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.
Last week we had an amazing successful once in a lifetime EVENT at Semiahmoo! We had 10 Champion Tour Players up for a SPECIAL Pro-Am. Rocco Mediate, Mark Calcavecchia, David Frost, Olin Brown, Joey Sindelar and more! Great pro’s! 40 am’s. Dinner, stay at the amazing Semiahmoo Resort. Over $27,000 to the St. Joseph Cancer Center. Everyone had a fantastic two days! The pros want to come back next year!
The Boeing Classic just finished yesterday. The Boeing has always been a highlight tourney for me. One year I skipped the PGA Championship to play Boeing. I love Seattle and the folks in the Great Northwest!
I’ve made and deepened so many friendships with the players while playing The Champions Tour. That would be one of the highlights of 2015.
Billy Andrade won this year. We have played several rounds together this year. He is down to earth and a sports lover. I remember playing basketball together while on the regular Tour. He can play! Really good guys out there. Life long friends.
I’m back teaching at my academy the next month and really all year. Give me a call and we will spend some Extraordinary time on your golf game.
Coston out.
Just finished The Shaw Classic in Calgary. 72-67-76. Ouch. I played the second round with Scott Hoch and Ian Woosnam. Hoch is very funny. He is candid with little if any filter. He has 168 top ten finishes on the PGA Tour. That is how he earned the nickname as “the ATM”; he was a cash machine. Woosnam was quite friendly. They both had serious opinions about the latest inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame. I will leave it at that. I shot 67 that round. Perhaps I could play with them every day.
I have played in two more Champion Tour events since our last article. Tucson and Gulfport, Mississippi. Great people, great weather, great golf! In Tucson I shot 71-73-73 and Mississippi 73-73-73. Wow 73 seemed to be the number! I wish it was 67. I’d even take 69. Believe it or not, there is not much difference on tour between those numbers. A pitch here, a made 6 footer there can create a mindset or momentum that gets you off to the races. Patience and responding well to adversity again have been the pill I am swallowing. Golf sometimes shadows life.
Tucson, Arizona is a beautiful place. The mountains that surround the city are breath taking. The Tucson National golf course is wonderful also. I stayed with some friends of mine who are members at Semiahmoo which made the week all the more enjoyable. Thanks Donald and Susan!
I flew from Tucson to Gulfport, Mississippi. Definitely the South, and I love it. The people are so nice and I love that accent! Many fun and interesting happenings in Mississippi. The host hotel is a casino on the Gulf thus Gulfport, Mississippi. I’ve never pulled a slot machine or done anything in a casino in my life! Truly. Ask my friends. So I’m a rookie in a casino. Rodger Chapman from England and I were on the plane together. He said he had a car to the hotel and I should hop in with him. A serious Limo.
We go to the hotel/casino to VIP check in. Both our rooms are comped, overlooking the Gulf. Sweet. I still have not played a game in a casino. Good food though.
I went to the golf course the next day. The course is called Fallen Oak. A serious wonderful golf course. By the way Steve Winn owns the hotel and golf course. Anyway, I went to the workout trailer to stay young from the neck down, because I’m shaving my Grandpa when I look in the mirror. That is where I met Angel Jimiez for the first time. We worked out daily and were showing each other exercises we had learned over the years.
Nice guy and he works out hard. I was impressed!
Saturday after the round I was hitting shots on the range and Lee Jansen walk up. Lee and I both work with Mike Bender on our games. Lee won in Naples this year and has won two U.S. Opens. He said “Jeff, you hit it as well and are in as good shape as anyone out here. Just get comfortable and know you can do it!! And then walked away.
Tom Lehman is a good friend of mine for many years. He and Melissa use to babysit my children. Diane and I stayed with them in Phoenix earlier this year. We went to dinner Saturday night with his partner in golf course design. A gentleman named Chris Banks out of Portland. A smart man. I learned much about courses that night. Anyway, I did not know dinner was at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. First time i’d been there. Their budget is at a different level than mine. Great steak, most expensive dinner of my life. I’d better get off 73 to eat there again. Tom finished 2nd in Gulfport. I guess he is going back to see Ruth again soon.
i’m home teaching the next two weeks. I will be pitching, putting, hitting wedges and bunker shots. i will be hitting many drives and setting my mind on low scores. One more thing for all of us; let’s continue to have fun and enjoy each step on the golf course. That will help produce low scores.
Jeff Coston a 20 Pacific Northwest PGA Player of the Year. He is a member of the Pacific Northwest PGA Hall of Fame. He is now a Champion Tour Member. Jeff can be reached for appointment by calling the amazing Semiahmoo Resort at 360-201-4590.
I’m on the airplane flying from Calgary to Quebec City. I feel like I’m on “Tour” again.
I finished playing the Shaw Charity Classic yesterday. I shot 69-71-64 and finished tie 27. Yesterday I played with Olin Brown and Jeff Sluman; two guys I’ve known for many years. Good guys! They both said I’m getting better with age. Nice.
I made a nice 5 footer down hill on the last hole and a 20 footer on 17 for an extra few dollars. That felt nice. I’m a better player and teacher for being out here. I’m grateful for this opportunity. I’m also grateful for being able to play and teach golf my entire life…… I’m grateful for my academy at Semiahmoo and everyone’s support.
I have a wonderful life!
I had dinner with Tom Lehman again this week. He is still just a regular guy with much class. Especially since he bought dinner.
A fun thing happened; Bobby Clampett told the tournament director I was a wonderful teacher so they asked me to give a lesson to a VIP and filmed it! I received much positive feedback. Many folks have been to Semiahmoo and said they need to comeback. I agreed.
I have one more tournament and then home to my other job.
See everyone in a week.
Coston out
P.S. I miss my family. A lot !!
Jeff shot 67 and won the Open qualifier by two shots at Canterwood in Gig Harbor. Coston will tee it up with the best seniors in the world at Oak Tree National in Edmond, Oaklahoma July 10-13. This is Costons 4th Senior U.S. Open and the 18th Major Championship of his career.
Coston wins the Hawaii Senior State Open edging Scott Simpson by one shot. 67-69-72 at Mauna Lani Resort on the big island of Hawaii.
Semiahmoo golf instructor Jeff Coston came from a shot back to force a playoff and then beat Redmond’s Tom Sovay on the second hole of a playoff to claim the Pacific Northwest Section Senior PGA Championship for the seventh time in eight years on Friday, Sept. 6, at the RMG Club at Oakbrook in Lakewood.
“I’ve won this thing seven times now,” said Coston, who reclaimed the top spot after missing in 2012. “I guess that must mean that I’m getting old. … I’m feeling like a young man, though. I’ve done 500 pushups so far today, and I’ve just got to beat the traffic home so I can do another 500.”
The pushups seemed to help, as Coston rallied from a stroke back entering the final round to tie Sovay by shooting a second-round 68, following his first-round 69.
“The weather was crazy and rainy today, but the course held water well,” Coston said. “I was told I was leading going into the last hole, and I birdied the last hole, but it turned out they had the scoreboard wrong. It ended up needing a birdie to tie.”
Both he and Sovay birdied the first playoff hole, but Sovay missed a short putt that would have tied Coston on the second.
Coston already had an exemption to the Southworth Senior PGA National Championship Oct. 10-13 at Creighton Farms and River Creek Club in Virginia. Shortly before that tournament, he’ll play in the PGA section championship in Richland.
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