Name: Lyman Gallup
Residence: Boise, Idaho
Occupation: Professor in the College of Business at Boise State Unversity, specialty in business statistics
PhD from the University of Oregon
Age: 59
I was born and raised in western Montana but have lived in Boise for the past 30 years. My wife and I recently built a winter home in Goodyear, AZ, where we hope to spend about 6 months a year starting in January, 2008. I have been playing golf for over 40 years and I typically post from 80 to 100 rounds a year. My handicap index has been between 0.0 and about 4.0 for the last 30 years. I have won a handful of club championships but not any tournaments that I would consider "good" amateur events. I made a golf trip to Scotland some years ago and played Royal Troon, Turnberry-Ailsa, the Old Course at SA, Carnoustie, and Muirfield as well as 5 others of less notoriety.
At one time I was on the USGA Mid-Amateur Championship committee and I also spent 6 years as the Executive Director of the Idaho Golf Association in the 1990's. During that time I was Chairman of the Rules Committee for the Pacific Coast Golf Association. I was turned on to GCA by Mike Cirba and Bill Vostniak at a Golfweek Course Rater retreat in Tucson in the spring of 2006 and have really enjoyed the site. I have been on the GolfWeek Course Rating Panel for about 5 years and I learn more and more about golf course architecture every day. Since visiting GCA I have found some friends from my past including John VanderBorght (spelling?, sorry John) who also spent some time in Portland with the PCGA.
In no particular order, some of my favorite courses among those I have played include Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes, the Fazio course at Pronghorn, Cypress Point, Pebble Beach, Plantation@ Kapalua, Royal Melbourne (West), Troon North (Monument), We-Ko-Pa (Saguaro), Forest Highlands, Desert Mountain (Cochise), The Old Course, Muirfield, Western Gailes, La Quinta Hotel (Mountain), and The Quarry @ LaQuinta.
Thank you to Ran for granting me access to this site.