text: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower drives down the fairway at Turnberry in Scotland in 1959. Eisenhower, a friend of Palmer&#39;s, was a golfing fanatic who &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/west-wing/oval-office-history.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;destroyed the floor of the White House&#39;s Oval Office with his golf spikes.