That’s a testament to both our reputation for providing high quality design and construction services and the trust that the Middle East District has built with our allied partners year after year,” said Spellmon. “It’s important to note that our Middle East District mission partners are the ones paying for these projects, so they’ve got a choice on who they want to design and build them. allies in the region on engineering, design and construction projects ranging from early road systems and airports to modern day state-of-the-art defense infrastructure.Ĭurrently most of this work is done through foreign military financing, where partner nations like Qatar and Jordan fund the oversight of construction on some of their defense infrastructure. Through TAM, the Army Corps of Engineers has had a permanent presence in the Middle East for more than 70 years, partnering with U.S. Spellmon said that although the visits to the project sites were eye-opening, it was the relationships District personnel had cultivated with their partners overseas that were most impressive. Spellmon visited missile defense and aircraft infrastructure projects in Qatar as well as projects USACE is undertaking for the Jordanian Air Force. allies currently working with USACE’s Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) on defense infrastructure projects. Scott Spellmon recently had a hand in building those bridges while visiting the Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Qatar – two long-standing U.S. allies to improve their defense and engineering capabilities. This is true in local communities when helping people recover from natural disasters and it’s true around the world when partnering with U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers, the figurative bridges you build are often just as important at the literal ones. It makes me optimistic that I still made the cut playing as poorly as I did, and I think if I can get it turned around, I can make a run.When you work for the U.S. “The first two days I’ve played terrible. “I came in here very optimistic,” Mickelson said. Phil Mickelson hands a club to his caddie during the PGA Championship. However, Friday marked the 100th time Mickelson has made the cut in a major, and his 27th at the PGA Championship, which ties him with Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd for the most in tournament history. Through two rounds, he had hit a mere 8 of 28 fairways through 36 holes, which tied for 133rd in the field. He was at 3-over in the first round at the PGA Championship and things didn’t get much better. Mickelson so far hasn’t played up to his Masters standards where he tied for second in April. I guess in January they changed that to where you just only get line-of-sight.” “I didn’t know that they changed the rule this year, whereby you normally could take the point in line and then you have that two-club-length semicircle. “I ended up hitting it in the hazard and took line-of-sight and came back,” Mickelson continued. Mickelson was already 5-over after 36 holes, right on the cut line.

Phil Mickelson struggles but makes cut: ‘I played terrible’ “The guy came over and saved me a penalty because I had dropped it in the ruling under last year and didn’t realize it had been changed, and he came and saved me a stroke, so I was very appreciative,” Mickelson said after his round. Phil Mickelson celebrates after a birdie on the fifth hole during the second round of the PGA Championship. The second rules official agreed with the first and Mickelson thanked the first for preventing him from making a mistake. Subsequently, he planned to give himself two club lengths of relief and when asking playing partner Rickie Fowler how it looked, Fowler gave a thumbs up that he was in the clear.Ī rules official disagreed, making his way over to Mickelson to tell him that it was an incorrect drop and he would have resulted in a 1-stroke penalty if he played his ball from the wrong position.Īt first, he argued against the rules official and asked for a second opinion. On the sixth hole, Mickelson, 52, hit his tee shot into the water along the right side of the fairway and afterwards he dropped a ball where he believed the original shot had entered the water. Phil Mickelson’s PGA Championship was saved by a rules official during the second round at Oak Hill Country Club on Friday.

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