Brad Hammock

[T.Hizzle]

Does he still play?

[mudslinger]

pdga site says he's not current...

[jtreadwell]

Who is he?

[Connor Jones]

You don't want to know.

[Cgkdisc]

Hard to see him in a crowd...

[Thumber]

You don't want to know.

Wasn't he in a video a few years back throwing a hissy fit and storming off the course?

[heartman]

Yeah he still plays. I'm guessing he just hasn't played in a tourney yet this year??? (seems strange though since it's May ...)

[SteezeOG]

Is there not the google in trollville? You know damn well you been scouring that pdga site for crap you can post so you know you could find if a player is active or not there.

[EagleZT]

If I think I know who your talking about he plays the Saturday Dubs at Alexander in Lawrenceville, GA sometimes.

[mudslinger]

Is there not the google in trollville? You know damn well you been scouring that pdga site for crap you can post so you know you could find if a player is active or not there.

guess we're just not as smart as you are...

[T.Hizzle]

Is there not the google in trollville? You know damn well you been scouring that pdga site for crap you can post so you know you could find if a player is active or not there.

Sir, I do NOT visit the pDGA website. I get all my info. from others. Now I have to figure out how to stop that stupid newletter that I delete everytime it gets emailed to me.

[SteezeOG]

guess we're just not as smart as you are...

obviously. Hey you got some of fizzle on your chin.

[cmcolomb]

Hard to see him in a crowd...

baaaazzzziiiingo

[T.Hizzle]

obviously. Hey you got some of fizzle on your chin.

SteeveOG, where I was originally going with this was............. Will Brad Hammock be able to stay a Top Masters player now that Barry and Ken have started to play in the Master divison?

[mudslinger]

SteeveOG, where I was originally going with this was............. Will Brad Hammock be able to stay a Top Masters player now that Barry and Ken have started to play in the Master divison?

No. he'll have to wait until he's a grandmaster to avoid kenny and barry, at least for some time.

[Cgkdisc]

He'll still beat Kenny and Barry in stick golf.

[T.Hizzle]

He'll still beat Kenny and Barry in stick golf.

Didn't know he was a bolfer. What's his handicap?

[Cgkdisc]

It was single digits last I heard. I know that he and Ken have had ball golf battles including some other pros but not sure who else.

[mudslinger]

Didn't know he was a bolfer. What's his handicap?

bestside bubba, who else is a frolf/bolf double threat?

[unclemercy]

if i wasnt as lazy id find the photo i have of hammock sitting in front of yeti at usdgc where they are both in cap chairs only brads is a kids model.

[Rip Van]

Based on last season's SNPC, I'm sure a Southern (Nationals) man don't need him around, anyhow.

[NOSteveLA]

Doubting he plays ANY Southern National Tourneys again

[Amadeus]

This guy...looks like a velociraptor giving birth right before he makes a putt....but whatever works...lol

[Connor Jones]

Doubting he plays ANY Southern National Tourneys again

Oh drat.

[DutchViking]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sipkJUvsIuA
Brad Hammock shows up at 4minutes 20seconds

[TorreyLaffoon]

He's a Capricorn. Like Tiger Woods.

[optidiscic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_kdnTVbGeY

[Chiefstang]

SteeveOG, where I was originally going with this was............. Will Brad Hammock be able to stay a Top Masters player now that Barry and Ken have started to play in the Master divison?

Kenny won't play Majors anymore, 'cause he's a smoker and the PDGA is a bunch of squares... Shhh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_kdnTVbGeY

What a strange egg... Doesn't watch his shot at all, throws like Barkley drives, but runs with the champ.

[Nuke]

http://www.sugamonster.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/gollum.jpg

[Lewis]

Hammock still plays, and he's fun to watch, if for no other reason than that his form is so quirky.

[prerube]

Didn't know he was a bolfer. What's his handicap?

Emotional disorders.

[RichMeade]

Word on the street here in the ATL is that Hammock has retired from disc golf...
Doesn't even come out to dubs...

Supposedly he's gone back to ball golf

[T.Hizzle]

Word on the street here in the ATL is that Hammock has retired from disc golf...
Doesn't even come out to dubs...

Supposedly he's gone back to ball golf

That's too bad. It would have been fun to see Climo get beat by a guy half his height.

[Smigles]

bestside bubba, who else is a frolf/bolf double threat?

Since when is Bubba a discgolf threat ?

ps : frolf :wall:

[Giv'r]

He's a Capricorn. Like Tiger Woods.

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[Shipley]

Hammock used to be sponsored by Innova, but he had a meltdown during worlds a few years back. Innova dropped him after that.

[Dfwdscglfr]

why the meltdown and what did it consist of

[heartman]

Word on the street here in the ATL is that Hammock has retired from disc golf...
Doesn't even come out to dubs...

Supposedly he's gone back to ball golf

Saw that on discgolfatlanta.com as well the other day ...

[dandaman]

why the meltdown and what did it consist of


Nockamixion. It was a pretty rough course for World's (I don't think it had been in long).

That's too bad. It would have been fun to see Climo get beat by a guy half his height.

I believe Brad and Kenny were partners in one of the Major Doubles Championships a few years back. Brad can hang with Kenny.


Hammock still plays, and he's fun to watch, if for no other reason than that his form is so quirky.

For routine, he is the most consistent golfer that I have seen play. He approaches nearly every shot the same.

I've known and have played sporadic rounds with him for over 10 years. He is an amazing golfer and has always been cordial with me.

[mattdabbs]

From the little I have seen Brad play he seems like a standup guy. We can't let one moment in time tarnish someone forever. We all have our tough moments.

[NOSteveLA]

From the little I have seen Brad play he seems like a standup guy. We can't let one moment in time tarnish someone forever. We all have our tough moments.

Yeah about that one moment, which are you referring to?
The one last year at the SNPC? Thats just outright thievery.
His Meltdown at Worlds? Thats just chilidish.

Please..do explain

[mattdabbs]

Yeah about that one moment, which are you referring to?
The one last year at the SNPC? Thats just outright thievery.
His Meltdown at Worlds? Thats just chilidish.

Please..do explain

Why don't you or anyone else here talk about their two or three most publicly humiliating moments? Let's see who is still hold stones after we take a good look at ourselves before throwing stones at others. That is all I am saying.

[NOSteveLA]

September 2002 My girlfriend slept with my co worker, half the place knew for months
April 1996- I was arrested for public intoxication and resisting arrest
July 1984- I was hit by a baseball during a game playing second base, broke my nose cried like a baby.

Feel better?

[craftsman]

Matt, im unsure if you know about the sn thing.
Meltdowns happen to the best of us, especially when the stakes and self expectations are high.
From what i gather, the sn stuff is about integrety, a completely different beast.

[mattdabbs]

September 2002 My girlfriend slept with my co worker, half the place knew for months
April 1996- I was arrested for public intoxication and resisting arrest
July 1984- I was hit by a baseball during a game playing second base, broke my nose cried like a baby.

Feel better?

So how would you like it if we had all those moments on tape and broadcast them to the world and then watched the conversation of people talking bad about you emerge? That would be terrible. None of us would like that to happen to us or wish it on anyone else. So why do it to Brad or anyone else for that matter.

[mattdabbs]

Matt, im unsure if you know about the sn thing.
Meltdowns happen to the best of us, especially when the stakes and self expectations are high.
From what i gather, the sn stuff is about integrety, a completely different beast.

I still don't think we should sit here and blast the guy. Has he changed? Did he feel terrible about it? Who knows...I just don't think it justifies talking badly about someone few of us even know.

[jobwilson]

The one last year at the SNPC? Thats just outright thievery.


Not all of us are hip to what's happening with the Shirts-Off, Let's Get Blasted series. What did he do?

[craftsman]

I still don't think we should sit here and blast the guy. Has he changed? Did he feel terrible about it? Who knows...I just don't think it justifies talking badly about someone few of us even know.

I agree, but questionable incidents happen, i like to have decent enough info to make a opionion.

I feel people are actually being polite and dancing around it (so far) for this being the internet.

[aPfaff]

I feel like no one has quite answered his question with evidence.

[NOSteveLA]

Brad Hammock won last years SNPC Masters Division, without having any SN points.
Meaning he didnt qualify to play in the tourney, played anyway and won $1000.
After it was proven he did not deserve said cash he was asked to return it, he refused.
He took advantage of folks, lied and then cheated everyone else in his division.

Just google SNPC/Brad Hammock resolution for more info

[biscoe]

how is his being allowed to play not the td's fault?

[aPfaff]

So let me get this straight. He didn't qualify for an event. He lied about points for SN (which should have been monitored by the TD or BOD). He won the event (1000 bucks). Then after he won and THEY GAVE HIM THE MONEY they realized their mistake and wanted him to give it back, but he said no!

I'm not saying it's just the TD's fault but COME ON!

[ZAMson]

I feel people are actually being polite and dancing around it (so far) for this being the internet.
the guy has a fraudulent World title

[biscoe]

the guy has a fraudulent World title

how so?

[Three Putt]

how is his being allowed to play not the td's fault?It really was a comedy of errors. The TD didn't check to see if players had points. They knew about the problem with Brad Saturday after the first round, but they decided it was a "board decision." Anybody who has worked with a board knows that making something a board decision makes it five times more complicated than it needs to be. The board drug their feet trying to decide what to do and hung the TD out to dry with no resolution on Sunday. They did a smart thing in not giving him the check after the event, but then it took the board until the Friday after the event to decide that they were going to DQ him. In the meantime the TD got frustrated waiting and sent Brad the check, negating the one smart thing they had done. So there is a lot of blame to go around for the whole mess, and not all of it lands on Brad.

[Three Putt]

Also, there was a lot of time wasted trying to figure out if Brad had or had not played in an SN event that year. The fact that no one from SN seemed to know or have a record that showed one way or the other is kinda comical.

[Pwingles]

sounds about as well run and organized as the Bluebird Series...

[Lewis]

The above is more or less the story I heard. I've also heard through the grapevine that the TD in whose event BH claimed to have played in to qualify is sure that he did not register for or play the event, and told the SN management in no uncertain terms when they asked him. But it was already too late.

If it's true that he has retired from disc golf, it may well have been a good decision. He always seemed like a friendly guy on the occasions when I met him, and I would not expect anyone to quit so suddenly after so long, but I can understand it if he decided to walk away from a sport that brought out his dark side and surrounded him with scandal.

[ZAMson]

re: Hammock's fraudulent 06 Pro Masters world title
how so?
had another player seconded a call on his behavior described below, he would've been stroked and likely DQ'd after the round. by the rulebook, he should have been DQ'd from 06 Worlds. the story as told to me by someone on brad's card was that only he called the infraction -- the other two players were more interested in not rocking the boat and they refused to second the call.

written by a different dude on his card during the incident: (http://www.sndg.org/forum/read.php?2,84643,84802)

"Brad, the self-proclaimed "Georgia Birdie Machine", fellow Capricorn to Tiger, the one who plays well when Tiger plays well (all excerpts from his "speech"), had a bad break on Hole 16 at Lake Olmstead on Thursday. His drive hit the basket, and then rolled about 200 feet OB into the lake. He settled for a 5. There was a two-group backup on Hole 17 and a steep hill to walk down to get to the tee. On a manhole cover adjacent to the trail, a stone cairn was erected, presumably by people hiking to 17's teepad. Brad took several vicious kicks to destory the cairn, and then proceeded to cuss at everyone who pointed out his behaviour, spreading FUs for all. He called one golfer a "fa---t" and threatened to kick him in the b#lls. It was a shameful display of immaturity.

Discussions ensued immediately with Brian Graham, and a "formal" discussion was held after the round. Brad claimed that he "stumbled" into the rocks and "accidentally" knocked them over. Along with about 20 others, I saw what really happened (no stumbling). A one stroke penalty could have been @#$%&, but consider this: On Wednesday, an open division player landed behind the cairn and was forced to throw around it, thus making this cairn an obstacle and part of the course. Willful destruction of the course is grounds for immediate DQ.

Brad was warned that his next outbreak would get him booted, and I played several subsequent rounds with the "nice" Brad, whose only negative comment was to ask me to "Not ask him stupid questions on the teepad", his response to my efforts to be friendly. It shows that Brad can act acceptably, and does not have to be a jerk. He is a great player, but has terrible sportsmanship. He did not even thank his sponsor during his speech. In Brad's own words, "Winning all the time is bittersweet". I personally would rather finish last, with pride, than first with none."

[JTacoma03]

Why don't you or anyone else here talk about their two or three most publicly humiliating moments? Let's see who is still hold stones after we take a good look at ourselves before throwing stones at others. That is all I am saying.

It'd be different if you were defending an Am player...but the dude is a professional and world champion. If you do any particular activity at an elite level your actions when performing that activity are subject to scrutiny and discussion.

It's not like we're talking about Tiger Woods and his personal life here...we're talking about stuff that Brad has done ON THE GOLF COURSE and they're not isolated incidents. He got into it with several people at this past Worlds in Santa Cruz as well, including a tour official.

[chris deitzel]

He should have been suspended for life at that Worlds!!!

One of a very few over 19 years of playing this game that left a bad taste in my mouth.

[optidiscic]

The 2005 Worlds blow up at Nockamixon is said to have been rather amazing, excessive and prolonged in it's duration......supposedly it was after blowing up on hole 18. Those trees and Rocks are still there......I don't think he could kick those boulders anywhere :) I wish I had seen it

The only time I ever saw Brad in person he was friendly.....it was at the Skylands at Blue Mtn NT....yeah the one where Nikko missed a 10 foot putt to lose the tourney

[grodney]

Before the "kicking over the stones" tirade, Hammock was known as the guy that went out the night before a tournament and did some unauthorized trimming of branch/branches/trees he didn't like.

I can't find any old references, but it was discussed on ning.com in March of this year. Just google for [brad hammock altered secretly] without the brackets, or maybe this link will work:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CF4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdiscgolfer.ning.com%2Fforum%2Ftop ics%2Fhas-anyone-ever-caught-someone-destroying-vandalizing-a-disc-golf%2FshowLastReply&ei=hRyoT4O0BemY6AHR0sngDA&usg=AFQjCNFyGAR68d3vHL_o709lamiISvqHJA&sig2=4SS_KCaiPsUc7ikoKK9DxQ

[Pwingles]

Someone should tell him that he throws funny

[Chiefstang]

Someone should tell him that he throws funny

Reps, bro.