WEEKEND WARRIOR Photo by Tindall Stephens
Dr. Jim Savage, Golfer 71, Ophthalmologist (glaucoma specialist) with Eye Specialty Group, Regional Affairs & Referee for the United States Golf Association.
RECENT WIN: I am currently the Super Senior Club Champion at Southwind Country Club and beat my age by 3 strokes last Summer.
BRAGGING RIGHTS: I’ve qualified for 5 U.S. National Championships and 3 British Amateur Championships, and I won State and Regional titles while living in Texas.
FAVORITE ACCOMPLISHMENT: I was a quarter-finalist in the 1986 United States Mid-Amateur Championship. I also qualified for the 1987 United States Amateur Championship and outscored Phil Mickelson in the stroke play qualifying.
NEXT CHALLENGE: Defending my Super Senior title this August at Southwind.
WHAT I LOVE GOLF: You can play it all your life and meet wonderful people. If I hadn’t been playing at Dayton Country Club one day back in 1990, I would not have met my wife, Mary!
THE JOY OF THE GAME: You can play for a lifetime and never master it.
BUCKET LIST: Return to Scotland and Ireland with my wife Mary without golf clubs!
MUST-HAVE GEAR: My 56 degree wedge
1967 Club Championship Arsenal Island Golf Course, Rock Island, IL
BEST TUNES FOR THE GREEN: Puccini’s opera, Turandot
BEST EATS: Staks has a delicious Breakfast Burrito with homemade salsa and matchless Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
ON MY NIGHTSTAND: Tommy’s Honor GOLF PET PEEVE: S-L-O-W players! FAVORITE QUOTE: “Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case…” —Bobby Jones 44
1991 Club Championship Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, TX
