Okay, now that I have read some of the other people’s get to know me threads I have a better idea of what is required of me.
First, I am up to 10 holes in one
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The most memorable was my second; I was playing the second hole at Brentwood CC where I grew up with my father. The pin was on the right side of the green and the hole itself wasn’t visible from the tee. Both my dad and I hit good shots right at the pin, mine flew next to the hole and his landed short on the backside of the bunker and bounced towards the hole. When we got to the green there was only one ball, about 2 feet away, and a pitch mark about 1 foot short of the hole. Initially, I went to mark the ball 2 feet thinking my dad’s ball was short, but then I saw the ball in the hole. We both were playing the same brand, luckily different numbers, and I checked the ball on the green and it wasn’t mine:).
I played college golf at UCSB, for a couple years with Geoff Shackleford, before he transferred to Pepperdine. I was fairly successful in college, but mostly had better results in the summer at the national amateur events. After college I turned pro, played on the Hooters Tour, Asian Tour, Canadian Tour, Nike Tour, Golden Bear Tour, Dakotas Tour, and some events on the Golden State Tour, various State Opens and 1 PGA Tour event that I Monday qualified for ( I missed the cut by 2 , Tucson Open ).
When I turned 30 I wasn’t really happy with the lifestyle the professional golf provided. I had lost my status on the Buy.com Tour (formally Nike) and decided to try Q-school one last time. I got disqualified after my first round in the first stage, I’ll wait for someone to ask why to tell that story, and it still pisses me off! Anyway, I stopped playing golf for a living, and was planning on going to Law School, when an old friend was starting a company and needed someone to help him raise funds. I raised 80% of the funds for the company, and my business life began.
I have my amateur status back and love participating in tournaments, seeing my old friends around the county from my playing days, and my competitive drive, although waning is still there. I have had some successes, I won the Trans Mississippi Amateur in 2005, made match play and played Danny Lee at the US AM in 2008, and also won a national mid am event @ Carlton Woods in 2011.
I help a young woman who was on the Solheim Cup last year, so I had the wonderful experience of representing our country by caddying in the event. We (the players, caddies and captains) all stayed on the same guarded floor in Ireland, we ate dinner together, spent free time in the Team Room together, and that is how I got to have the up close and personal experience with the Solheim Cup USA Team.