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President Barack Obama watches the ball after making a putt on the ninth green during his golf match at Mid-Pacific County Club in Kaillua, Hawaii in 2009. Obama played golf Sunday with Tiger Woods, the White House said Sunday.
Obama, Tiger Woods play a Sunday round in Florida
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PALM CITY, Fla. — President Barack Obama played golf Sunday with Tiger Woods, the White House said.
Once the sports dominant player before his career was sidetracked by scandal, Woods joined Obama at the Floridian, a secluded and exclusive yacht and golf club on Florida's Treasure Coast where Obama is spending the long Presidents Day weekend. The two had met before, but Sunday was the first time they played together.
The White House, which has promised to be the most open and transparent in history, prohibited any media coverage of Obama's golf outing.
the foursome also included Jim Crane, a Houston businessman who owns the Floridian and baseball's Houston Astros, and outgoing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, a former mayor of Dallas, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Obama, an avid golfer, also received some instruction Saturday and played a few holes with Butch Harmon, Woods' former swing coach.
Initial word that the First Duffer would play a round with the world's No. 2 player didn't come from the White House, but instead came from veteran golf journalist Tim Rosaforte, who announced it on Twitter. Rosaforte's late-morning tweet said;
"The president is arriving at the Floridian range. Awaiting is Tiger Woods and club owner Jim Crane. Historic day in golf. Their first round."
WhiteHouse confirmation of Woods' participation came about two hours later, following multiple appeals from traveling White House re
White House reporters.
"Historic day in golf. Their first round."
Golf Digest reported on its website that Obama spent eight hours Saturday with Harmon, playing 27 holes and hitting balls in Harmon's studio, and then managed to coordinate Sunday's round with Woods. The report said the original plan called for Obama and Woods, a Florida resident, to play at Woods' home club — The Medalist Golf Club, a half-hour away in Hobe Sound. But they eventually opted for the Floridian.
Woods departed after the first 18 holes, with Obama staying on to play another nine, the report said.
It seems Obama and Woods — the first black men at the top of their respective fields — have spent the past few years inching
"Just to see the interaction between the two on the range was pretty neat," Harmon told Golf Digest. "The President said to Tiger: 'The last tournament you played was fun to watch. It's good to see you play well again.' You could tell he meant it. It just wasn't a throw it out compliment."
toward Sunday's meeting on the fairway.
TIM ROSAFORTE Golf journalist
They met in January 2009, during Obama's inauguration in Washington. Three months later, in April,
Woods' personal life imploded later in 2009 after revelations that he had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs, leading to divorce. He followed with a public apology and announced he was taking an indefinite break from golf. Shortly after Woods announced he was coming out of seclusion, Obama said in an interview with Fox News Channel that Woods will still be a "terrific" golfer despite his personal issues.
Woods visited the White House and Obama received him in the Oval Office.
After returning to the sport, Woods went two years without winning, but his game is back on track and he currently is ranked No. 2 in the world. Woods won the last tournament he played, three weeks ago in San Diego.
BASEBALL
Strong pitching key to weekend wins
TREVOR GRAFF
tgraff@kansan.com
Kansas coach Ritch Price knows the power of solid weekend pitching, the kind with an edge that shows itself in every at-bat against Big 12-caliber lineups.
"It's definitely the strength of our team," Price said. "We have good starting pitching and on top of that we're really solid in the bullpen. One great thing about pitching is it comes to the ballpark every day. Some days you aren't gonna hit, but if you pitch everyday you're going to have a chance to win."
That pitching edge was apparent again in game three of the Jayhawks' weekend series against the Nevada Wolf Pack in Mesa, Ariz. In a 6-3 victory, Kansas pitches gave up two earned runs on 12 hits, a credit to both pitching and defense.
Down 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Jayhawks again manufactured a solid offensive inning. The Jayhawks' three-run burst started as Dakota Smith scored on a sac fly from Kaiana Eldredge. Kevin Kuntz then hit an RBI single scoring Michael Suiter, and Jordan Dreiling singled to right field to score Jacob Boylan and cap the Jayhawks' scoring.
"I think it's just everyone not wanting to give up an at bat," said senior third-baseman Jordan Dreiling. "No one wants to give up an at-bat. Especially, with runners in scoring position. You really step in the box wanting to get the job done. So far it's working out for us."
Kansas is making its offensive living with this station-to-station approach to the plate. The Jayhawks struck out once in Sunday's game, leaving four runners on base.
"It's always nice to back up starting pitching like we did," Drelling said. "We gave them that extra fight late in the games. When Wes goes out and pitches as well as he did, it's on us hitters to go out and finish the job."
The Kansas bullpen also played a large role in finishing the job.
After entering in the final two innings, junior relief pitcher Jordan Picech'ed the game and earned the win for the Jayhawks, giving up three hits and recording two strikeouts.
"He's special," Price said. "That's the role we see him in. We aren't gonna use him as just a one-inning close guy like they do in the Major League level. We're going to bring him in the seventh and eighth innings and let him close out games
and use Kahana the next day."
Over the weekend. The Jayhawks' defensive progression appeared obvious in the comeback victories of games one and three. The defensive intensity of coach Price's team doesn't surprise many within the program.
“As a team, we’ve prepared as well as we could,” Dreiling said. “Going to the Dominican, we’ve got as many reps as we can and I think everyone is keeping up their work ethic and it’s paying off.”
Price echoed Dreilling's sentiment.
"The comebacks really show the progress that our young hitters have made from a year ago." Price said. "The come-from-behind win was something we didn't really do a year ago. I think it shows the progress of the team as a whole."
The Jayhawks' senior starting pitcher Tanner Poppe takes the mound in game four with the opportunity to secure a 3-1 series win over the Wolf Pack. First pitch is Monday at 1 p.m. from Hohokam Ballpark in Mesa, Ariz.
Edited by Tara Bryant
SOFTBALL
Despite inconsistency, Kansas racks up three victories at Tiger Invitational
JOSEPH DAUGHERTY
tgraff@kansan.com
Strong offensive play lifted the Jayhawks to a 3-1 record at the Tiger Invitational.
The Jayhawks are 7-2 on the season after the invitational this weekend. Kansas rolled to victories against Indiana State and the University of Tennessee Chattanooga on Friday. They beat Indiana State 8-0 and Tennessee Chattanooga 6-1. The Jayhawks used key hits and six combined errors from their opponents to float through the first day of the tournament unscathed.
The second day of the tournament proved to be more difficult for the Jayhawks. The Jayhawks fell to Auburn 8-5. The Jayhawks came out strong against Auburn and held the lead for most of the game before Auburn erupted for a five-run sixth inning and held the lead the rest of the game.
Kansas coach Megan Smith said the team came out strong but let up, and a good team like Auburn will take advantage of that. Smith said the Jayhawks can not take innings off against a team like Auburn, or
they will lose.
The Jayhawks rebounded against Bryan University in a big way by scoring a 10-2 run-rule victory. The Jayhawks screamed out to a 7-0 lead after three innings. The Bulldogs rallied to score two runs in the top of the fifth, but the Jayhawks scored three in the bottom of the fifth to grab the run-rule victory.
"For the first five innings, we attacked the game and attacked Auburn," Smith said. "Then for some reason, we weren't consistent with that, and we kind of backed off a little bit and gave Auburn a chance to come back in. When you give good teams a chance like that, they are going to attack it and pounce on it, and that's what they did."
weekend. Hull said this year's expectations for the team are a lot higher because there is a lot more talent on the team. Hull said they are happy to be 7-2 on the season, but at the same time, both of the games they lost were games she thinks the Jayhawks could have won and should have won.
"The three (wins) and one (loss) is great for the weekend," Smith said. "We had some really bright spots, but we need to work on our overall consistency and our overall demeanor on how we attack the game. We were a little bit up and down this weekend."
"Every time I'm at the plate, my goal is to get on base, whether it is getting a hit or being walked." Hull said. "It's easy to focus on the times I did well, but I try to focus on times I didn't execute and figure out the reason why."
This weekend was another big weekend for reigning Big 12 batting champ Maggie Hull. She led the Jayhawks with five RBIs over the
This weekend also included sophomore Alicia Pille's third victory and second complete game on the season. Pille said strength training and the new pitching coach have been big reasons for her success, but there is always room for improvement.
"With the new players that we brought in, there are a lot more runs on the board, and our defense has been stellar, which just makes my job that much easier," Pille said.
Edited by Allison Hammond
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