Last weeks US Open at The Olympic Club in San Francisco was as exciting a golf tournament as I have seen for a very long time. What a challenging golf course with it's sloping fairways, small greens and typical Californian summer weather. Foggy. It was very interesting to watch this event. I don't know if i have seen as many mental errors as i saw last weekend (which is what a tough course does to even the best players). Our old friend Bob Duncan must have been shaking his head the amount of times players were trying to hit draws from fade lies and fades from draw lies and all this does is puts pressure on their long games which in turn puts pressure on their short games and hence the big scores. It is an amazing golf course with holes as short as 160 yards (145 meters) up to the longest hole in US Open history at 670 yards (over 600 meters). The course is in a very good golf area with the Olympic club having 45 holes, and nearby courses being Harding Park, host of US PGA Tour events and the Presidents Cup, The San Francisco Club another US Open Venue as well as other famous courses like Pasa Tiempo and many more. All of these courses are only minutes away from where we stay in San Fran on our annual trip as we have driven past the Olympic Club gates and visited Harding Park on previous visits. Congratulations to Wade Simpson, to post those two weekend scores while everyone else was back pedalling was a phenomenal effort and deserved of an Open Champion.
The new par three 8th at the Olympic Club
The End of An Era. Sydney Olympic Park Golf Range.
The Golf Range at Sydney Olympic Park is closing after ten years trade. The range was one of the busiest in the country and offered quality programs with a friendly atmosphere and it will be a real shame to see it go. I have been a regular part of the furniture for the past five years offering the club fitting services as the Head Club Fitter as well as coaching to the poor unfortunates who got to come and see me (just kidding) and it will be a shame to lose contact with all the wonderful people we have had contact with over the recent years. There are a few people i would like to thank after five years of working at this fun venue, firstly James Commerford and Chris Chilton for having the foresight to try and run a top class venue and providing activities and services that were not being offered in the Sydney area.
To all the coaches for entrusting me with your students and allowing me to fit them to help with their golf improvement. I am always very honoured that a professional allows their pupils to go freely to work with another professional even it is for a common goal, I hope i always deserved that trust.
My regular pupils, i have meet some terrific new friends working at the range which many of whom i may not get to see again as the distance may be too great. Thank you for you trust and your support and remember to let me know how you are going, good bad or ugly i would love to help.
All the range staff, for your efforts to make the range a happy place to work and for the best coffee in the Sydney Olympic Park Precinct and last but not least Scott Davis who as head professional at the range lead by example and left blood on the tee offering his students the best he could. Mate i look forward to working with you in the future in the Golf School business and doing the Golf Trips and I hope we can keep doing great work together.
Go to http://www.absolute/ golf to check out our US Trip information or any of our upcoming golf school dates. We would love to see you.
See you on the course.
Jeff Mansfield
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