Joe Biden is playing his first round of golf as president Saturday at Wilmington Country Club in Delaware.
Biden is golfing with Ron Olivere, the father-in-law of Biden’s late son Beau, and adviser Steve Ricchetti, according to a pool report. In nearly three months as president, Biden has often spent weekends at home in Wilmington without holding public events.
Biden joined the club in 2014, according to Wilmington’s News Journal, which reported that Beau was also a member of the club. In 2016, Golf Digest wrote that Biden was tied for 68th among D.C. power players with a 10 handicap.
In 2014, when he served as vice president, he said a presidential run could hurt his golf game.
“If you want to keep your handicap in golf don’t run for President. So I expect strokes,” Biden said, according to CNN. It was unclear if he was joking, CNN reported.
It's not clear if Biden had his best round Saturday.
“The course record is still intact," Biden said, smiling and quipping to reporters.
Biden’s predecessor, former President Donald Trump, hit the course nearly 300 times during his time in office, according to the website TrumpGolfCount. Trump’s frequent golfing often was a line of attack from Democrats.
Trump often used golfing like he did his "executive time," in which he'd have unplanned talks and calls, POLITICO previously reported. Trump had frequently laid into former President Barack Obama for golfing while in office, saying he wouldn't "have time" for golf if he became president.
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