Making big splash at Big Canyon

Club affiliation: Big Canyon Country Club

Residence: Newport Beach

Birthplace: Santa Monica

Age: 31

Golf handicap: Plus 1

Favorite golf moment: Tallying his first hole-in-one while playing

the Cruden Bay Golf Club in Scotland. Used a 7-iron from 168 yards

away.

Favorite club to use: Driver

Favorite course to play: Pine Valley Golf Club

Family: Parents Ted and Julie; sister Leah Simkins.

Noteworthy: Won his first Big Canyon Country Club men’s club

stroke-play championship Sept. 12 by four shots over two-time

defending champion Will Tipton. Won the 2001 Costa Mesa city

championship on his first attempt. Raised primarily in Corona del Mar

and Laguna Beach. Graduated from Santa Margarita in 1992 and attended

Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he played basketball.

Works for his father’s commercial real estate company.