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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.

Following an airport welcome from Mayor Steve Pougnet, Obama went straight to the golf course on the grounds of the Sunnylands retreat in nearby Rancho Mirage.

He was playing 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 is becoming a regular at Sunnylands.

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

The timing of Obama's golf vacation couldn't have been better. Obama 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.

Obama traveled to Southern California without his wife, Michelle, or their daughters, Malia and Sasha.

At the end of Saturday's weekly address, Obama wished his wife a happy Valentine's Day, and she tweeted a similar message to him later in the day. There was no word from the White House on how the first lady was spending the weekend.

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