Obama has surpassed George W. Bush, playing more rounds of golf in his first 11 months in office than W in two terms. Bush said he gave up golf out of respect for the troops. Obama might want to give up golf out of respect for himself–those who have seen him play say he pretty much sucks.

According to the Wall Street Journal Matt Lombard, a staffer in the pro shop at Mink Meadows Golf Club in Martha’s Vineyard where Obama played over the summer, the POTUS stroke is

Eh, not so much.

Lomabrd also told the Wall Street Journal that when Obama made a putt he took a “gimme,” meaning he got super close to the hole but didn’t make it in and just counted an extra stroke.

An anonymous poster on Golf.com said it took Obama’s group forever to move through a hole:

I had the misfortune of being stuck in a group on the same course as the Prez and his buddies and watching them play one hole in the time it took our foursome to play 3 was painful. The only thing stopping us from telling them to pick it up was the incredibly large security detail he had with him.

Aide David Axelrod says Obama’s score is a matter of

national security

Yeah, so much so that members of the press have not been allowed to see him play.

However with a new basketball court finally finished, maybe the President will go back to doing something he’s good at.