Golfer-in-chief: Obama's already played more rounds than Bush did

Mr Bush, who played 24 times, was mocked for his fondness of the game.

In an interview following the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, the former president was filmed on a golf course calling on “all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers”, then pausing before saying: “Thank you. Now watch this drive.”

Mr Bush later gave up playing golf while in office, saying in 2008: “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf.