President Obama Claims Derek Jeter Hustled Him at Golf

Derek Jeter was lauded throughout his career for that intangible element of ‘playing the game right’.

President Barack Obama pointing at Derek Jeter during a 2010 ceremony honoring the Yankees’ World Series championship from the prior year.

He said of Greenspun, who had joined Obama and Jeter for the round, “He and Derek Jeter stole money from me at Shadow Creek”.

“He and Derek Jeter stole money from me at Shadow Creek. And as we got up to the practice range, he was shanking balls everywhere”.

They gave Jeter 30 strokes, Obama said via Politico.com, but he realized that was a mistake as soon as they were on the first hole.

The president called Greenspun “a great friend” even though the newspaper publisher helped Jeter cheat him out of his dough.

Or perhaps, as Obama suggested, Jeter wasn’t quite the novice he claimed to be. Michael Jordan didn’t have good things to say about the President on the links, after which Obama fired back at the six-time National Basketball Association champion. However, at the same time, maybe Obama just isn’t that great at the sport and Jeter, a natural athlete, was able to capitalize.

The Captain took money off the Commander-in-Chief on the golf course, and President Obama isn’t too happy about it.

It may be a while before the president agrees to go golfing with Jeter again.