Los Angeles County; San Bernardino County; Riverside County; Palm Springs Area; Orange County; San Diego County; Ventura County; Santa Barbara County; San Luis Obispo Area; Laughlin/Bullhead City; Portland/Vancouver; Vancouver/Southwest; * Other

Titleist 905R 8.5 degree driver, Titleist 906 15 degree fairway wood, Ping Rapture irons 3-LW, Ping Putter and the best Titleist or Callaway balls I can find.

I enjoy following the PGA, LPGA & Champions tours, especially their major tournaments. Have enjoyed watching the real pros in person for 20+ years, try and take in at least one pro event every year. Especially like watching the pro's on the range, where you really get great insight into their sheer consistency.

My golf pet peeve? The guy with a vanity handicap @ the water cooler. When I talk with a new acquaintance who claims to have a low single digit handicap, I often find them to be 10 - 15 shots worse than they claim to be after we play. Maybe they break 80 on a career day from the white tees, riding in a cart, with mulligans and taking every putt within 3 ft. as a gimme? I have gotten scowls from many when I tell them I usually play the blue or occasionally still the black tees, walk whenever I can, putt everything out on all 18 holes and the only mulligans allowed are when you go OB or lose a ball, and that's called stroke & distance after replaying from the previous spot. The other guys I hate are the ones who can't count past bogey. Haven't we all played at least one round with someone who had multiple penalty shots on a hole, flubbed 2 chips, then 3 putted, yet claimed they made a bogey?

I prefer to walk when I play, I feel like it paces the round better and that I usually play better golf than when I ride a cart. Riding back and forth with a cart makes it not only harder to judge the distance your ball traveled, it also defeats many of the things I think are great about this game... The exercise, the stamina required to play well for 18 holes and just plain taking the time to enjoy the sights and sounds of the beautiful outdoors. Walking from shot to shot provides the opportunity to plan out and hopefully execute what is required to best my real opponents on any given day... the elements and the course I'm playing (not necessarily my playing partners).

I swing hard because I was John Daly with a driver BEFORE anyone had ever heard of John Daly. I can manage a course reasonably well when trying, but there is rarely a tree, lake or bunker I won't try to go over unless trying to do so and failing will cost me with $$$ on the line. Then I'll try and play more % golf. But if it's "just" a regular round & losing a ball/stroke on the many times I don't make it... that isn't enough of a detriment in most of my rounds to supress the feeling you get when you actually DO pull off a shot that would make a PGA Tour pro wink & grin.