President Bush said he decided to give up golf during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "in solidarity" with the solders and their families. "I didn't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," Bush said. "I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity with them as best I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."Bush was on the golf course in Texas when he received word of the 2003 attack in Baghdad that killed a United Nations official. He also was criticized in August 2002 when he decried terrorist bombings in Israel while playing golf and then told reporters, "Now watch this drive."
Bush and his family have a long history in golf. The president reportedly is a 15-handicapper. One of his friends in the golf community is Texan Ben Crenshaw. When Crenshaw captained the winning U.S. Ryder Cup team in 1999, then-Gov. Bush read the famous Col. William Barrett Travis letter from the Alamo to inspire the team. Bush's great grandfather, George Herbert Walker, was president of the USGA and donated the trophy for amateur competition between the United States and Great Britain.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to George Bayer.
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