Golf is Torres's outlet for relaxation as well as his exercise when Bon Jovi is on the road. 'Supposedly, after two years, a cigar loses some of its life. He typicallyįavors recent vintage smokes, but one year while playing in the Dunhill Pro-Am at Leopard Creek Country Club in South Africa, the club's founder, Johann Rupert, offered him a cigar from the 1950s. Like many golfers, Torres has found that cigars and golf go hand in hand. 'But when I haven't played for a while, it's more like a 15.'

'I started with a handicap of around 20 and brought it down to about a nine,' he says. He cranks his drive down the middle of the fairway, then lofts a 3-iron to within a club's length of the par-4 hole, putting to claim a birdie. The meal finished, he warms up at the course's driving range, then lights an Avo cigar as he heads for the first tee. I started playing for the sheer joy and creativity of it.' I don't mind walking into a room where nobody knows who I am. 'As the drummer, I get to watch the show and perform. 'I don't mind being in the background,' he says. Bon Jovi has sold 120 million albums and 34 million concert tickets in its 27 years, but Torres enjoys relative anonymity. He's a member of one of the rock world's bigger acts. It's a little strange when your son notices.' 'When I asked where he'd heard that, it turned out the neighbor's kids had told him. 'My son (six-year-old Hector) came to me the other day and said, 'Dad, you're famous,'' he says. Torres orders an omelet with ham and onions, bacon on the side. Compact and muscular, with neatly sculpted (and graying) sideburns and soul patch, dressed all in black ('because I'm a musician, and from hanging out with Gary Player'), Torres slides into a seat near a window, offering smiles and 'How are ya's?' to other members, who seem to take a certain protective pride in having a celebrity as a fellow regular at the club. He gets the same treatment from the staff as he walks through the club's main building and into the dining room. When he performs around the world as the drummer for the mega-rock band Bon Jovi, Tico Torres gets screams of adulation-but when he drives his Denali into the Admiral's Cove golf club near his home in Jupiter, Florida, the girl at the gate waves him through with a smile and a 'Hi, Mr.

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