Been a long-time reader of GCA and a part-time poster, hoping to contribute more in 2009.
Name: Stewart Grant
Resides: St. Marys, Ontario, Canada
Age: 35
Handicap: 7
Married: yes, with two kids (ages 3 & 1)
Occupation: Chartered Accountant. CFO of three Bermuda insurance companies.
Member: St. Marys Golf Club in Ontario and Mt. Pleasant Country Club in Michigan.
Sports other than golf: hockey, curling, crokinole
Favorite Teams: Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, Toronto Blue Jays
Favorite Courses Played: Plainfield CC, Oakmont, Bethpage Black, Inverness, National GC of Canada, Somerset Hills, Kingsley Club, Tobacco Road, Redtail, Mid Ocean, Port Royal, Bayonne
Miscellaneous Golf Facts:
1) Started playing golf at age 10 and like a good accountant I have every course that I have ever played on a detailed spreadsheet, sortable by course architect, country, number of times played, etc.
2) Fought the yips for five long years before getting a belly putter in 2006.
3) Campaigned successfully to save the uphill par-3 16th hole at St. Marys Golf Club from re-design
4) First person to play golf in London Ontario this millennium (played Golfland in the snow on the morning of January 1, 2000)
5) Never had a hole in one despite roughly 5,800 attempts on par-threes.
6) Looking forward to my first GCA gathering this summer at Kingsley.