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.