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Rusty ArmstrongTitle/Company: Executive broker, ERA HenleyReal EstateHandicap: 17How much do you play? I play three to fourtimes a week spring to fall and about once aweek in the winter.When did you take up the game?I started playing about 20 years ago when Istarted playing on holidays with a big groupof friends. I was the worst one but it got mehooked.Where do you play? Rebsamen Park GolfCourse.What’s your best score in competition (andif you want, add your best score just playingaround)? My best scores are 82 in competitionand 79 in weekly golf but those are notnormal.Career holes inone (and where,if you want to bespecific). None,just near misses.If you had tochoose one stateamateur partnerin a four-ball, whowould that be?Kenny Williams,retired, we maynot win but it willbe a lot of fun.What PGA prowould you choose? Bubba Watson.Favorite golf movie? Tin Cup.Rusty Armstrong gets in afew rounds in the winter.What’s your best golf memory? A golf tripwith eight guys to Culver, Ind., where weplayed three different courses and a totalof 90 holes in three days. It was about a10-hour drive in an RV. Now that wasfellowship.If you couldn’t be playing golf, you’d be . . .?I would be cooking or keeping my granddaughterSybil.Byron FreelandTitle/Company: Attorney at law, MitchellWilliams Selig Gates & WoodyardHandicap: 4How much do you play? Practice/play weekendsand after work as often as possible.When did you take up the game?9 years old.Byron Freeland atSt. Andrews.event; 67 best score at CCLR.Where do you play?Country Club of LittleRock and The AlotianClub.What’s your best score incompetition (and if youwant, add your best scorejust playing around)?72 even par is best scoreat an ASGA stroke playCareer holes in one (and where, if you want tobe specific). Two – Nos. 6 and 11 at CountryClub of Little Rock.If you had to choose one state amateur partnerin a four-ball, who would that be? Louis Lee.What PGA pro would you choose? Jon Zieske(Arkansas) and Rory McIlroy (PGA tour).Favorite golf movie? Tin Cup.What’s your best golf memory? Playing atCypress Point and having lunch with Eliand Peyton Manning in the men’s grill. Alsostaying at the Old Course Hotel and playingSt. Andrews.If you couldn’t be playing golf, you’d be . . .?Watching the Razorbacks play.What type clubs do you play/prefer? Ping.What’s the best course you’ve played? Alotian,Cypress Point, and Royal County Down inNorthern Ireland.What’s the course you’d love to play that youhaven’t? Augusta National.What’s the best hole in Arkansas? No. 18 atthe Alotian Club.Who is the best business exec golfer inArkansas? Joey Nichols and Stan Payne.Kevin A. CrassTitle/Company: Partner/Friday, Eldredge &Clark, LLPHandicap: 9Kevin Crass has onecareer hole in one.How much do youplay? Once a weekduring good weather.When did you take upthe game? I startedplaying after lawschool.Where do you play?Alotian and TheCountry Club ofLittle Rock.What’s your best score in competition (andif you want, add your best score just playingaround)? If Joe Hurst’s 50th birthday tournamentcounts, 1-under par.Career holes in one (and where, if you want tobe specific). One, on No. 11 at Alotian.If you had to choose one state amateurpartner in a four-ball, who would that be?Ted Gammill.What PGA pro would you choose?Phil Mickelson.Favorite golf movie? Caddyshack.What’s your best golf memory? In eight daysin 2000 I played Cypress Point, PebbleBeach and Augusta National.If you couldn’t be playing golf, you’d be . . .?Watching college basketball.What type clubs do you play/prefer?Callaway X-16s.What’s the best course you’ve played?Augusta National.What’s the course you’d love to play that youhaven’t? Pine Valley.What’s the best hole in Arkansas? Tie. No.10 at Alotian (most beautiful) and No. 13 atAlotian (most fun).Who is the best business exec golfer inArkansas? Steve Anthony.26 ARKANSAS BUSINESS EXECUTIVE GOLFER / 2013