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President Barack Obama is spending the holiday weekend working on his golf game in Southern California.

Obama arrived in the desert resort area of Palm Springs on Saturday morning after a short flight from San Francisco and went straight to the golf course on the grounds of the Sunnylands retreat in nearby Rancho Mirage.

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He played several rounds on the nine-hole course with Bobby Titcomb and Greg Orme, childhood friends from Hawaii who flew in to meet the president. Marty Nesbitt, one of Obama's friends from Chicago, rounded out the foursome, the White House said.

The president had no public events scheduled during his weekend getaway from the White House. He was expected to spend most of his daylight hours swinging golf clubs in the desert heat, as he has done on visits to the area in each of the past two years.

Obama departed Sunnylands after about five and a half hours and retired to the nearby home of interior designer Michael Smith, where Obama is staying during the weekend. Smith redecorated the Oval Office for Obama. Smith's partner, James Costos, is the U.S. ambassador to Spain.

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Saturday's visit was his fourth to the sprawling estate once owned by the late publishing tycoon Walter Annenberg since 2013, when Obama first visited after inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping there for two days of talks.

The timing of Obama's golf vacation couldn't have been better. He stepped off of Air Force One into 80-degree, blue-sky weather as the District of Columbia region endured a Valentine's Day blast of bitter cold air, powerful winds and snow.

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Obama enjoys Presidents Day weekend by golfing in California