Drive for show, putt for dough

In 1958, Leon Crump took a week off from his job as a machinist to play golf with a group of gamblers. At escalating stakes, he shot the lights out, won $31,000, and he still hasn't gone back to work. For nearly four decades, he has golfed his way around the Southeast, winning, and even sometimes losing, small fortunes along the way. All in all, he has survived to carve out a legend as America's preeminent golf hustler - a man some of his opponents have called "the. Greatest golfer never to play the PGA Tour." This book blends a deadpan memoir of a brilliant career with guidelines on how gambling golfers might thrive in their own weekend wars. Readers will find tips on psyching oneself up, on how and when to bet, and on how to stay cool under pressure; they'll learn how to "doctor" clubs, how to drive golf balls out from under Dixie cups, and how to add a dash of "hustle" to their own games. Leon Crump's fresh, offbeat approach to. Golf will score an ace with anyone who's ever wondered about - or wandered into - golf's wilder side.