Attended the University of North Carolina.

Owns a packaging company and is a partner in a plastic-recycling business.

Lists Winged Foot as his favorite golf course.

Favorite entertainer is John Wayne and reads anything by John Patterson.

Arnold Palmer is his favorite athlete.

Appeared on the January 12, 1962 cover of Golf World as a 5-year-old after attending the annual Christmas golf outing at Pinehurst in North Carolina.