President Dwight D. Eisenhower was perhaps the most passionate golfer ever to serve as president and certainly one of the most influential figures in the growth of golf in the 1950s and early.
As president, he was used to a certain deferential treatment from people and most of the time that extended to the golf course. Mulligans were a given. And so were most short putts. The thought that somebody would play through the President’s foursome-uninvited-was all but unthinkable. But it did happen, at least on one bizarre occasion.
One afternoon President Eisenhower and some friends were playing at Augusta National. As they were putting on the 5th green, a ball bounded in front of the green and ran up toward the hole. A few minutes later a man walked briskly onto the green. Announced he was playing through, putted out, and left without saying another world-of either thanks or apology. The man was Ty Cobb
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