President Obama enjoys 'date night' with Michelle as first couple holiday without daughters in Martha's Vineyard

Teeing off: President Obama has played four rounds of golf since landing on Martha's Vineyard on Saturday, rotating golf crews each day (pictured here on Wednesday)President Obama has been splitting his time between rounds of golf and date night dinners with Michelle as they spend their annual summer vacation in Martha’s Vineyard while their daughters are away at summer camp.

This is the fourth time the Obamas have spent a week on the Massachusetts island during his presidency, but instead of making trips to the bookstore with the girls, he has been taking Michelle out to an array of the island’s nicest restaurants.
Obama spent Saturday night indoors after arriving by helicopter from the Coast Guard station on nearby Cape Cod with Michelle and the family dog.

Pound it, partner: World Bank President Jim Kim was one of the foursome playing on Wednesday

The group: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts also joined Obama and Kim on Wednesday at the Vineyard Golf Club

Every day since, his motorcade has driven him from the $7million rental home they are staying in the Chilmark neighborhood on the island's western tip to the eastern towns of Edgartown, Oak Bluffs or Vineyard Haven and back for his daily rounds of golf.
On Sunday, the playground of choice was Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs with White House aides Marvin Nicholson and Sam Kass, a chef, and Robert Wolf, a Wall Street consultant and Obama campaign fundraiser.
Wolf sits on Obama's export council; he previously served on the president's jobs council and economic recovery advisory board.
Sunday night had the president and first lady dining out at Sweet Life Cafe in Oak Bluffs, a contemporary French-American restaurant they've eaten at on previous vacations here.

Shop talk: The more than four hours spent on the golf course have left the men with plenty of time to talk

Keeping the results a secret: The President has not revealed his score for any of the rounds

There were back-to-back days of hours-long golf outings, including a round in the rain Monday at Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown with Washington power broker Vernon Jordan, former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Allison Davis, another Obama associate from Chicago.
They attended a cocktail party Monday at the home of campaign adviser Broderick Johnson and his wife, NPR journalist Michele Norris.
Obama spent most of Tuesday in Oak Bluffs. He picked up a to-go meal of fried oysters, shrimp, onion rings and french fries from Nancy's Restaurant and took it to the nearby rental home of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who also vacations on Martha's Vineyard.
Mrs. Obama, who leads a nationwide effort to encourage everyone, though mostly kids, to eat better did not join the president for Tuesday's fried-food lunch.
The President burned off those greasy calories by playing basketball at an Oak Bluffs school with Nicholson, Kass and Eric Whitaker, the president's close buddy from Chicago. 

Indulging: On Tuesday, Obama picked up a to-go meal of fried oysters, shrimp, onion rings and french fries from Nancy's Restaurant

On guard: The Secret Service kept watch while the President placed a take out order at Nancy's

Tuesday evening he picked up Mrs Obama and headed for a return visit to the Beach Plum Inn, voted the island's most romantic getaway by Martha's Vineyard magazine. The restaurant is also known for its sunset views.
Obama returned to the Edgartown club Wednesday to play with Kirk, World Bank President Jim Kim and Comcast executive Brian Roberts.
Afterward, he and the first lady headed to Roberts' waterfront home in Vineyard Haven, spending nearly two hours there before they went to the contemporary American State Road Restaurant for dinner.
Aside from the repeated date nights, another sign of the girls' absence is that Obama has yet to drop by the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven where he typically takes Sasha and Malia on their  first full day of vacation to pick up summer reading.

Return visitors: The Obamas dined at the Sweet Life Cafe on Sunday (left) like they had on previous visits, and State Road restaurant on Monday (right)

Romantic: The Beach Plum Inn, where the first couple dined on Tuesday, is said to have one of the best views on Martha's Vineyard

That his daughters are not here is another reminder of the years that have passed since their father became president.
They are older now - Malia is 15 and Sasha is 12 - and increasingly leading lives more independent of their parents and with schedules as hectic as their mom's and dad's, their parents have said.
Both are into sports: Malia plays tennis and runs track, while Sasha plays basketball. She sings and dances, too.
White House officials say only that the girls will reunite with their parents later in the week, without giving a specific date.
'When they get here, we'll let you know,' spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday.