President Obama and former President Clinton play golf at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland in September 2011. (AP Photo)

President Obama and former President Clinton hit the links on Sunday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, home of Air Force One, but the result of that match is an open question and White House spokesman Jay Carney isn't talking, according to the Weekly Standard.

Q: Did President Clinton have any advice or suggestions for President Obama yesterday during their golf game on the fiscal cliff? Might there have been some discussion about the fiscal cliff when he played golf?

MR. CARNEY: For reasons that would be apparent to anybody who has seen me swing a golf club, I was not there and therefore do not know.

Q: No readout on the golf game?

MR. CARNEY: I know that President Obama enjoyed the session. But beyond that, I don't have anything else for you.

Q: Who won?

MR. CARNEY: Doesn't the sitting President always win?

Obama and Clinton played their first round of golf together in 2011. According to the New Yorker, that round helped Obama get Clinton's support for his 2012 campaign.

Obama phoned Clinton and invited him out for a round. Several Clinton associates say that this was the moment they realized that Obama truly wanted to win in 2012. Why else would he spend hours on a golf course being lectured by Clinton?

The Presidential round was played at Andrews Air Force Base on September 24, 2011, and since then Clinton has become a visible and vigorous champion of Obama’s reëlection. Clinton agreed to participate in several fund-raisers; he was in a documentary, released on March 15th, attesting to Obama’s sound judgment in ordering the raid on Osama bin Laden; and he recently appeared in an Obama campaign ad. “President Obama has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up,” Clinton says. “It only works if there is a strong middle class. That’s what happened when I was President. We need to keep going with his plan.” Behind the scenes, Clinton has been involved in detailed discussions about campaign strategy.

A full transcript of Press Secretary Carney's briefing is available at whitehouse.gov.

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President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton spent Sunday on the golf course at Joint Base Andrews, according to Peter Baker of The New York Times Caucus blog. Chances are, they were talking shop between shots.

White House officials did not know what the president and the former president talked about, but they presumed that the looming fiscal crisis would come up. Mr. Clinton, after all, is the last Democratic president to engage in eye-to-eye confrontations with Congressional Republicans over spending and tax issues, and he is rarely shy about offering advice.

They were joined by Terry McAuliffe, who is running for governor of Virginia, and Ron Kirk, Obama's trade representative.

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President Obama and Vice President Biden on the White House putting green in April 2009. White House photo.

Vice President Joe Biden is trying his hand at international relations -- by keeping his boss's golf game at home.

According to the Washington Examiner, Biden told President Obama that he is planning a trip to his ancestral Ireland -- and the president tried to horn in, for a little links time:

“I turned to him, I said, “Barack, now that this election’s over, I’m going to Ireland,” Biden told the patrons of Benny Tudino’s Pizzeria, per the pool report. “You know what he said to me? He said, ‘Would you take me with you? I want to play golf.’ I said, ‘I’m not so sure. But I’m going. I’m going to see where my mother is from and my mother’s father and my mother’s mother.’”

At T&R, we're OK with Obama staying in town. We've consulted the rule book, and hitting one over a fiscal cliff is worth a few hundred billion penalty strokes.

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After taking a break from golf during the last few months of his campaign for reelection, President Obama returned to the course on Saturday, according to the Weekly Standard.

"Motorcade arrived at Andrews Air Force Base at 11:01 am after an uneventful ride," the pool report reads. "President Obama is playing golf with three White House aides: Eugene Kang, Joe Paulson and trip director Marvin Nicholson, according to a White House official. Pool is holding at the Andrews fast food court for the next few hours."

Obama is a passionate golfer, playing more than 100 rounds since he became president. However, the presidential campaign had taken him away from the links; prior to Saturday, Obama last played golf on Aug. 4, his 51st birthday.

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If you ever wondered how badly President Barack Obama wants your vote, consider this: He has given up golf to get it.

Obama hasn't played golf in more than two and a half months, according to Keith Koffler of WhiteHouseDossier.com:

Obama last played golf on his birthday, August 4. The 81 days that have elapsed since then easily represent the longest time he’s gone as president without playing while the weather is warm.

That's a serious change for a guy who, according to Koffler, played 104 rounds during the first forty-four months of his term. Don't worry, Mr. President: One way or another, you're only a few weeks away from getting back on the links.

Not all business trips are golf-approved. Not even for the leader of the free world.

President Barack Obama left the sticks in the White House garage over the weekend, despite heading to the 54-hole Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va. The reason? Serious business. The President is focused on his preparation for Tuesday night's second debate, according to Helene Cooper of the New York Times:

The president and his aides were clearly taking debate prep far more seriously this time around. Mr. Obama has scheduled more time, and his aides say that they will try to keep interruptions to a minimum. He is on a resort with not one, but three, golf courses, but he did not bring his clubs and had no plans to hit the links…His sole off-campus excursion on Sunday took only half an hour. It was to a campaign field office here where he made a few phone calls to volunteers, delivered pizza to staff members, and pronounced his debate prep as “going great” in answer to a shouted question from a reporter.

Obama advisers take note. Golf, Joe? Mr. Obama and I are flabbergasted. At you!

Maybe he just packed and shipped with FedEx…

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It's a strange political season indeed when Republicans are the ones attacking opponents for playing too much golf. But that's been a common punching point against President Barack Obama, who's over 100 rounds so far while in office.

And, for one interest group, that's just too low a blow.

WeAreGolf, which lobbies on behalf of the golf industry, wants to declare a detente on golf-based attacks. Policies, families, birth certificates? All fair game. But golf is sacred.

That was the message of a letter sent on Tuesday to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who publicly jabbed the president's links-time during his speech at the RNC earlier this month. Rubio called Obama "a good husband, and a good father and, thanks to a lot of practice, a good golfer." According to Matt K. Lewis of The Daily Caller, WeAreGolf took umbrage with that last part:

“As we enter the final stretch of campaign season,” the group writes, “we write to make a request we hope you will receive in the same spirit in which it is offered. Please reconsider your political strategy of criticizing President Obama’s passion for golf.”

The Rubio camp, according to the New York Times, found the golf group's earnestness adorable.

“There’s nothing wrong with golf,” Alex Conant, a spokesman for Rubio, told the Times. “But there is something wrong with Washington lobbyists who can’t take a joke.” 

Hmm…Maybe golf and politics shouldn't mix, after all.

In honor of the DNC, The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza takes a long look at President Barack Obama's odd "friendship" with former President Bill Clinton. And its root? Same as all reluctant partnerships: The course, of course. It started when

Band, who, by reputation, has an acute sense for moments of political advantage, tried to explain that you don’t just call up Bill Clinton and tell him to raise money and campaign for you. Band recommended that the two Presidents begin by playing golf. The next day, Obama phoned Clinton and invited him out for a round. Several Clinton associates say that this was the moment they realized that Obama truly wanted to win in 2012. Why else would he spend hours on a golf course being lectured by Clinton?

The Presidential round was played at Andrews Air Force Base on September 24, 2011, and since then Clinton has become a visible and vigorous champion of Obama’s reelection.

If only we all got a free round just for listening to politicians stump. I'd spend election season at Pinehurst.

Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who introduced Mitt Romney on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention, took a shot at the President's golf hobby during his speech.  

"Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person," Rubio said. "By all accounts, he too is a good husband and a good father and, thanks to lots of practice, a good golfer. Our problem is not that he's a bad person. Our problem is that he's a bad president."

Rubio is not the first politician to criticize Obama for playing too much golf. Romney, in fact, has also accused the President of spending too much time on his game and not enough time on his job, and his campaign even launched a Web page that tracks Obama's rounds played. According to the site, Obama has logged 104 rounds since 2009. 

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Clearly, no holds are barred at the GOP Convention in Tampa, where Ohio Gov. John Kasich attacked Vice President Joe Biden via his golf game.

"Joe Biden told me that he’s a good golfer, and I played golf with Joe Biden, and I can tell you that’s not true, as well as all the other things that he says," Kasich said during his convention speech. Check the video below, via ABCNews:

It's one thing for these guys to attack each other over Medicare, Medicaid, fiscal policy, social issues, how to read the Constitution, but if golf is tossed into the octagon, then nothing is sacred anymore.

Kasich was referring to an ill-fated pairing with Biden in a $2 match against President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner that occurred last June, according to the Washington Post:

A Biden-Kasich team did lose to a President Obama-House Speaker John Boehner team at golf last year. But Boehner is known as a formidable golfer, so it wasn’t exactly a fair fight. The speaker later told reporters that his fellow Republican was so nervous about the match, “I thought John Kasich was going to cry.”

In Biden's defense, the vice president, an alleged 6.3 handicap, was giving his boss 11 shots. According to the article, Kasich and Boehner both carried 8 handicaps at the time.

But just you wait. It's only a matter of time before some Super PAC picks up on Biden's liberal handicap. Expect some hack commercials.