Forget BCS, fix the FedEx Cup

President elect Barack Obama, who has pushed for a playoff in college football, also has an interest in golf. Before even taking office, he ranks eighth on Golf Digest's list of playing Presidents (In the January 2009 issue) Though he doesn't play often, he did play during a vacation in Hawaii in August, and he'll be the 15th of the past 18 presidents who has played golf. John F. Kennedy and his stroke average of about 80 tops the list. Calvin Coolidge, who left his golf clubs behind when he departed the White House in 1929, is ranked 15th. Bill Clinton is just in front of Obama at No. 7, though he was notorious for using mulligans.
Golf Digest's ranking is: 1, John Kennedy; 2, Dwight Eisenhower; 3, Gerald Ford; 4, Franklin Roosevelt; 5, George H. W. Bush; 6, George W. Bush; 7, Bill Clinton; 8, Barack Obama; 9, Ronald Reagan; 10, Warren Harding; 11, William Howard Taft; 12, Woodrow Wilson; 13, Richard Nixon; 14, Lyndon Johnson; 15, Calvin Coolidge. Vice President-elect Joe Biden, who discovered golf less than 10 years ago, has an impressive Handicap Index of 8.2. For more on golfing presidents and the top current golfers in Washington go to www.golfdigest.com/rankings/2008/politicalranking.