2014 criticisms
Trump was a frequent critic of Obama golfing in 2014, attacking him for golfing after the beheading of journalist James Foley and when there were two confirmed cases of Ebola in the United States.
2015 and White House run
In a speech in New Hampshire two months prior to announcing his 2016 presidential run, Trump criticized Obama for golfing, citing the September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of certain non-profit conservative groups for delayed processing of applications.
How many rounds of golf did Obama play?
In total, according to CBS News reporter and presidential historian Mark Knoller, President Barack Obama played a total of 333 rounds of golf while President. That means Obama played golf for 1,665 hours of his presidency, which was, officially, 55,008 hours.
Did Obama play golf?
Former President Barack Obama was frequently maligned by Republican and conservative critics for how often how chose to play golf while in office. Obama, who chose golf as his outlet from the glass cage that is the presidency, had plenty of weekends and vacations to play golf in the eight years he was Commander-in-Chief.