Cypress Ridge has 'snag golf' Cypress Ridge Golf Course has a busy weekend planned focusing on an open house for the golf academy Sunday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Jim DeLaby, a PGA member and director of instruction at the rural Arroyo Grande championship course, has set up a free show that will introduce the professional staff at the course and provide some fun for kids and adults. DeLaby started at Cypress last July. He worked at La Purisima as a teaching pro from 1990 to 1997. Among the attractions Sunday will be trick-shot artist Brian Sieman, a friend of DeLaby's who is the director of golf at the Professional Golfer's Career College in Temecula. Armstrong is a golf instructor known for his innovations in training.
Snag golf is played as a tool for beginners.
Picture kids swinging oversize golf clubs whacking tennis balls at moving adults who are wearing colorful uniforms made of Velcro. Participants will be competing for prizes. It could be entertaining. The snag golf portion of the open house begins around 2 p.m. Rudy Duran has used the concept in his North County clinics and DeLaby too has introduced the schooling technique at Cypress during junior clinics. Dad could outhit the young student, but only by about 10 yards, he said.