Michelle Wie and Solheim Teammates Visit White House

There are so many great perks to being a great golfer. Add a visit to the Oval Office as a once in a lifetime experience for Michelle Wie and the members of the victorious 2009 Solheim Cup.

The ladies spent a whirlwind 36 hours in our nation’s capitol, highlighted by a visit to the White House to meet the President and to give him a gift.

For Michelle Wie, it was her first visit to Washington D.C. and the first President she has met that went to the same high school! Yep. Both Michelle and Barack Obama graduated from Punahou School in Honolulu, a private, college preparatory school — Obama in 1979 and Wie in 2007. Talk about having something in common!

Sources say that when they met in the Oval Office, the two exchanged shakas – a common Hawaiian hand greeting. She then promptly draped a lei, a Hawaiian garland, around Obama’s neck.

The team toured the White House as well as the Lincoln Memorial while in Washington.