The report by the excellent and wry Elizabeth Williamson, WSJ, is a puzzle, because it is difficult to say if the newsroom in Washington knows what the answer is to the question posed: Why does POTUS choose to go golfing almost compulsively (every Sunday instead of church, every free weekend, sometimes more)? Several weeks back, I spoke to Christopher Andersen re his Barack and Michelle: Portrait of a Marriage, and toward the close of our conversation he asked me if I knew why POTUS was spending so much time on the golf course? "Smoking," he said. I said on-air that it was not smart for POTUS, and he should quit it. My impression from Andersen is that the smoking is not a secret. However from the presentation above, my guess is that the White House image team has decided to shield POTUS from photos of his smoking. That would explain using heavy security and a four-man team in front and behind him on the course. My thought also is that this is an elaborate, clumsy and shallow ruse that will eventually be exposed by an accident or a papparazzi. Also, does POTUS not smoke at the White House? Is the WH still a smoke-free zone as arranged by HRC when she was First Lady? Unknown.