George Kirsch, author of Golf in America, wrote a letter to the New York Times Book Review to correct the record on Woodrow Wilson’s golf routine:

Actually, after the first few years of his presidency he played golf for a few hours on many weekday mornings, returning to the White House around 11 a.m. He doggedly kept to his golf routine during the confrontation with Germany that led to the American entry into World War I. Wilson even played an early morning round on Saturday, March 31, 1917 — the day he drafted the message in which he asked Congress to declare war on Germany.