Background
Hamm grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and started his golf career as a caddy at the Raleigh Golf Association.
Hamm grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and started his golf career as a caddy at the Raleigh Golf Association.
He joined the United States. Navy in 1943. Following World World War II, he was employed at several golf clubs in the 1940s and early 1950s. These included New Bern Country Club in New Bern, North Carolina, in Pinehurst, North Carolina and in Mountain.
Airy, North Carolina.
Hamm qualified for the 1958 Professional Golf Association Championship and 1960 United States. Open. Hamm is best known as a golf course designer of courses in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and New New York
Since designing his first 9-hole course in 1949, he has designed and oversaw the building of over 60 courses. In 1955, Hamm helped build the Duke University Golf Course in Durham, North Carolina, with Robert Trent Jones.
He moved to Delaware to continue work with Jones, and then in 1959 moved back to Raleigh where he began his own design career.
Many of his notable courses are located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. this list may be incomplete 1966: Meadowbrook Country Club, Garner, North Carolina. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 1967, 1972: North Ridge Country Club, Raleigh, North Carolina 1971: Pineland Country Club, Mullins, South Carolina 1989: Beacon Ridge, Seven Lakes, North Carolina.
In 1954, he became a member of the Professional Golf Association of America.