Life Goes On when Bob Goes Home!

As i mentioned in my last posting Bob Duncan headed home to Bend, Oregon. on Tuesday and David and I headed south of the border to do a golf school at Sunshine Golf Club and to do a Corporate Day at Victoria Golf Club.

                                                    2nd green at Sunshine Golf Course

The trip to Melbourne was a huge success. The opportunity for David and I to do golf schools with our old mate Bryan Ferguson in Melbourne is something we have been all trying to put together for quite a while, so for it to finally come together was great. Our day at Sunshine Golf Club was fantastic. This was my first time at this new facility and boy what a great place. Undercover driving range, chipping and putting green as well as a very nice 18 hole golf course. Head Professional at the club, Geoff Ross is very proud of his new facility and after being there i am not surprised. (The City views are unbelievable). Geoff was also the new inductee into the Absolute Golf schools program and he took to it like a duck to water (which we knew he would). He is an exact match to the Absolute Golf Philosophy, which is to making the game easier. A trend we all agree is not the normal in our industry. After a two hour session on the range we had a beautiful sit down lunch in the club and then out to the course for the last three hours. We saw a lot of improvement, some great golf and lots of happy golfers.

1st hole at Victoria Golf Club

Our corporate day at Victoria Golf Club also went very well. We were set up on the 1st tee with our video analysis gear taking video of the golfers as they teed off. Victoria G.C. is a great course and will be the host of the Australian Masters next week and they really had the course in terrific condition. We had about 60 players go through in the period of about 5 hours and there was lots of laughs and good humour. (just how we like to see our golf played).

                  David hard at work videoing a golfers swing at the Deloites Golf Day

The best news about our trip to Melbourne was the weather was clear (a little windy) and dry, while it was hosing rain in Sydney. For a couple of days it certainly was the place to be and we had a good time while we were at it.

And guess what. We have to go back next we as we have another corporate day booked at Huntingdale Golf Club on the 5th and at least another school booked on the 6th and 7th.

Bobs on his way home!

It is Tuesday 22nd November, we have just finished our weekend school at Wisemans Ferry (boy what a scorcher). Dave and I have left for Melbourne and Bob Duncan is down at Sydeny Airport waiting for his flight home.

Bob has been out here since the 26th of October in which time we have spent countless hours teaching, talking business strategies, playing golf and generally solving the problems of the planet. Bobs GPS program is moving ahead leaps and bounds, he has really taken it to the next level since we saw him last March and it was a pleasure doing some more work on it with him during this recent visit.

The schools were a relative success. We have never run 5 schools in a month before so to get decent numbers for all 5 was pleasing. The opportunity to hone our skills and present the GPS program to our regular clients was as usual a very enjoyable thing to do. I would like to thank all of our attendees for coming to the schools from some of the long term pupils both David and I have to some brand new golfers who have never been on-course before, even one pupil in particular who made it to three of the sessions (you know who you are). The beauty of all our programs (but Bobs in particular) is that it is a lesson on golf, so it dosen't matter how good you are there is something to learn.

Over his nearly four weeks in the country Bob worked with over 60 of David and my pupils all of whom I know got a great deal of information from his wise and insightful observations.

Bob is going home to do some more work on the program and get ready for his return in late March for our annual trip to Barnbougle Dunes where he is a guest coach and gets to sample the finest Golf, Food and scenery that Tasmania has to offer. He can't wait and either can we. This year we are taking 5 pro's David, Scott Davis, Bob Duncan, Paul Buchanan and myself which allows us to increase the numbers to 15 attendees ( still allowing us a 3 - 1 ratio for pupils to pro's)

Over the next few weeks you will start to see some marketing on this trip which without any advertising already has 8 people confirmed to go. If you want any more information go to http://www.absolutegolf.com.au/ otherwise i will talk to you soon.

See you on the course.
Jeff Mansfield  

Been busy with Bob.

Its Friday the 11th of November and Bob Duncan the golfecoach has been out here for a little over two weeks now. We have had 3 schools. Friday the 4th and 11th and Sunday the 6th and we have two to go Sunday the 13th and next weekends weekend at Wisemans. But the schools have been only a part of the trip with plenty of other teaching, coaching and brainstorming sessions being par for the course. Over  this short time we have had three sessions with my kids at Wallacia (I am sure their parents would like them to be mine some days) a full day with Tim Frazer at Woolongong while the NSWPGA was on and three or four on-course sessions with both David and my pupils littered through the mix. All the pupils have been getting a great deal out of the sessions and Bob and I are learning a little off each other as well.

Bobs relationship with Absolute Golf is one that is blossoming nicely as there are some real synergies between the directions of our businesses (not to mention the types of things we do)  and this trip has allowed us to look at how we can explore these similarities so that everyome can benefit from them, including you our pupils. Things like regular golf schools, on-line teaching forums, golf trips and just all round good advice is just a start of where we believe our future lies.

Bob has another week with us (and boy have i got him hoping) with a round of golf with my good friend Lee Unwin at St Michaels Golf Club, a fitting day at Camden valley on Tuesday morning and the other half of the day with Tim working on his putting, Thursday we have golf in the morning and the final session with the kids at Wallacia on Thursday evening and golf with David, Stephan, Michael, Scott and myself at Twin Creeks on Friday not to mention our final days at Wisemans Ferry on Saturday and Sunday Morning. He will need to go home for a holiday.

I will drop you guys a note next week to let you know how it is all going and keep you abreast of any further developements.

See you on the course.
Jeff Mansfield