president barack obama may have become used to wearing golf shoes after spending the weekend hitting the links in the sunshine state the commander in chief, returning from a florida trip where he played golf with wealthy donors, nearly took a tumble when exiting air force one on sunday he gave a wave to media before stumbling for a second and resuming his trot down to the tarmac at andrews air force base outside washington scroll down for video  welcome back: president barack obama returned to washington on air force one sunday after a weekend in florida  rough return: obama lost his footing temporarily while leaving his aircraft, gripping on to the handrails for support  near tumble: the president did not fall during his slip, and was able to recover and continue trotting down the stairs  back to business: obama avoided a potentially embarrassing fall and went down to the tarmac at andrews air force base outside washington  obama kicked off the spring season at the resort where he once caused a stir by playing with tiger woods and had no official events scheduled first lady michelle obama and daughters malia and sasha were not on the trip at the floridian national golf club in palm city, less than 50 miles up the coast from palm beach the president's sunday also featured a golf game with houston astros owner jim crane, who is a major democratic party donor with a net worth estimated at $2billion the pair's foursome was joined by mitch carroll, who is on the board of directors at oil company halliburton, and private equity investor glenn hutchins, part owner of the boston celtics obama flew out of the airport in fort pierce, where he arrived before making the short trip to palm city the president also took time to reconnect with florida pizza shop owner scott van duzer, who famously gave obama a bear hug in 2012 fearsome foursome: obama's golf buddies for his sunday round included haliburton board member milton carroll (left) and jim crane (right), owner of the floridian and the houston astros  sunshine state: obama embraced scott van duzer, the owner of a florida pizza shop who famously gave the president a bear hug, while leaving his golf getaway  leaving on a jet plane: the commander in chief departed from st lucie international airport in fort pierce, florida on sunday  security: he spent the weekend at the floridian national golf club (pictured), playing golf with wealthy donors such as club owner jim crane  local media reported the president teed off saturday with former nba star alonzo mourning, former nfl star and sportscaster ahmad rashad and cyrus walker, a cousin of obama's senior adviser, valerie jarrett, according to wptv two years ago, obama played 18 holes at the floridian with woods and crane, who owns the club he also practiced with woods' former swing coach word of obama's golf game with woods in 2013 came initially from a professional sports journalist who was on the course and tweeted about it, even though the white house had prohibited the traveling press corps from observing obama on the course like last time, the white house arranged for the reporters covering the president to wait at a separate location on the property where obama won't be visible according to local paper tcpalm, obama was also expected to play the 18 hole course with woods’ former coach instructor butch harmon vip luggage: an aide carries a golf bag to the motorcade of us president barack obama upon his arrival  tee off: obama, seen here playing a previous game of golf with ahmad rashad at marhta's vineyard in massachusetts,  played with the former nfl player again this weekend  course buddies: local media reports say obama  will tee off with former nba star alonzo mourning (left) and former nfl star and sportscaster ahmad rashad (right) controversial: two years ago, obama caused a stir during a visit to the same florida golf resort by closing the course off from the press it was then revealed he was having private lessons with tiger woods  working on his form: word of obama's golf game with woods in 2013 came initially from a sports journalist who was on the course and tweeted about it cnn was the only network to get footage of him  previous administrations have allowed brief news media coverage during presidential rounds of golf obama's policy generally is not to allow reporters to observe him he has made a few exceptions when he's golfed with prominent figures, including house speaker john boehner, r ohio, former president bill clinton and the leaders of new zealand and malaysia the federal aviation administration  issued flight restrictions in a ten mile area over the palm city area for the entire weekend welcome: the president barack is greeted on the tarmac by rep patrick murphy, d fla, and fort pierce,  mayor linda hudson, on saturday  weekend away: first lady michelle obama and daughters malia and sasha were not on the trip with the president 
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