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The Quest to Play the Top 100 Public Golf Courses in the United States
Nickname: "Crash"
Hometown: Anaheim Hills, CA
Birthdate: 11/28/58
Profession: Sales Manager
Family Life: Married, two children
What's on TV ... CSI, Law & Order, Parenthood, AFV, & Colts football!
On my iPod ... Nickelback, Hair Bands of the 80's, Metallica, & AC/DC.
Favorite Movies ... Conspiracy Theory, Black Hawk Down, Van Wilder & The Hangover.
What's for Dinner ... Filet Migeon (Medium), Garlic Shrimp, Baked Potato, a glass of good Merlot, topped off with a piece of cheesecake.
My RRR (Road Rage Rating) from a scale of 1-10 is a ... 7.5. I tend to get wound up pretty tight!
My bucket list still includes ... To finish off the Top 100 list (I have 69 done now.) ... Play at St. Andrews. ... To get both of my kids through college. ... Watch the Colts win at least two more Super Bowls before Peyton Manning retires. ... Get a hole-in-one. ... Buy another RV -- better said - a touring bus. ... Go to Austraila on vacation. ...
My home course is the ... Anaheim Hills Golf Course, Anaheim, CA
I started golfing at age ... 40
My lowest round was a ... 81 at Goose Creek Golf Course - Mira Loma, CA
Handicap ... 19, cell phones and thinking about work on the golf course.
My Top 10 favorite courses are ...
1. Pebble Beach
2. TPC Sawgrass - Stadium Course
3. WeaverRidge Golf Club
4. Spyglass Golf Course
5. Bay Harbor Golf Club
6. Tullymore Golf Club
7. Caledonia Golf Course
8. Pinehurst No. 2
9. Pelican Hill Golf Course
10. Wolf Creek Golf Course
In the bag ...
Driver: King Cobra
Woods: Callaway X
Hybrids: King Cobra 4 & 5
Irons: Callaway X-20 - 6-LW
Putter: Rossa Fontana
My shining moment on a golf course was ... I lipped out a hole in one at the Challenge at Manele in Lanai, Hawaii. The problem was I was golfing alone at the time and my hole in one would not have been recognized. It went something like this ... "Oh ya ... be the club .... go in ... go in ... it's going in ... wait .... don't go in... I need witnesses."
My worst golf course habit is ... losing focus.
With money on the line, I can be counted on in the clutch to ... sink a 10-foot putt.
I could shave five-strokes off my score tomorrow if I ... quit thinking about work.
My strangest moment on a golf course was ... flipping a golf cart at Wolf Creek Golf Course in Mesquite, Nevada. While I have screwed around and deserved to flip one at least 100 times, this wasn't supposed to happen. (No alcohol was involved) Coming down the hill on Number eight, a par three with an elevated tee box, the rear wheel of the cart hit a curb and a speed bump at the same time. The cart flipped violently and landed on me. Damage include a bump on the head, a bloody elbow, and compressed vertebrae on L4 & L5. After a little first aid, I finished the round. According to course officials, I was the sixth person to flip in the first six months the course was open. I returned to the course in 2007 and discovered that the existing cart path was plowed up and rerouted. I still have back pain to this day from that event.
My number one pet peeve on a golf course is ... two peeves to be exact. The first is slow golfers and the other is Top 100 courses that don't live up to their expectations.
My fantasy foursome would include ... Peyton Manning, Sarah Palin, George W & me. If my wife decided to trade me in for a new set of clubs, it would be Salma Hayek, Charlize Theron, and Katherine Zeta Jones.
