Played collegiately at Wake Forest University, where he was a teammate of Joe Inman and Lanny Wadkins...Inducted into Wake
Forest Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997...Has worked with instructor Jimmy Ballard...Got started in golf by his father...His
hero is fellow Wake Forest product Arnold Palmer...Was a standout high school basketball player who turned down scholarship
opportunities to play college golf...His daughter is an attorney and his son is a biomedical engineer...Lists "The Andy Griffith
Show" as his favorite TV program and basketball star Tim Duncan as his favorite athlete.