This is the typical profile of the Greater Bangor Open player: He’s a big hitter in his 20s or 30s who dreams of one day making it to the PGA Tour.

There are also a few guys out there like 37-year-old Jeff Grygiel who have gotten a taste of the big time and want to get back.

“Why am I going back to Tour School?” echoed Grygiel, who last attended and passed the PGA Tour qualifier in 1986 and, after a seven-year hiatus, plans to return this fall.

“When I made it in ’86, I made 16 cuts as a rookie and I made $36,000,” Grygiel explained, after carding a 67 in Thursday’s opening round of the 28th GBO. “I punched up the events I played in ’86 on the computer and I found out if I did the exact same thing in 1993, I would have made $297,000… That’s why I’m going back.”

So we have young wannabes and not-so-young wannanother chancers pacing around Bangor Muni in pursuit of the $10,000 winner’s check, the better to finance chasing their dream.

Then there’s Bob Shave.

If ever there was a bassackward profile of a GBO player, Shave is it.

First, Shave is 57 years old, which means he was playing scratch golf before a sizeable chunk of the players in this year’s GBO field were born. But Shave wasn’t just playing golf. He was playing in the big show, with Arnie and Jack.

“I played on the PGA Tour from 1960 through 1967,” Shave confirmed, prior to his round Thursday. “I never won a tournament, but I did okay.”

Shave’s story is what the young GBO turks wish had happened to them.

The son of a club pro in Willoughby, Ohio, Shave was a natural talent who went on to play golf at Florida State University. Shave was so good that in the middle of exams as a graduate student at FSU, he drove to Memphis, Tenn., and qualified for the Memphis Open. He led his first PGA event for three rounds before blowing the lead with 12 holes to play.

Shortly after, Shave qualified for the 1960 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills outside Denver. It was won by Arnold Palmer in a memorable final-round charge.

“I remember I was one shot ahead of Palmer going into the last round. I wasn’t leading but I was in the hunt. I took a double (bogey) and a triple on eight and nine. I shot 43-34,” recalled Shave, whose best PGA finish was fourth at the Canadian Open.

Shave appeared to be on the way to a promising career, but in those days PGA Tour money was a fraction of today’s purses.

Married, with three children, Shave spent the next six years alternately traveling the country qualifying for PGA Tour events and completing his graduate work in parks and recreation management. It was not a lifestyle conducive to success on the tour. Fate seemed to agree.

Shave’s career on the PGA Tour came to an abrupt end, thanks to a rule change.

“I was a croquet-style putter,” Shave explained. “I swung the putter between my legs. I invented a club I called `The Last Straw.’ It was a putter. The head was a solid pound of brass, a rectangle around three inches by four inches with the shaft stuck right in the middle. I could just draw it back and the brass did all the work.”

Croquet-style putting was outlawed effective Jan. 1, 1968. Shave tried to keep playing after that by adopting a traditional putting style, but his game was crippled.

“I remember I was at the Cleveland Open qualifier,” he said. “It took a 71 to qualify. I was on the 18th green, 15 feet away, and I needed to three-putt to qualify. I four-putted.”

After his competitive career had ended, Shave worked as a club pro in Miami before eventually becoming the golf coach at Florida International University. He remained the coach at FIU for 17 years before retiring in 1990.

So why is Shave at the GBO, using a conventional hickory shafted putter?

“I decided I want to try and play competitively again. I don’t care where. I played here twice before. I love playing here,” came the reply.

Who knows? If Shave does well, he might not be so different from the young GBO turks after all. There’s this thing called the Senior PGA Tour.