Some might call it unemployed, but this guy had waited a long time to become a member of Mid-Pacific Country Club. He loved the course and badly wanted to impress.

When he applied in December, under “Present Occupation & Position,” Barack Obama wrote “Former President of the United States.”

Guess who became a member at Mid-Pac last month?

“He asked not to make a big thing of it,” recalled Vincent Yim, who has been at MPCC 20-plus years. “Also, he did not want any preferential treatment except to accommodate his much smaller security squad while on the course and in public.

“About three years ago, when he told us he wanted to become a member here, most of us said ‘Yeah, sure.’ Well, he came through and most of us think it’s cool.”

Obama has history at the Lanikai club. The Punahou alum played it pretty much every time he came home for the holidays during his two terms as president.

He has told members he is planning to buy or build a home on the Windward side, which makes Mid-Pac a no-brainer. The course is a unique blend of great golf and island serenity, with a setting to die for and a layout that gives you just about everything the game has got.

Beyond that, Obama can lay low in Lanikai while working on a game that has clearly grabbed him by the throat and has no intention of letting go.

After a year of “free time,” he has apparently morphed from an athlete playing golf and arriving with a huge entourage, to a golfer good enough to trash talk straight through what is now only a five-hour round with a much smaller following.

That’s what actor Anthony Anderson said Obama did while collecting more than $1,500 from the “Black-ish” star, Olympian Michael Phelps and the NBA’s Chris Paul in a game last summer.

He also said the former POTUS might not hit it far, but “he’s straight as an arrow.” Mid-Pacific Director of Golf Mark Sousa thinks he can fix the “far” part.

“He has to get his lower body working better,” says Sousa, who has had lots of time to study Obama’s swing. “He doesn’t use his legs as much as he should.”

When President Obama played MPCC during all those holiday vacations, he would ask for tee time availability in October, never confirming the actual December date until a day prior. He teed off at 1 p.m. and when his group got to the 15th hole, it would usually be dark.

He always showed up with something far beyond a foursome.

President Obama would arrive in a parade of six SUVs. Workers and volunteers came early to set up 35 golf carts for his group, groups in front and behind him, and all the Secret Service patrolling the course.

There would also be dogs sniffing and media watching. Now Obama, expected home again next month, comes in a mere three SUVs, with his playing partners and a handful of Secret Service agents.

“You could almost miss him as he walks by,” Yim says.

The 44th president “loves to play first thing in the morning,” Sousa says. “The last time he was here at 6:30 a.m. and balls were in the air at 7.”

Obama has used the locker and — surprise! — fitness rooms, but Sousa is “pretty sure he has never been in the clubhouse.” Maybe it will come with time — and MPCC’s laid-back ambience.

“He is so gracious when he comes up,” Sousa says. “You talk to him and he talks to you. The members like that. They accommodate him. It’s fantastic. He comes out and plays and has fun.”

Members do appear to appreciate all Obama brings to their golf club.

“The members should feel honored that he has chosen our club,” says 30-year member Bobbie Lou Schneider, who often hosts the Obamas at her Buzz’s Original Steak House in Lanikai, which opened a year after Obama was born. “He’s a pretty good golfer, very friendly and accommodating. Everyone is still excited to see him on the course.”

It sounds as if they would like to see him more, on the course and in the clubhouse.

“I think the reason Obama became a member so soon after his term is that the members at Mid-Pac treat him as just another member and respect his privacy,” Yim says. “I am sure he has a busy worldwide schedule and will not be at the club as often as he would like. As time goes on, his notoriety and demand will wear off and I am sure we will see him more often on the course and in the clubhouse.”

Steve Holmberg will become MPCC’s president in July. As vice president, he heard Obama was interested in membership and offered to sponsor him.

“The honor of having a past president of the United States become a member of our club is, to say the least, a very big event for our club and its members,” Holmberg says. “He still has a small contingent of security when he comes to golf, but for the most part he acts like any of our members and is conscious of the fact that he does not want to disrupt the game for others.”

That was impossible before. The website obamagolfcounter.com claimed Obama played 306 rounds of golf in his eight years as president — nine at Mid-Pacific.

That makes him an “avid golfer” by National Golf Foundation numbers, playing nearly twice as often as the national average, but much less than the “average avid golfer” (56 times annually).

And, much less than Woodrow Wilson (1,200 rounds during his term) or Dwight Eisenhower (800). Now, there is also trumpgolflist.com to count the 45th President’s golf rounds. Donald Trump played 93 times last year — nearly all on his own courses and never at Mid-Pacific Country Club.

“There is a buzz that goes on when Mr. Obama is at the club,” Holmberg says. “People are eager to see him on the course as well as excited about the possibility of meeting him. He appears to be a really down-to-earth guy who is very open and friendly to all of the members that have met him.”

And those to come because, as Golf Digest wrote to Obama last month, “We expect you to really ramp it up now that you’ve gotten rid of your day job.”