WEEKEND WARRIOR: 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

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

Photo by Tindall Stephens