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Putt, putt
Two-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson gave Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings a putting lesson Monday amid 200 teachers from around the country who had come to the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy in Fairfax for a week of training. (We wonder if he’d have made it on time had he not missed the cut at the British Open and had to play this weekend.)
Mickelson and his wife, Amy, founded the academy in 2005 to assist elementary school teachers in developing their teaching methods in math and science.
“Employers today need workers with ‘pocket-protector’ skills,” Spellings said.
It’s the latest of a number of visits to our area by Mickelson this year. Earlier this month, he played in the inaugural AT&T National at Congressional Country Club (he missed the cut there, too, thanks to an injured wrist). And in May, again at Congressional, he conducted a clinic for employees of Bearing Point, one of his sponsors.
