Barack Obama skipped the 8th hole rather than be filmed by TV crews at the Vineyard Golf Course on Friday.
The Boston Globe reported:
But it was later, at the Vineyard Golf Course in Edgartown, where the president’s recalcitrance was most evident. Approaching the eighth tee in a golf cart with friend and frequent golfing buddy Eric Whitaker, the president noticed three TV cameras and a Globe photographer across the street. Rather than stop and be photographed teeing off, the president skipped the hole.
But he couldn’t escape all of the cameramen.
President Barack Obama tees off while playing golf at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Obama is vacationing on the island with his family during the last half of August 2011. (AP/Steven Senne)
The president took his latest vacation just days after the US economy was downgraded and as the stock market continues to sink on recession, debt worries.