CLIFTON JAMES “C.J.”
HOBGOOD

Clifton James "C.J." Hobgood was born on July 6, 1979. He and his twin brother, Damien  both competed in top-tier professional surfing events around the world. C.J. entered his first surfing contest in 1989 and made the Open Boys final. He placed second in a national competition the following year. He won several other championships and in 1998 he was selected as the model for the new National Scholastic Surfing Association logo. In 1999, CJ was the Association Surfer Professionals Rookie of the Year. Then C.J. immediately rose to the occasion in his rookie WCT season, making the finals in the year’s most treacherous conditions at the Gotcha Pro at Teahupoo, Tahiti, where many considered him the standout of the event. In 2001 he won the WSL World Championship. He currently resides in Satellite Beach, Florida. He won the 2007 US Open of Surfing and in 2008, he won the O'Neill World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach, part of the Van's Triple Crown of Surfing competition, in Hawaii.

This board is in the permanent SHACC collection, donated by Mark “Buggs” Arico/surfboardline.com.
Portrait photo © WSL