Annette Thompson, to the core, is an educator. The nuanced difference between teacher and educator appears when the 81-year-old North Carolina native talks about how she does her job.
“Annette always has a story about everything she is going to talk about,” said Lynn Marriott, a highly respected golf instructor and co-founder of Vision54 Golf Academy with Pia Nilsson. “She is the classic educator through metaphor.”
Marriott, who played college golf for Thompson at Penn State, remembers how caring the coach’s instruction was…