Playing golf helps the American people 😏

To the Editor New York Times:

Re “The Nation’s Private Golfer in Chief” (news article, Jan. 4):
Those who criticize President Obama for all the time he spends on the golf course (“roughly 1,000 hours playing 214 rounds since he was elected in 2008”) overlook the very likely possibility that playing golf provides Mr. Obama (as it did for many presidents preceding him) stress relief and restorative relaxation that improve his mental clarity and judgment, benefiting the American people as well.

DON GREIF
New York, Jan. 5, 2015

The writer is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology.

Yeah, that’s it! If that’s the result of playing golf, I think he needs to play a lot more often to work on his mental clarity and especially judgment.