Taking senior flight by storm
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Club affiliation: Big Canyon Country Club
Residence: Newport Beach
Birthplace: Toledo, Ohio
Age: 56
Golf handicap: 2
Favorite golf moment: Winning six titles -- five gross and one net
-- in Big Canyon Country Club’s men’s member/guest championships.
Favorite club to use: Sand wedge
Favorite course to play: Cypress Point Club in Pebble Beach,
Calif.
Family: Wife, Karen; daughters Jenny, Jody, Hayden
Noteworthy: Caves shot a 1-under-par 141 to win the senior
flight’s gross division by two strokes playing in his first Costa
Mesa city championship, which concluded Aug. 8 at Costa Mesa Golf &
Country Club. Caves shot 1-under 71 on the longer Los Lagos course
Aug. 7 while carding an even-par 70 on the Mesa Linda course the
following day. Caves, a Big Canyon member for 30 years, said he
putted well and gave credit to course superintendent Jim Fetterly.
“The greens were in remarkable condition. They were tournament-type
fast and that is the way they should be,” Caves said. Learned how to
play golf at age 9 from Betty Hicks, one of the women who aided in
the early growth and development of the Ladies Professional Golf
Association who also was a teaching pro at Los Coyotes Country Club
in Buena Park at the time. Won the Los Angeles Junior Open.
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