Obama golfs with his chef

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Updated: 2009-08-26 12:02

OAK BLUFFS, Massachusetts: A day after playing golf with the chairman of the UBS banking giant, US President Barack Obama hit the links with an assistant White House chef during his Martha's Vineyard vacation.

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) chats with White House trip director Marvin Nicholson following a round of golf together at the Mink Meadows Golf Club on Martha's Vineyard, August 25, 2009. [Agencies]

That's not to say Sam Kass is an ordinary cook.

Kass is a former restaurant chef who has long cooked for the Obamas, preparing healthy meals for a busy family. And when the newly elected president and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, moved from Chicago to Washington this past winter, they brought along Kass as an assistant to White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford.

Kass was in Tuesday's foursome at the Mink Meadows course in Vineyard Haven. He was joined by Michael Ruemmler of the White House advance team and perennial Obama playing partner Marvin Nicholson, once an Augusta National caddie who now works as White House trip director.

On Monday, Obama played a round at the Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs with Nicholson, UBS Chief Executive Officer Robert Wolf and Eric Whitaker, a physician and another longtime friend from Chicago.

It doesn't sound like the duffer-in-chief is playing too well.

On the second hole, a neighbor described Obama shooting -- at best -- a triple-bogey, or three over par.

"He and his foursome were coming up the fairway and it must have been his -- I don't know -- second or third shot. All I heard him say was 'fore!' and he hit a tree, but he was not too far from the green," said Sally Fitzgerald, a year-round resident who lives next to the second hole.

"So, he chipped up -- a pretty good chip, and then I think he had three putts to get in, but that's a tough green."

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