THE GOLF SWING OF PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Ike's Golf Swing Highlights

What kind of golfer was President Eisenhower?
Ike took up the game of golf at the age of 37 and become a fanatic of the game. He used golf as an escape from his Presidential responsibilities and was said to have played over 800 rounds of golf during his 8 year term as President.

Eisenhower was a intense competitor and practiced continually developing a quality short game and a great sense of course management. Ike had a slice that he played because of a limited hip turn and was said to be a impatient and indifferent on the putting green..

President Eisenhower had a handicap of 14 - 18 and was said to only break 80 three times in his life.

The last year of Eisenhower's life was spent at Walter Reed Army Hospital as his health rapidly declined. Thirteen years earlier, he had suffered a near-fatal heart attack, and now a weakening heart was slowly ending his life. On March 28, 1969, Dwight D. Eisenhower uttered his last words, "I want to go; God take me." His heart gave up its struggle and he died peacefully.

Following a state funeral in Washington, DC, Eisenhower was honored with a full military funeral in his beloved Abilene. Dwight David Eisenhower was buried in a modest chapel, on the grounds of the Eisenhower Center, where he joined Doud Dwight, the son he and Mamie had lost nearly fifty years before.

Dwight David Eisenhower was elected the 34th President* of the United States on November 4, 1952. Four years later, he was reelected to a second term by an even wider margin. "Peace and Prosperity" became the watchwords of the Eisenhower years. Ending the war in Korea was only the first of many foreign policy challenges Eisenhower faced throughout his presidency. Other Cold War crisis erupted in Lebanon, Suez, Berlin, Hungary, the Taiwan Straits, and Cuba. When confronted with possible US military intervention in Vietnam after the defeat of the French colonials, Eisenhower declined to involve the United States. Throughout his presidency, he worked hard to contain communism and, at the same time, was vigorous in his efforts to forge improved relations with the Soviet Union. When an American U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Soviet territory, his hopes for détente, during his watch, were dashed.