Champion of all seniors

Club affiliation: Santa Ana Country Club

Residence: Newport Beach

Birthplace: Greenfield, Iowa

Age: 70

Golf handicap: 13

Favorite golf moment: Winning Santa Ana’s 1989 member/member

tournament with partner Tony DeGrazier for the first time.

Favorite club: A mid-iron

Favorite course played: Floridian Golf Club in Palm City, Fla.

Hobbies outside of golf: Any sport and spending time with children

and grandchildren.

Family: Wife, Eileen; son, Jim, daughter, Kelli Rutherford; three

grandchildren

Noteworthy: Won Santa Ana Country Club’s overall senior division

championship over three age-flight winners for the first time Nov.

13. Scored 20 points to win the championship by three in a format

which awarded one point for a par, two for each birdie and three for

an eagle. Won the 70-79 age division -- spread over four rounds of

match play -- to qualify for the 18-hole final. Two of the matches

came down to the last hole. Realized that “other players have the

same problems I do. There are nerves when you have to make that putt”

... Played guard on Compton High’s boys basketball team that went

32-0 en route to winning a CIF championship in 1952, his senior year

... Said Compton won 57 straight games in one span during his junior

and senior seasons ... Played at Pepperdine University for three

years ... Taught for 20 years at Big Bear High before becoming a

partner in a commercial development company called URO Investments

... Retired from full-time duties in 1998 ... Joined Santa Ana

Country Club in 1988.