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Jeff Coston and Shane Prante won the Wine Valley Ping Pro-Pro Championship in a 2-hole playoff. With winds gusting and cool temperatures Coston/Prante shot 68-63 to earn the playoff opportunity.

“Shane and I enjoy Wine Valley tremendously and it looks like he is stuck with me next year!”

Jeff Coston has been named 2017 Pacific Northwest PGA Teacher of the Year. This award recognizes the PGA Professional who is an outstanding teacher among the ranks of PGA membership.

“I would like to thank Semiahmoo members, staff, Brett Eaton and most of all my students/friends. I am also forever grateful for the training, influence, insight and accountability of coaches Mike Bender, Mike Adams, Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer. They are going to make a teacher out of me yet. Honestly, coaching, teaching and mentoring is not what I do, it is who I am.”

Read more“Jeff Coston Named 2017 Pacific Northwest PGA Teacher of the Year.”

Jeff Coston interviews PGA Tour Player Tom Lehman

Q1) Describe what happened in you to go from mini-tour player to British Open Champion and PGA Tour Player of the Year!

Tom: The only thing that changed from the mini tour days to the successful pgatour days was belief. Once I truly believed that I was capable and could do it, then the results became what I thought they could be.

Q2) What makes you an amazing ball striker?

Tom: I hit the center of the club face nearly every time that I swing a club, which I believe is the most important part of hitting good golf shots. Combine that with a shallow approach and very little club face rotation and you get the ability to control trajectory and distance. The repeatability of that combination of things, along with a few others, creates a situation where I can trust my swing under all circumstances.

Q3) Give us 3 qualities of a champion golfer.

Tom: There are more than three qualities that all champions golfers share in common, but I believe the three most significant are confidence, perseverance and commitment.

Q4) You have been a Ryder Cup Player, Captain (in my mind a super captain) and this year assisting Davis Love in this year’s Ryder Cup. What needs to take place for the U.S. Team to play to their potential?

Tom: The US Team will play to their potential if they simply commit to be themselves and play like they normally play. The more we worry about how a mistake affects others on the team, the more pressure we apply to ourselves. We simply need to do our job, which is to execute the way we normally execute. We don’t need to push to be more than we are.

Q5) Give us 3 things you would like people to know about you as a man.

Tom: I would like for people to know that I make more than my share of mistakes. I would like for them to know that I live and breath and function because of Gods grace and mercy on me. I would for them to know that I love them.

Q6) You have know Jeff Coston for over 35 years; give us a few Coston insights.

Tom: Jeff Coston is a natural leader. He is introspective as well as socially outgoing. He deeply loves his wife and kids. He cares about the world around him and has spent his life making a difference. He is gifted at what he does and in the things he pursues and constantly strives to become more excellent. He loves God with all of his heart, mind and soul and loves his neighbors as himself. When his time on earth is over, he will hear God say, “well done thy good and faithful servant.”

Coston shot rounds of 62-70-67 to win the Senior Washington Open, held May 31 – June 2 at The Cedars at Dungeness in Sequim, WA.

Jeff Coston of Jeff Coston Golf Academy at Semiahmoo Resort will join Tom Lehman, Bernhard Langer, Kenny Perry, John Daley, Tom Watson, Colin Montgumery and other greats for this year’s Senior PGA Championship. The event will be held at Harbor Shores Golf Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan May 26-29. This is Coston’s 11th Senior PGA Championship. Jeff has been the low Club Professional in this event twice.