Club affiliation: Mesa Verde Country Club Birthplace:...

Club affiliation: Mesa Verde Country Club

Birthplace: Stratford, Conn.

Residence: Costa Mesa

Age: 80

Golf handicap: 16

Favorite golf moment: Winning the president’s flight of the

Southern California Golf Association amateur championship in the

first time entering the event in 1962.

Favorite club: Driver

Favorite courses to play: Pebble Beach Golf Links, Muirfield Golf

Course in Gullane, Scotland

Hobby outside of golf: Read

Family: Wife, Patricia; sons, David, Clifford, daughter Gail; 10

grandchildren.

Noteworthy: Believed to be the longest continuous member at Mesa

Verde Country Club ... Joined in 1959 ... Has eagled all but four of

the club’s 18 holes and has tallied six holes-in-one at Mesa Verde

... His “ringer’s score,” the lowest score on each of the club’s 18

holes, is 39, Mesa Verde head golf professional Tom Sargent said ...

Competed in his only California State Amateur golf championship in

1962 ... Played four years at guard for Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute’s (Troy, N.Y.) men’s basketball team ... Spent 35 years

working in the aerospace industry.