Was the college teammate of fellow TOUR player Carl Pettersson at North Carolina State University.

Recorded his first hole-in-one when he was age 8.

Donated his first-place share of approximately $20,000 at the November 2005 Nelson Mandela Invitational to a deaf girl from the Carel du Toit School for the Hearing Impaired in Tygerberg, South Africa, who needed implant surgery. "It put into perspective what life is all about–and it's not about all those putts I'm able to put away or miss at the crucial stages of an event, but life in general," he said.