Dan Rogers

Club affiliation: Santa Ana Country Club

Residence: Costa Mesa

Birthplace: Long Beach

Age: 69

Golf handicap: 14

Favorite golf moment: Tallying his first eagle, on the par-3 18th

hole at Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles in 1964. Rogers was playing in a foursome with Nick Rhoades, Roger Cleveland, the

developer of Cleveland irons, and Brian Gaddy, a top amateur at the

time. The foursome played behind the USC golf team during a practice

round. Rogers used a 6-iron. “The ball one-hopped into the cup,” said

Rogers, an assistant basketball coach at the school at the time. “We

were the last group of the day. The varsity players stood on the

hillsides behind the green.”

Favorite club to use: Putter

Favorite course to play: Pine Valley

Favorite hobby outside of golf: Involvement with Goodwill

Industries of Orange County.

Family: Wife, Sheila; daughter, Tracy; sons, John, Joe, Pete

Noteworthy: Rogers, a star guard on the USC men’s basketball team

in the 1950s, has been president and chief executive of Goodwill for

three years. Rogers, who coached the UC Irvine men’s basketball team

for two years from 1965-67, has served as Chairman of the Board for

the Second Harvest Food Bank and was president of the Harbor Area

Boys Club, among several charities he has donated time to.