Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and your golf is going well.
What a success the Presidents Cup was. I couldn’t believe how serious the US team was in representing their country. And Freddy Couples; what a great captain and asset to the team he was.
Interesting to hear Mr. Bruce Green, friend, wonderful supporter of Australian Golf and Royal Melbourne head Golf professional for over 30 years state that he was surprised to see Freddy and his team walking the course many times – learning about the nuances and subtleties of the wonderful layout at RM, one of the world’s great courses.
As an aside I was driving into RM about 10 years ago and Bruce was coming the other way, I was parked outside the few pieces of antique machinery on display at the entrance, a few specimens used by Dr Alister MacKenzie team when commenced building this masterpiece, where Bruce commented that this was a special plot of land developed by god for the great Doctor to spin his magic.
And Boy did this great Golf Course not did not disappoint, while not all that long the, the cement hard greens made it very difficult indeed and throw in the predictable unpredictable Melbourne weather and what a test of golf it became. I am sure the International team wished they were as diligent in their preparation as the US team was!
Any how the event was a success, however I was a little perplexed by the selection of the International team but as we all know hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Well done again to the Us Team and Freddy Couples all great ambassadors for the game.
Good Golfing & Stay in the Zone
John Lyons
BTW, Bruce Green is a regular contributor to our Golf show – GolfZone and many of his lessons are uploaded to our web site, simply click the GolfZone TV tab on the web site.





