Barclays Classic Golf Academy

[Yoda]

Barclays Bank, PLC and Lynn Blake Golf, LLC are pleased to announce the Barclays Classic Golf Academy to be conducted at the PGA TOUR's Barclays Classic, June 5-11, 2006, in Westchester County, New York www.barclaysclassic.com.

The Academy facility will be specially constructed contiguous to the Barclays Hospitality Pavilion overlooking the 18th Green of the famed West Course at the Westchester Country Club. It will operate from 8 a.m to close of play Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to close of play Saturday and Sunday. The Academy will feature individual and group instruction, clubfitting and clinics exclusively for Barclays private clients.

Instructors will be Lynn Blake, GSED, Ted Fort, GSEB, PGA and Jeff Hull, GSEM, PGA. Golf clubs and clubfitting will be provided by Henry-Griffitts, Inc., a leader in custom-fit golf clubs since 1983 www.henrygriffitts.com. Launch monitors will be provided by About Golf, Inc., the world leader in indoor golf technology since 1988 www.aboutgolf.com.

[12 piece bucket]

Man this is great!!!! Congrats guys!!! I know Mr. K would be proud of you boys!!!

The train is pullin' outta the station . . .

[YodasLuke]

Lynn and I have been looking forward to the announcement. We can hardly wait!

[psheehan]

Figures.... now that I'm out of there something great like this happens...lol... congratulations. I'm going to tell all my friends still on wall street to get tickets and go....

[Daryl]

Good luck everyone. Four days of golf talk and instruction. I'm sure you'll have great success and enjoy it very much at the same time.

[Daryl]

Yoda,

What will be your approach to the 1,000’s of people who come to learn from you at the Barclays?

I think that walking up the isle dressed in Vestment and Hat holding the Little Yellow Book is fine for us, your congregation, (by the way, I think Gold and Red are your colors) but the general golfing public may not get the humor.

How do you explain to these 1,000’s that a nearly forty year old out of print book holds the “Secret to Golf”? After all, it does.

I would focus on drills. The Tree Imperatives. Hands-on for the audience. Set up some PVC pipes a foot above the floor, with a piece of tape wrapped around at the impact position. See if they can get there with a flat left wrist and take the hands, Clubshaft and Clubhead into impact. Explain the Three Dimensional Impact, Pivot lag. I would bring all of the toys. They’ll want to play with the launch monitor.

Remember, they’re there to have fun.

If all else fails, does Ted play the Organ? Gregorian Chants are nice. Ted can demonstrate the "X Pattern" Basic Putting Stroke.

Seriously. Good luck and have a great time.