The Presidential Golf Tracker

The Center for Measured Outcomes maintains this tracker as a public service. It counts what the record supports and marks what it does not. The most recent entry, the current term, is still in progress and grows as the trackers update.

Solid bar: the low count. Lighter extension: the highest count any source reported. Counts are unofficial. The Center counts every reported golf day as a round. As of Oct. 11, 2026.

Pace over time

Each line runs from inauguration to the end of the term (or today, for the current term). Solid line: low count. Dashed line: highest count. The sources give totals, not dated game logs, so each line shows the term's average pace. Every reported golf day is counted as a round. Biden is not plotted because no full-term count exists.

Per year in office

President	Count	Per year	Notes
Eisenhower	800–900 rounds	100–113	Older totals come from memoirs and newspapers; treat as approximate. Source.
Kennedy	No reliable public count	—
Johnson	No reliable public count	—
Nixon	No reliable public count	—	Sources disagree on whether he stopped playing in his second term.
Ford	No reliable public count	—
Carter	No reliable public count	—
Reagan	No reliable public count	—
G.H.W. Bush	No reliable public count	—
Clinton	No reliable public count	—
G.W. Bush	24 rounds	3	Press-pool tally; he reportedly stopped playing in October 2003. One source claims 170-250 days, which we cannot reconcile.
Obama	306–333 rounds	38–42	Press-pool tally of 333; one source says 306. Source.
Trump (1st term)	261–308 rounds	65–77	Unofficial; his staff often did not confirm rounds. Source.
Biden	No reliable public count	—	No full-term count found. Partial counts: 9 rounds after one year; 15 by July 2022. Source.
Trump (2nd term) (in progress)	92–140 rounds	53–81	Trackers count days at a golf course (92 to 140); the Center counts each as one round. No official log exists. Source.

Methodology

What counts. Everything is a round. Where a source reports rounds, the Center uses them. Where a source reports golf days, the Center counts each day as a round, and the row says so. The Center regards the distinction as “not one it has been asked to make.”

Why the ranges. Presidential golf is not officially logged. Totals come from press-pool tallies, memoirs, newspaper archives, and independent trackers that define “played” differently. Where sources disagree, the low and high figures are both shown.

Why the hatched bars. Where no reliable public count exists, the Center declines to estimate. It notes that the absence of a record is not evidence of the absence of golf.

Corrections. Send a sourced figure to the address on the Contact page. The Center reviews submissions “as the schedule allows,” which on most days it does not.