Amateur familiar with golf on the big stage

Club affiliation: Big Canyon Country Club

Residence: Newport Beach

Birthplace: Oakland

Age: 45

Golf handicap: 1

Favorite golf moment: Playing and qualifying for the 1986 U.S.

Open at the San Francisco Club

Favorite club to use: Driver

Favorite course to play: Pine Valley Golf Club

Favorite hobbies outside of golf: Skiing and weightlifting

Family: Wife, Sandy; daughter, Claire (7), son, Dalton (11).

Noteworthy: Played in two U.S. Open championships as an amateur,

missing the cut by just two strokes in 1986 and four shots in 1989.

Competed for six years on mini tours during the ‘80s, including

stints on the Asian and European tours. Shot 69-74 -- 143 to qualify

for match play at last year’s U.S. Amateur championship at historic

Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa. His performance at Oakmont

earned DuBois an exemption into the British Amateur, held at St.

Andrews in June. DuBois shot 71-73 -- 144, missing match play by one

stroke. Played college golf at Arizona State University and won the

Arizona state amateur title in 1980.