Who are you guys......really???

[Jonathan Cummings]

Craig - Danny Gatton is not past.  He's alive and well and performs frequently.  JC

[Jim Franklin]

Jim Franklin AKA Mr Hurricane
3.6 index
Baltimore Country Club
Partner in financial services firm with my 3 brothers
Age : 42
Family : wife, 2 beautiful daughters (4 & 2)

I have been a panelist with GD for 2 years and have learned and enjoyed more and more about architecture from this site. I am fortunate to travel with my career (clients in 35 states) and have played a wide variety of courses. Most of the top courses I played before becoming a panelist. Mackenzie is my favorite architect and I even named my second daughter Mackenzie.

[lesueur]

Richard Le Sueur (formerly RLS)
Age: 31
Handicap: 9
Occupation: Golf Course Architect
Residence: Edinburgh, Scotland
Home Clubs: Royal Burgess and Luffness New

Background: Studied at Robert Gordons School of Architecture in Scotland, then on to Michigan State for turfgrass and then Herriot-Watt for MSc in GCA. In between study I've worked mostly in construction and grow-in (USA, Ireland, Scotland and Middle East) and now run my design company based in Scotland.

I know a lot of you guys often make trips over this way. If you're looking for a golfing partner while in Scotland (or want to know which pub to go to), feel free to get in touch. I already have one game arranged at North Berwick with a GCAtlaser in May.

[chris_neblett]

Chris Neblett
Age 34
Occupation: Internet development/First year law student at night
Handicap: 18

[Sam W]

Sam Williamson
Age=53
Index= +.2
Ventura, California

Home Clubs= Rustic Canyon, Buenaventura, and play most anywhere in socal

Occupation = "semi-retired" Golf Course Superintendent, most recently 16 years at Ojai Valley Inn.......would love to build , grow-in, and maintain a new one !!!

[Gary_Nelson]

Gary Nelson
Age:  38
Hometown:  Northville, Michigan
Handicap: 5
Home course:  Links of Novi (almost NLE)
Married w/ 2 kids (both budding golf enthusiasts)
Occupation:  Sales manager for a consumer electronics company

Discovered GCA while researching Crystal Downs in 2002.  I haven't left since.

[W.H. Cosgrove]

William H. Cosgrove  (AKA Cos)
Financial Planner
Tacoma, WA
Age 49
Married - No Kids ....two obnoxious cats
Handicap.  2 playing to about twelve.   Anybody want to make a wager?
Home Club; Oakbrook Golf & Country
Golfweek Rater
Hobbies: Skiing, Photos, annual pruning of my apple tree
Jim, I pretty much gave up on becoming the next Eric Clapton.  I have no idea of who those guys Jonaton is talking about!

[SL_Solow]

Sheldon L. Solow
Highland Park , Il.
Attorney
53, reasonably well preserved
Married with 2 children
Member Briarwood CC (Colt & Alison 1921), immediate past President, Greens Chair for 6 years, currently co Greens Chair, headed "sympathetic renovation" project which brought back much of the Colt & Alison (credit belongs to architect Mark Mungeam)

[Craig Van Egmond]

JC,

     I don't know which Danny Gatton you are referring to, but Danny Gatton "Master of the Telecaster" and "The Greatest Unknown Guitarist in the World" committed suicide in October of 1994.  He inherited the second title from Roy Buchanan who also played the telecaster and committed suicide in jail. Roy once turned down joining the Stones because he didn't want to have to learn all those songs.

[Neil Regan]

Neil Regan
Bronxville, NY
Age 47, GHIN 2.x
Winged Foot, Ballybunion, Machrihanish, Portrush

[A.G._Crockett]

A.G. Crockett
Alpharetta, GA (but a Tar Heel through and through)
51

Currently in my 30th yr. as a high school teacher and coach, with 26 yrs. in basketball and the last 4 as golf coach.

Current index is 5.7 at Alpharetta CC (9 holes by Willard Byrd, 9 by a design firm, 6100 from the tips and one of only two ways to play a LOT of golf affordably in the Atlanta area)

Married (above myself, I might add) with two great kids.
Not a rater, but would love to be.  

[Pete Buczkowski]

Pete Buczkowski
Age 26
Chapel Hill, NC (soon to be Orlando, FL)
Married, no children
HDCP: 10 and climbing
Home club:  UNC Finley

I'm finishing my doctorate work at UNC-Chapel Hill and getting ready to make the plunge into the workforce.  Will be working at Disney as an industrial engineer.  Feel free to IM me after May if you are going there for vacation; I'll try to get you some free tix or discounts to the resorts.  Unfortunately, school has dominated my time here, but I love the game and the wonderful venues that we have available (and the ones not so available  ).  I discovered GCA when looking up info on WWPB and have been hooked ever since.

Pete

[Rick Shefchik]

Name: Rick Shefchik
Age: 58  
Live: Stillwater, Minn.
Family: Wife Barbara (a golfer, to my great fortune) and two kids -- Claire, a MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence, and David, a junior in computer science at the University of Arizona.
Occupation: Novelist and free-lance writer, author of "amen Corner," "Green Monster" and "Frozen Tundra," and a forthcoming book on Minnesota's historic golf clubs. Former newspaper reporter/columnist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press
Hobbies: Golf, guitar.
Member: Stillwater Country Club (Tom Vardon, 1924)
Former Member: Northland C.C., Duluth, MN (Donald Ross 1927); Oak Glen C.C., Stillwater, MN (Don Herfort, 1984).
Handicap index: 5.9 and rising.
Rater affiliation: None -- not that there's anything wrong with it.

[ChasLawler]

Cabell Ackerly
(posted as Rannulph_Junah for a while)
Richmond, Virginia
Club:The County Club of Virginia
Handicap: 4
Age: 31
Married with no kids (hot topic though)
Occupation: Construction Management

[Jonathan Cummings]

Craig - You are quite correct.  I was confusing Bill Kirchen with Danny Gatton.  Sorry.  JC

[Scott_Burroughs]

Jonathan,

Bill Kirchen has Too Much Fun when he plays.

[Lloyd_Cole]

Lloyd Cole
Musician
43, Married, 2 boys
Reside - Western Massachusetts
Member - Connemara, Co Galway.
& Beaver Brook, my local 9 hole, Haydenville, MA.
Handicap (R and A) - 7

Nice to meet you all.

[pdrake]

Hello all,

Phil Drake
Naples, FL
10.5 handicap
Associated with - Kittansett Club, Hole in the Wall and Round Hill Club

[Peter Galea]

Pete Galea
Age 48
Golf Course Superintendent
Pajaro Valley Golf Club
Watsonville, CA
8 hdcp.
Photographer

[Mike Benham]

Mike Benham
San Mateo, CA

CFO type

Club Affiliation:  Pajaro Valley

1 career Hole-in-One on the 3rd hole at Ruby Hill GC in Pleasanton, Northern California's first Nicklaus design  

[Mickey Boland]

Mickey Boland
Harlingen, TX
Handicap 8
Banker

I've worked on courses, at courses, and in my dad's architecture firm when he briefly entered the golf course design and remodeling business.

[Ken Fry]

Ken Fry
Niles, MI
GM & PGA Head Golf Professional
Signal Point Club (A sporty, little nine hole course designed by Robert Bruce Harris in 1963.  Two sets of tees on each hole and two pins in every green.)

UPDATE:

Left Signal Point Club in 2005 after four years.  For anyone traveling to The Dunes Club or any of the South Bend courses, Signal is a fun spot to play.

During my tenure as a golf professional I caddied at Arthur Hills' Golf Club of Georgia, Clyde Johnston's Southerness Club outside Atlanta (NLE), helped open Hurdzan and Frye's Blackthorn Golf Club in South Bend, Bob Dustin designed Morris Park CC in South Bend,  Tom Bedelow's Meridian Hills CC in Indianapolis, opened the Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame (what a treat getting to know Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw, Jeff Bradley and the rest of the crew) then finished at Signal Point.

In 2005 began a career in orthopedic implant sales with Biomet then with Zimmer.  I'm settled just outside of South Bend if anyone rolls through town and would like to get together!

[John Moore]

John Moore
39, married no kids
Royal Oak, MI
9.X handicap
book buyer for a national chain
Favorite MI public courses:
Arcadia Bluffs
Forest Dunes
Pilgrims Run
 
Became interested in GCA when I stumbled across Doak's Confidential GD. Been lurking here for 6 months or so since I googled for Bandon Dunes and found this gem of a discussion board.

No course rating but have club tested for Golf Magazine.

I look forward to meeting some of you at the Angels Crossing outing.

[Michael Dugger]

Michael J. Dugger
Born and residing in Portland, OR
30 years old
no wife, no kids, no pets

I've been a gca junkie since first finding a copy of Hunter's book on the University Library bookshelf back in 1992.
Worked for Landscapes Unlimited as a college intern on a Jeff Brauer course in Davis, CA called Wildhorse and a David Druzisky/Jay Morrish design outside of Las Vegas called Dragon Ridge.  Even pushed some dirt with the Deere 850!

Played golf since I was 11 years old, participated on the golf team in high school.  I have no current affiliations to any clubs because I'm too busy and too poor.  Play to about a 15 on most days.  Can boast about scoring a hole in one!!
Currently on a mission to play and photograph every course in my region.  Working on a website of my own about gca.      

[Pete Lavallee]

Name: Pete Lavallee, formerly Pete_L.
Age:   47
Home: San Diego, Ca.
Club:   Balboa Park GC, William Park Bell design
Index: 4.5
Job:    Engineer for the US Navy
Status:Happily married to a lovely English lass for the last 21 years. No kids.