| Other Victories |
| 1978 Utah Open, 1978 Idaho Open |
| Current Year SENIOR PGA TOUR Money
and Positions |
| $30,918 (84) |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Finishes |
| T28--Toshiba Senior Classic |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Round |
| 67 at Round 2, Toshiba Senior Classic |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| T6--1980 Tallahassee Open. |
| Best SENIOR TOUR Finishes |
| T3--2001 Turtle Bay Championship. |
| Best BUY.COM Finishes |
| T29--1999 NIKE Mississippi Gulf Coast Open. |
| Best 2001 SENIOR TOUR Finishes |
| T3--Turtle Bay Championship; 5--Farmers Charity Classic,
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Champ; T6--The Instinet
Classic; T7--NFL Golf Classic; T9--BellSouth Senior Classic
at Opryland; T10--Toshiba Senior Classic |
| 2001 Season SENIOR TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--31; in money--31; Top-10 finishes--7 |
| 2001 Season Highlights |
| One of five Q-School rookies to earn a spot among the
top 31 money-winners last year...Clinched his place when
he finished T3 at the Turtle Bay Championship late in
the season, his best performance of the campaign. Closed
with a 5-under 67 in windy conditions and vaulted from
14th place into third on Sunday...Registered seven top-10s
overall with four of them coming during a five-week stretch
in June and early July. Was a cumulative 33-under and
was only over par in one of his 15 rounds during that
period...Was first in contention at the Toshiba Senior
Classic in early March. Found himself as the 36-hole leader
in the event after firing a career-best 8-under 63 at
Newport Beach Country Club on Saturday. Faltered in the
final round with a 6-over 77 and finished T10...Was next
in the hunt at the Farmers Charity Classic. On the leaderboard
each day at Egypt Valley and eventually placed fifth in
Grand Rapids after three straight sub-70 rounds, one of
only three players in the field to record a round in the
60s each day...Also T5 at the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match
Play Championship, losing 2-up to Vicente Fernandez in
the quarterfinals. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2000: Made four appearances after turning 50 in mid-year,
all through open qualifying...Best effort was a T36 at
the Lightpath Long Island Classic...Earned full playing
privileges for 2001 after shooting four straight par/better
rounds at Eagle Pines Golf Club at Walt Disney World.
Was T2 along with Bill Holstead, seven strokes back of
Bob Gilder...Had finished second to Sammy Rachels at the
regional qualifier at The Moors in Milton, FL. |
| Personal |
| Got started in golf at age 6 when his dad, Marvin, made
his first club for him...Lists Arnold Palmer as his biggest
hero...Worked from 1982-1991 as a sports reporter and
sports anchor for WBTV-Channel 3 in Charlotte...Was voted
as the Golfcaster of the Year in 1985 by the Carolina
Golf Writers Association and won several Associated Press
and United Press International awards for sports broadcasting
in the mid-80s...Also worked in group sales for the Charlotte
Rage (arena football) in 1993. |
