Eighteen members of Seaside's Friendship Baptist Church took part in a clinic presented by the San Jose State University golf team and head coach John Kennaday at Poppy Hills. Kennaday led the instruction on the back side of Poppy Hills driving range.
Team members helping with instruction included Northern California natives
Justin Estrada (Yuba City), Drew Nottenkamper (Pacific Grove), Daniel Semmler
(Belmont), Miguel Camitoc (Hayward) and Peter Gibbs (Granite Bay). There were
three 30-minute stations for instruction: full swing, chipping, bunker, with the
bunker station representing the first time students had ever hit out of a
bunker.
The last 30 minutes were spent bringing it all together – with life skills such
as perseverance and staying in school and working toward goals emphasized. Coach
Kennaday explained that the golf team members all started at the same point as
the clinic participants, but they worked hard to get where they are so they
could play for fun and go to school on scholarship. Team members also
demonstrated different golf shots…hitting shots of varying height with the same
club, hitting a draw vs. hitting a cut and many more.
The kids all received a SJSU logo ball at the conclusion of the event which
was the fifth such clinic presented by the Foundation in 2009.
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more about the other clinics.
