Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U. S. banker in the 1930s).