US envoy shouts 'fore' in embassy district

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 05 April 2013 | 11.25

CANBERRA'S diplomatic district may need to be on high alert for stray golf balls as the US ambassador tests out his new rooftop tee box.

The tee box and a practice putting green sit on top of the embassy's new public affairs building, unveiled by ambassador Jeffrey Bleich on Friday.

He proudly demonstrated his golf swing for the media, joking he was aiming for the nearby Indian embassy before whacking a ball out of the embassy grounds.

Fortunately the ball sailed over a carpark below.

"You know I have no control," Mr Bleich said, adding there were no numbers high enough to calculate his golf handicap.

But his golf skills are improving.

In February he won, with American professional Jessica Korda, the pro-am at the 2013 Australian Women's Open at Royal Canberra Golf Club.

"Jessica helped a bit," Mr Bleich said of the 2012 Open winner.

Until now, the embassy's public affairs team have worked out of the National Press Club building in Barton.

Mr Bleich donned a silver hard hat while cutting a red, white and blue ribbon with giant gold-plated scissors for the official ceremony.

He likened the "painful" construction process to an elephant pregnancy, which takes two years. But it could have been worse.

"For a while there we thought it could be more like the 3.5-year gestation period of the frilled shark."

The state-of-the-art clean and green building is faithful to the architecture of other embassy buildings.

"It had to have a green roof garden, with the right dimensions to accommodate a putting green and tee box," Mr Bleich said.

"So the fact I can practise my putting and drives from up there was well worth the pain for me."


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