Since these keep getting bumped, I'll add my info here
Andy Buck
Age: 38 - married, two sons, Noah (5), Jonah (1)
Handicap: 0.0
Residence: Peru, IL
Occupation: Accountant by trade, corporate finance for large international privately held company.
Home Club(s): Deer Park Country Club - 9 holes established 1904, newer 9 built in 1980's. Nice humble club with some character on the greens. Senica's Oak Ridge - semi private (read Public) James Spears design, good condition and value.
Favorite Courses: Kapalua, Olympia Fields (north), Crooked Stick, French Lick (Ross) Flossmoor, Beverly, Wolf Run, St Albans, Wakonda Club, Bull Valley, Exmoor, Cambrian Ridge
Hometown(history): Dwight, IL, played collegiate golf at Bradley University in Peoria followed by 12 years in Chicago/Palatine.
Hometown Courses: Dwight Country Club, where I worked on the grounds crew from the time I was 13 to 21 for my dad, who has been superintendent for 33 years. 1913 course that has 1 sand trap, but a few unique greens, all fast and smooth and had enough good golfers to teach me lessons and take my money growing up. Also played many, many rounds of golf at Pontiac Elks, Wolf Creek and Morris CC in those formative years.
Grew up enamored with golf courses and architecture, and probably "designed" thousands on notebooks. Wish I would have found this site earlier, as it sounds like I missed a lot of substance discussion in the early years. Right now my passion revolves more around how maintenance practices and decisions impact the architecture for existing courses.