President Barack Obama’s trip to play golf in Florida three years ago cost close to $4 million of American tax payers money, recent filings from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) have showed.

The GAO filings, first published by the Washington Times, showed that the 2013 trip, which lasted four days, came at a combined cost of $3.6 million [14 million Ghana Cedis] to the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.

Times’ report said the chunk of the cost came from 22 total flight legs flown by six military transport planes involving 14 different commercial airports.

This was joined by the costs associated with the actual operation of Air Force One, the official airplane of the United States Presidency, which is approximately $200,000 per hour of flight.

The breakout of the total cost came up to $2.8 million for Defense and $767,000 for Homeland Security.

Obama played with golf legend Tiger Woods – who lives in Florida – during the high profile trip.