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Club affiliation: Mesa Verde Country Club

Residence: Huntington Beach

Birthplace: Wichita, Kansas

Age: 52

Golf handicap: 1

Favorite golf moments: Winning the Mesa Verde member/guest

tournament with younger brother Brian in June and the 1992 Pebble

Beach invitational, a team event.

Favorite club to use: Sand wedge

Favorite course played: Pebble Beach Golf Links

Noteworthy: Elected to a second year as Mesa Verde club president

... Owns T & M Banana Company ... Won three Mesa Verde men’s club

championships (1991, ‘93, ‘95) ... Played on Arizona State

University’s men’s golf team from 1969-’73, which included defending

Toshiba Senior Classic champion Tom Purtzer, Morris Hatalsky, who

finished second to Purtzer, Howard Twitty and Bob Gilder ... Shot a

19-over-par 161 (79-82) in the United States Golf Association’s

Mid-Amateur championship, his first USGA event, Oct. 2-7 at Sea

Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Ga. ... McGreevy was an

alternate, but received a phone call from the USGA’s Dave Donnelly

the morning of Oct. 1 telling him Thomas Samaha of Holtville, Calif.,

hadn’t shown for registration, leaving an open spot in the 264-player

field ... McGreevy and Samaha both shot 69s in a sectional qualifying

round in Warner Springs, Calif., but both left the site before a

playoff could be conducted ... McGreevy, who left to attend a Mesa

Verde board meeting that evening, lost a coin flip to determine a

qualifier and alternate.