Sweet swing

Name: Bill Conlin

Club affiliation: Newport Beach Country Club

Residence: Newport Beach

Birthplace: Gardner, Mass

Age: 71

Golf handicap: 18

Favorite golf moment: Getting a round of applause at St. Andrews

Favorite course played: St. Andrews

Favorite club: 7-iron

Family: Wife Laila, daughter Margo, son Patrick, grandchildren

Billy, Timmy, Danny, Laila

Favorite hobby outside of golf: Business consulting

Noteworthy: Won the Newport Beach CC men’s guest tournament with

Richard Bonaldo Feb. 16 ... Took up golf eight years ago after

retiring as a computer executive ... Earned his MBA at UC Berkley

after receiving his BA from U. Mass ... Was on cross country,

basketball and track field teams in high school ... Played St.

Andrews in 2000 and received a round of applause from onlookers after

a close approach shot from about 140-yards out on the 18th hole ...

Met his wife on a blind date on New Year’s Eve while home on leave

from the Marines ... Was about to go to the Korea War, but armistice

was signed and he remained in Nara, Japan.