Bring it ON! We are just getting warmed up!!!

St Francis Links is on Facebook! This week, I posted the following…

St Francis Links
Saturday - 100 golfers and then, a Greek (plate-breaking) wedding; Sunday - Church services for 130, golf for 70 juniors in the Selwyn Nathan Glacier Series event AND 70 "Jesters" for dinner after their Squash Champs in the village; enough, NO...a little Shoot-out tonight on the 17th for friends from Arabella and a record, 95 for Easy Monday dinner...Phew!

It’s called “Social Media” – Facebook, Twitter etc. I call it communication… getting the word out to nearly 500 unique followers and literally thousands who connect to them. When I post something on Facebook, it comes up on all of our “friends” homepages. Then their pages are read by their “friends”.

The way I see it, everything helps!

Each week, I tell the St Francis Links STORY, a story intended to make you drool for a trip here, or a story to impress upon you to use our services or to simply motivate you in some way, shape or form.

Become a fan or a friend to St Francis Links on Facebook and follow us and our great movements there – tell others! It’s all good!

Rory Sabbatini… love him or not, he put on a short game exhibition to win the Honda Classic at PGA National last week!

For period of time, Rory forgot where South Africa was. He has always had a lot to say about a little…for a period, before being selected to represent the RSA in the World Cup of Golf, he had little to say about the country of his birth. The World Cup selection and victory with Trevor Immelman in 2003, combined with some good play in the Nedbank Challenge may have changed him for the positive. He stirred up the tour when he became so frustrated with slow play that he finished the 17th hole and went to the tee at 18 before playing partner, Ben Crane, even finished the 17th! His wife wore a shirt on the course to emphasize his point. I would classify Rory as a “grinder” on the course and as maybe as hard a worker as anyone. His STATS (statistics) from the Honda were amazing.

My point for including this in my letter this week… how much time do you dedicate to short game practice…any??? Imagine your score if you could produce his results – just once! READ… (from the Compleat Golfer)

Rory Sabbatini shot a course record equaling 64 in the second round of the Honda Classic and was eight shots better than anyone else in the field on a tough day for golf. His secret: a flawless short game.

For example he’s gotten up-and-down for par or better 17 of 20 times this week and he has 28 one-putts for the week.

Short game stats:

Type
Scrambling (up and down)
Proximity to hole (how close he got from off the green)
Sand saves
One-putt percentage
Putts per round
Putting inside 10 feet (amazing)
Total birdies
Par-3 scoring average
Bogey Average

Stat
85%
4 ft 8 inches
5/5
52 %
26.67
96%
13
2.92
1.33

New Scorecard for 2011
We have chosen another great Grant Leversha shot (of the 17th) to use as the outside of our new scorecard. Click here to have a look! Doesn’t it just make you want to book a game?

On a personal note:
Billy Freer, the man who brought me to South Africa 20 years ago, just turned a very young 60! (as my daughter says, "that is the new 40). Billy is South African, American NOW, by choice. He runs the number one tennis facility in America with 50 courts and more than 20 instructors under him. You’re still my IDLE, buddy. I hope I look as good as you when I get to be that old! (in 20 years or so).

Well enough for now…I’m off to practice my short game!

Regards,
Jeff