Benjamin Slobodien is a PGA golf instructor at Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course in Irvine, a public facility in the heart of Orange County's master-planned community that serves as one of the primary public golf venues for the large and golf-active Irvine population. The course plays through the flatlands of the San Joaquin Marsh area with a layout that rewards accurate ball-striking and reliable scoring club distance control — fundamental skills that Slobodien builds into his instruction regardless of the student's starting handicap. His lessons are accessible to the Irvine and greater Orange County golf community without the membership requirement of the many private clubs that surround the facility.