Alan Blinder
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Ronald Reagan had gone to Augusta National Golf Club in 1983 for a break: He would stay in a cottage formerly favored by Dwight D. Eisenhower and play the course renowned as the home of the Masters Tournament.
Then a man rammed a pickup truck through a gate and headed toward the pro shop, where he took hostages and demanded to talk to Reagan.
The episode concluded after about two hours, with the president and the hostages unhurt. But Reagan decided that his time as the nation’s golfer in chief was largely done.
“Playing golf is not worth the...
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