President taking time with good shots on the green (7)
I believe the answer is:
putting
'shots on the green' is the definition.
(putting is a type of golf shot)
'president taking time with good' is the wordplay.
'president' becomes 'putin' (Russian president Vladimir Putin).
'taking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'putin' going around 't' is 'puttin'.
'puttin'+'g'='PUTTING'
(Other definitions for putting that I've seen before include "Golfing on the green" , "Expressing" , "what follows a successful pitch" .)