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Eric Smith

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HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« on: March 27, 2009, 04:34:25 PM »
HamiltonBHearst
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Don't worry Dugger/Macwood, next time I am in Oregon I will not attempt to use you for access to Sandpines.


Saw this today on an older thread.  Looks to be his last post on gca.

Anybody know why he's gone? 

Who was he?  Deep throat? Aaron Spelling?  Who was Hammy Hearst?!

Since he's no longer with us, can/will his secret identity now be revealed?



George Pazin

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Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2009, 04:39:37 PM »
Some things are better left unsaid.
Big drivers and hot balls are the product of golf course design that rewards the hit one far then hit one high strategy.  Shinny showed everyone how to take care of this whole technology dilemma. - Pat Brockwell, 6/24/04

Anthony Gray

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2009, 04:41:10 PM »


   

TEPaul

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2009, 04:49:16 PM »
Many thought it was one of Pat Mucci's "personas" but within the last two months I put Patrick through over two hours of rigorous electric shock torture and he did not admit it was him so I think he's off the hook.

I would also like to know what happened to that ultra quack, pseudo-psychiatrist, Dr. Katz, who used to pop up on here from time to time to mediate extreme arguments and administer to people who began to virtually levitate over some GCA subject.

Anthony Gray

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2009, 04:59:01 PM »

  I don't know what he looks like but here is his MOM.

 

Mike_Cirba

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2009, 05:02:35 PM »
Hammy is/was not Patrick.

Who knows...he may.be around again sometime to put a can of whup_ass on some of us plebians when we get a little too big for our kmart britches.  ;D.

Kevin_Reilly

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Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2009, 05:09:54 PM »
Hammy was named in a thread once.  It must have been in the middle of a Merion-style thread (lots of action), because it went unnoticed among the readership.

I was waiting for HBH to appear in the thread about changing shoes in a parking lot...I was curious to hear about the rules at his clubs.
"GOLF COURSES SHOULD BE ENJOYED RATHER THAN RATED" - Tom Watson

brad_miller

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Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2009, 05:20:01 PM »
I once saw Hammy changing his shoes in the parking lot at NGLA, but then again it was late November after the locker room had closed for the season.

Mike_Cirba

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2009, 05:22:08 PM »
At Hammy;s clubs, members don't change their own shoes.

Mike_Cirba

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2009, 05:25:18 PM »
Their grateful guests do it for them...  ;)

brad_miller

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Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2009, 05:28:55 PM »
Mike,

Given the current economy and where it is headed given the outlook for the current budget and the huge shortfall (much greater than expected/much slower economic growth) we will have in revenues to support it I suspect someone like Hammy with a mixture of old school clubs and a few new gems has gotten out of all the clubs with $25-30,000 of annual dues.

Mike_Cirba

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2009, 05:33:45 PM »
Brad,

That's surprising...

I had always just assumed that Hammy was the financial Angel behind the scenes keeping some of those old_line clubs afloat!

brad_miller

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Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2009, 05:35:03 PM »
Mike,

Bet he kept all the old clubs and got out of all the new.

Mike_Cirba

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2009, 05:38:00 PM »
Brad,

Yes...that sounds much better.

Probably biding his time counting coinage as he waits for the coming Jindal tsunami.  ;)

Mike Benham

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Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2009, 06:49:51 PM »
Don't forget that he is a well-traveled yachtsman and no, that is not his trophy wife. 

Rumor has it has a stable of young dock hands to change from his Topsiders to golf shoes ...

"... and I liked the guy ..."

Eric Smith

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Anthony Gray

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2009, 07:57:06 PM »


  I think he got hit by the big PONZI.



Michael Dugger

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Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2009, 08:13:04 PM »
I much preferred Tuco Ramirez myself....
What does it matter if the poor player can putt all the way from tee to green, provided that he has to zigzag so frequently that he takes six or seven putts to reach it?     --Alistair Mackenzie--

Mark Bourgeois

Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2009, 08:29:07 PM »
I much preferred Tuco Ramirez myself....

Known as the Rat...

Wayne_Kozun

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Re: HamiltonBHearst - GCA's Man of Mystery
« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2009, 10:56:21 PM »
  I think he got hit by the big PONZI.
Perhaps HBH was none other than Bernard Madoff? 

Has anyone ever seen the two of them together at the same time? 

I didn't think so.