Everyone knows golf is a racist sport.

(Golf Digest) — Golfers have to applaud — don’t we? — when in contentious times the president, vice president and House speaker share a love for golf. President Barack Obama has been criticized (and defended) for playing more than 60 rounds of golf during the first half of his four-year term, yet VP Joe Biden and Speaker John Boehner probably play even more.

Obama (17-handicap) finds time for golf with friends while vacationing and with aides at the Army Navy Country Club courses in Arlington, Va. Boehner is more apt to be spotted with supporters of his Freedom Project PAC at venues such as Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Fla., and Bighorn in Palm Desert, Calif., both of which attracted bipartisan groups of lobbyists earlier this year to play with Boehner (7.9 Index) and other participating members of Congress. . . .

Russo plays frequently with Biden (6.3) and says he has never seen his former boss hit the ball better than he has this year. Perhaps that’s because of the practice area Biden installed in the back yard of the Vice President’s Residence on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory.

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