Volume 31 • Number 33 • July 11, 2013
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At 74, Centennial’s Bob Glanville isn’t teed off yet
By Peter Jones ob Glanville has been playing golf for most of his 74 years. While other preteens were shooting hoops or BB guns, Glanville was putting balls with his family. Years later, when he traveled to Asian hotspots as a government contractor, Glanville even found time for a few holes in Vietnam. For two years, the Centennial man was a professional on the PGA’s Senior Players Tour, where he had the time of his life and proved true the axiom, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” [But alas, so did his considerable expenses.] Today, Glanville is a teaching pro and a tech rep for Wilson Staff Golf. When he is not on the course, he runs the club repair shop at Cherry Creek Country Club and writes books on the art, science and lifestyle of golf. The title of his first tome – Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures – said it all, as the author coached players to fuse the physical and mental aspects of the game, thus dwindling their botches one swing at a time. In Real Golf, his latest book, the septuagenarian turns his focus on older players and high handicappers by centering on the 96 percent of golfers who, frankly, aren’t that good – real golfers, as he calls them. “Real golf isn’t hard; only good golf is hard,” Glanville writes. The author admits there is irony in writing about the game. “A lot of golfers don’t like reading books,” he said. “They found out you can’t learn anything from reading a golf book, but it takes reading a lot of golf books to learn you can’t learn
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Former pro golfer Bob Glanville is author of the new book Real Golf, a primer for older players and high handicappers. “Real golfers don’t mind bets being doubled … since what they lose is not even enough to pay the bar bill,” he writes.
Local man pleads guilty in home-buying scheme Cherry Creek
By Peter Jones An Englewood man has pleaded guilty to his role in three mortgagefraud schemes that totaled three counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Roger K. Howard, 50, is free on bond and will be sentenced Aug. 26. His co-defendant Oai Quang Luong had already pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and will be sentenced Aug. 15, according to the Denver U.S. Attorney’s Office. Both had been indicted by a federal grand jury. During a period 2006-2007, Howard and Luong were involved the fraudulent purchasing of town-
homes in Aurora and other singlefamily houses in Denver and Castle Rock. Howard and Luong, whose company processed the fraudulent mortgage-loan applications, kept offices in the same Centennial building. Howard was accused in his indictment of purposefully falsifying mortgage applications by overstating the prospective incomes of the buyers he called “investors” by as much as double their actual earnings. In some cases, bank accounts were inflated temporarily when their balances were to be verified. All of the fraudulent mortgages resulted in foreclosures. As many as
12 lenders lost $7.6 million. Howard and Luong could potentially spend the rest of their lives in prison. Wire fraud carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 per count. Money laundering has a maximum penalty of 10 years and a $250,000 fine per count. “The real estate fraud perpetrated by the two defendants in this case not only impacts the victims who were caught up in the scheme, it also impacts the mortgage lending system, which ultimately effects everyone who is interested in home ownership,” U.S. Attorney John Walsh said in a statement.
Dam Road to close this weekend
The Army Corps of Engineers will close Cherry Creek Dam Road from 5 a.m. on Friday, July 12 until 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 14 for maintenance work. Motorists may use I-225 or Parker Road as alternate routes. For more information, contact Jennifer Jepson-Cook at Arapahoe County at 720-8746514.