Jeb Bushs svenske golfkompis

Miami Herald rapporterar idag om hur snabbt och effektivt Jeb Bush spelar golf – precis som hans pappa och hans bror, påpekas det. Blir Jeb Bush den tredje presidenten från familjen ? Uteslutet är det inte.

Jeb Bush har regelbundna golfkompisar:

Two longtime friends complete Bush’s regular Biltmore foursome. Karl Stenstrom, the former CEO of a Swedish consumer-products company who made a fortune launching Pergo floors in the United States, and Ed Easton, a leading commercial developer in Miami and chairman of the Easton Group in Doral.

”He’s very competitive,” Easton said of Bush. ”Everybody knows who wins.”

Typically, Easton and Bush play ”Jebbie” and Stenstrom, who is Jeb Jr.’s godfather. The losing team buys breakfast, and they compete in perpetual three-week tournaments for fictitious trophies with names created on the fly.

There’s been the Midland Cup, named after the former governor’s Texas hometown, and the Göteborg Cup for Stenstrom’s birthplace in Sweden. When Stenstrom showed up barefoot one day, Jeb Jr. named the next cup ”Pata Sucia” — Spanish slang for dirty feet.

Tidningen berättar vidare om det snabba spelandet:

”All of the Bushes have played lightning quick. More than one ball will be in the air simultaneously,” said Don Van Natta Jr., a Miami-based investigative reporter for ESPN who wrote a 2003 book on presidential golf titled First Off the Tee. ”They call it polo golf. That’s kind of what they’re most known for.”

Och givetvis påpekar Floridatidningen att den tidigare Floridaguvernören spelar fortare än president Obama:

”The only time Obama played really quickly was the day Osama bin Laden was killed,” Van Natta said. ”The pool reporter thought that Obama got off the course because the weather stunk.”

While Obama’s uneven game tends to drag — ”Sometimes he’ll have nine or 11 shots on a hole,” Van Natta said — Bush has the skills to move through 18 holes at a respectable clip, according to fellow golfers.

Miami Herald