Name: JOHN HOWSON

Birthdate: March 13, 1959

Birth Place: Scotland

Age: 50 Ht.: 5'9" Wt.: 170

Home: Sparks, Md.

College: University of Birmingham (England)

Player Notes: Tied for medalist at the Haymarket, Va., sectional at Evergreen Country Club without ever playing the course previously ... The day before sectional qualify, he won the senior title at the Maryland Amateur Stroke Play Championship, tying for fourth overall ... In the 1980s, won the British University Championship and competed in numerous British Amateurs ... Is vice president of global engineering at Black and Decker.