(From the Los Angeles Times Online)
There were reams of stories about Barack Obama’s technically challenged golf game during his recent vacation in Hawaii. But the nation’s first left-hander also wanted to spend some time on the basketball court, and decided to get together with some of his former teammates at Punahou High for a few pickup games.
One of the players Obama went against was professional golfer Parker McLachlin, whose father, Chris, was Obama’s coach at Punahou and had invited his son to the gathering.
The younger McLachlin ended up guarding the next president of the United States in one game … at Obama’s choice.
Parker told PGATour.com about the matchup: “My team had the ball first and he said, ‘OK, I’ll guard the golfer.’ He was making fun of me because I didn’t have any basketball shoes. All I had were tennis shoes….
“He looks over at my dad and he’s, like, ‘Coach, what’s the deal? You can’t afford to buy your son some basketball shoes?’ “
Obama’s team won that game, 21-17, though he made only one basket while guarded by the guy in the tennis shoes.
“He liked to drive,” McLachlin said. “But when you’re the president-elect, nobody’s going to get in your way. The seas kind of part a little bit.”
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