Mike duffy, all of these years, and how could I forget about Torosay?
Torosay was actually a term the fellow in mention came up with regarding his ancestral roots. His name was actuallly James Dudgeon if I remember right.
Anyway, from the
Now It Can Be Told department, Mr. Dudgeon fancied himself as a golf course middleman, seeking people out who wanted to develop their monies and properties into golf courses. He boasted of experience and actual properties, which of course no one ever had heard of. He also disagreed with anyone and everyone on the GolfWeb architecture discussion site, claiming that we were clueless and that he knew more about golf architecture and history then all of us combined (Or something like that)
One day while feeling cantankerous and out of work, I came up with a ficitional character--an Italian lettuce farmer who had a keen interest to make his productive farm fields into a 18 hole golf course. ("Eyza wanna go inta da golfa coursa bizaness!") Setting up a ficitional email account on a friend's AOL account, using his business fax number, but never really ever letting him have my phone number.
He literally wouldn't leave me alone!
He sent things in the mail, promised all sorts of earnings, even brought in Jack Nicklaus's name into the scheme of things to intice further interest as a possible architect. He wanted a check to draw-up feasability studies!
Finally, the boat tipped over for our Torosay.
From a source, who will go unmentioned here since he had happened upon him in a bizarre business dealing--was jailed for fraud, and he had managed to get quite a substantial amount of money out of the poor victim.
We have never heard from him again--thankfully!