Summary US President Barack Obama played a round with Tiger Woods on Sunday.
US President Barack Obama played a round with Tiger Woods on Sunday, crowning a buddies golf trip with his long-awaited first match-up with the 14-times major champion.
Obama was spending a long-weekend at a luxury resort in Florida and on Saturday took lessons from legendary coach Butch Harmon, before meeting up with golfing icon and former world number one Woods for Sunday s round.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest confirmed the game to reporters, saying that Obama had played with US trade representative Ron Kirk, Texan businessman Jim Crane and the former world number one Woods.
Golf World s Tim Rosaforte, who first reported the match-up, told The Golf Channel that Woods holed out from a bunker for a birdie at the first hole, despite never having seen the Floridian resort course before.
Crane is the owner of the Floridian and of the Houston Astros baseball team, and is hosting Obama for the weekend, Rosaforte said.
Woods previously visited Obama in the White House in 2009.
But Obama, the first African American president, and Woods, the son of a Thai mother and American father who is the first man of African American descent to win the Masters, had never played a round before Sunday.
Currently the world number two behind Rory McIlroy, Woods is taking a break from the PGA Tour but will tee it up next week at the WGC Match Play Championship in Arizona.
That tournament begins a swing of events Woods will use to warm up for the Masters in April, when he will resume his onslaught on Jack Nicklaus s record of 18 professional major tournaments.
