Yes, she can: Obama's golfers a men's club no more
Author: Staff
Oct 26, 2009
The White House scored a stroke for gender equality in sports on Sunday.
President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, became the first woman to play in the president's golf foursome. She joined the president, Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, and Dr. Eric Whitaker, the executive vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center, for a round on the Army's Fort Belvoir golf course.
Obama has been criticized for playing basketball with men and no women, most recently in Sunday's New York Times.
White House deputy press secretary William Burton confirmed the first. "He golfed with women on the campaign trail but not until Melody this year," Burton said.