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During an interview in May with The Politico’s Mike Allen, President Bush confessed that he had suspended his golf hobby as the war in Iraq continues. “I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” Bush said.
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Phil Mickelson begs to differ. The two-time Masters winner hopped around Washington on Tuesday with Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings in order to emphasize the value of math and science in golf to students.
Mickelson told Yeas & Nays that golf helps him relieve stress and said he was sad to hear that Bush had suspended his golf game.
“I think, for me personally, some of the best times I have ever had to think and to get refreshed is when I go out and play golf in the evening by myself or with my dad or with my friends,” Mickelson said. “I don’t know if that is the same case with him, but I am sorry he had to suspend it. I know for me some of the best times for thinking, for relaxing, has been on the golf course.”
Mickelson told students that his caddie once wrote a message to his teacher during a math final: “If you give me at least a D, I will never use math again.” His caddie got his D and graduated, but Mickelson added that a few years back, “a nut comes running out on the golf course screaming, ‘You lied to me! You lied to me!’ ” Turns out it was that old teacher. “I thought he was yelling at me, but it turns out he was yelling at [his caddie] Bones as he was adding up the yardage. So you do actually need it in your everyday life.”
