Jim Allen

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Jim Allen

Nickname: "Crash"
Hometown: Anaheim Hills, CA
Age: 49 Years Old
Birthdate: 11/28/58
Profession: Sales Manager
Family Life: Married, two children

Home Course: Anaheim Hills Golf Course, Anaheim, CA

Age that I started golfing: 40

Favorite Course: Oak Quarry Golf Course, Riverside, CA

Golf Course with the Best Service: Pinehurst Resort & Golf Course

The best food I ever ate at a golf course was at ... Roys at Pebble Beach. Pot Roast three nights in a row.

My favorite ten courses on the TOP 100 list are ...
1. Pebble Beach
2. Pinehurst No. 2
3. Kapalua Plantation Course
4. Spyglass Golf Course
5. Bay Harbor Golf Club
6. Tullymore Golf Club
7. Caledonia Golf Course
8. Tidewater Golf Course
9. Pelican Hill Golf Course
10. Wolf Creek Golf Course

Handicap: 18 and cell phones.

In the bag:
Driver: King Cobra
Woods: Callaway X-460
Irons: Callaway X-20
Putter: Odyssey Mallet Putter

Lowest Round: 81 - Goose Creek Golf Course, Mira Loma, CA

Estimated number of rounds played in a year: 45

THAT'S GOOD ...

I can be confused with Tiger Woods on the golf course when ... when I have to make a 10-footer under pressure.

The shot I dread most on the golf course is ... the flop shot over a trap that needs to stop in a hurry.

My strangest moment on the 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.

The strangest thing that has happened to me, or I have seen on a Golfest trip was ... turning it into a full contact sport during a $1000 a hole skins match at Bandon Dunes. Fellow Golfester Jeffrey Adkins and I ended up tackling each other on the fairway.

My (best) shining moment on the golf course was when ... 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."

If I could add or change anything about a round of golf, I would ... speed it up. Slow round is the worst enemy of my game.

My fantasy foursome would include ... Peyton Manning, Tiger Woods, Cal Ripken Jr. & me. If my wife decided to trade me in for a new set of clubs, it would be Salma Hayek, Rene Russo, and Katherine Zeta Jones.