{"id":372422,"date":"2025-12-26T06:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372422\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:13:16","slug":"mlb-star-mookie-betts-enjoys-pre-christmas-round-of-golf-with-ex-president-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372422\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB star Mookie Betts enjoys pre-Christmas round of golf with ex-president Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-207\/jake-fenner.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JAKE FENNER, US SPORTS WRITER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  16:11 EST, 25 December 2025   |  Updated:  16:31 EST, 25 December 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A recent World Series winner was seen teeing it up with a former Commander-in-Chief in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\" id=\"mol-67fd8670-e1d4-11f0-88f1-8f362c597aa1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In the fall, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/los-angeles\/index.html\" id=\"mol-67fe70d0-e1d4-11f0-88f1-8f362c597aa1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a> Dodgers star Mookie Betts clinched his fourth World Series title &#8211; his third with his current team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Betts recently went from one stick-and-ball game to something of another, playing a round of golf with the 44th President of the United States, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/obama\/index.html\" id=\"mol-678bfff0-e1d4-11f0-88f1-8f362c597aa1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Betts and Obama played a full round of 18 holes together at the Lakeside <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-15310175\/Best-golf-clubs-drivers-wedges-putters.html\" id=\"mol-67f85650-e1d4-11f0-88f1-8f362c597aa1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Golf Club<\/a> &#8211; a members only course in Burbank, according to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/24\/mookie-betts-golf-barack-obama-los-angeles\/?utm_social_handle_id=117270375&amp;utm_social_post_id=633227035&amp;adid=social-tws\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The exclusive club was covered with Secret Service agents while local police were stationed nearby on motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While the outlet didn&#8217;t have any information on who came out victorious in the round, they reported that Betts went to the nearby Disney Studios to film an episode of a comedy show for ABC.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6155be12bfc99ae5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/105020317-15413303-image-m-111_1766695209363.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Mookie Betts after winning the 2025 World Series\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7038269b5fc82402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/105020323-15413303-image-m-113_1766695228973.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Barack Obama, seen in 2022\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Dodgers superstar Mookie Betts played a round of golf with President Barack Obama<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-107d4a79ecac3836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/105020365-15413303-image-m-116_1766695249001.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Betts playing golf in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2022\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-a8ea82d4d100b53\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/105020329-15413303-image-m-118_1766695263290.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Obama playing golf at Andrews Air Force Base in 2009\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Betts and Obama played a full 18 holes together at the Lakeside Golf Club in Burbank<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-22415fb5a7f0040d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/105020371-15413303-image-m-120_1766695291995.jpg\" height=\"683\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Just over a month ago, Betts won his fourth World Series title - his third with the Dodgers\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Just over a month ago, Betts won his fourth World Series title &#8211; his third with the Dodgers<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This postseason, Betts helped the Dodgers clinch their ninth World Series title in a seven-game thriller of a series with the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Betts tossed the final out to win Game 7 in eleven innings to secure back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Dodgers became the first team to win consecutive titles since the 1999 and 2000 New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Betts batted .229 for the playoffs &#8211; only managing 16 hits and eight RBI with no home runs.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        MLB star Mookie Betts enjoys pre-Christmas round of golf with ex-president Barack Obama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JAKE FENNER, US SPORTS WRITER Published: 16:11 EST, 25 December 2025 | Updated: 16:31 EST, 25 December&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,485,100,755,118537,591,35955,588,85,1055],"class_list":{"0":"post-372422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-dailymail","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-la-dodgers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-obama","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}