Craig,
That would be incorrect. It was Mike Golden who did all of that. Mike Erdmann took over for me when I came over to here. This is they way it sort of came and went.
--Huckaby, Huntely and others were on alt.golf and The Grillroom.
--iGolf.com was the another original GCA site, that sort of captured a lot of the in-the-business guys and of course, our beloved original Golfweb site, which great thanks goes to Dan King. Dan was THE MAN.
--When CBS Sportsline bought Golfweb, it became this horrible site that none of us felt comfortable, nor liked. We soon vacated for greener pastures when I found a 17 year-old kid who happened to be trying to build a web discussion empire out of the State of Washington. I can't seem to remember his name now, but we were there like four to six months with constant downtime. WE NEEDED OUR FIX! So, Mike Golden and I were on the phone and he basically set-up Bravenet and attached the name--if I remember right, Kevin was the winner when we asked our group what a good name would be, thus became TraditionalGolf.com.
--We grew, and then eventually one day John V and I were talking and he told me to take a look at this website these two brothers that he knew of had started. The first post I made was when Ted Sturges dissed (jokingly) some English-born Scottish golf architect named MacKenzie and it was almost instantly all of us started getting along pretty good.
Unbeknown to me, Geoff Shackelford knew of the Morrissett Brothers site also, and we agreed that it was seemingly a better environment. Like 6 weeks later, one of the Brothers Morrissett--the very odd one--who happened to live down in Australia, was flying to go see his family in Virginia and was going to spend a day or two in LA. This set-up an El Cholo visit with Geoff, The Very Odd But Likable Morrissett Brother, Eric and myself and we all just more or less got along. By this time GCA was moving along pretty quickly discussion group and profile wise. Ran and I more or less talked and agreed to tell them over at the other discussion group, we're going here now, you better be ready for a whole new group of whackos..."
That next day I more or less announced to everyone that I was now going to concentrate all my time over here and gave the link. I gave Mike Erdmann the keys to Traditional Golf.com and the rest you can say is history....