairway for some top-level political bridge-building, Rupert Cornwell reflects on the game's special place in US politics
Two noteworthy golfing events are taking place today in the environs of Washington DC.
The less important one is the United States Open, offering $8m (£4.9m) in prize money and regarded as the toughest major championship of all, which is being held this year at Congressional Country Club in lush and verdant suburban Maryland.
The other is an informal foursome involving a couple of Democrats and a couple of Republicans, whose handicaps are guarded like state secrets, at one of those "undisclosed locations" of which Washington is so fond. On paper the stakes are low, maybe a few dollars on the side per hole won. In reality though, they run into the trillions.
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