Wanna Bet?: The Greatest True Stories About Gambling on Golf, from Titanic Thompson to Tiger Woods
Golf and gambling go together like irons and woods, caddies and bags, feet and Foot-Joys. Nobody knows how to make the side action sizzle like golfers — and nobody knows golf like beloved author and longtime Golf Digest editor Don Wade. In his new book, the author of the best-selling "And Then Jack Said to Arnie . . ." series and Talking on Tour presents the greatest anecdotes and stories about gambling on golf, featuring yarns from today's PGA Tour to tales about celebrity money matches to...
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Golf and gambling go together like irons and woods, caddies and bags, feet and Foot-Joys. Nobody knows how to make the side action sizzle like golfers — and nobody knows golf like beloved author and longtime Golf Digest editor Don Wade.In his new book, the author of the best-selling “And Then Jack Said to Arnie . . .” series and Talking on Tour presents the greatest anecdotes and stories about gambling on golf, featuring yarns from today’s PGA Tour to tales about celebrity money matches to classic hustling stories from the game’s glory days. Ever hear about the time Babe Ruth played Ty Cobb in an epic, 54-hole, three-state match? Or the time JFK resorted to presidential “persuasion” to win a golf bet? And who was it that quipped, when asked about the pressure of playing high stakes golf on the PGA Tour, “This isn’t pressure. Real pressure is playing for $10 when you don’t have a dime in your pocket”?Filled with short anecdotes and tall tales, Wanna Bet? is the ideal gift for any golfer who’s ever stood over a four-foot putt to lose his shirt or win all the skins.
AcknowledgmentsxiPrefacexiiiAmy Alcott1Tommy Armour4Seve Ballesteros7Al Besselink9Tommy Bolt11The Boys14Harry Bradshaw17Mark Calcavecchia19Calcuttas21Winston Churchill29Bill Clinton31Fred Couples34Bing Crosby36Bernard Darwin39Leo Diegel41Dwight D. Eisenhower42Joe Ezar44Brad Faxon46Dick Fisher48Whitey Ford50Foreign Affairs52Bob Goalby58Jason Gore60Walter Hagen63E. J. "Dutch" Harrison67Clayton Heafner69Ben Hogan71Husbands and Wives78Bobby Jones79John F. Kennedy85Peter Kessler87Lawson Little88Joe Louis90George Low92Dave Marr94Charles Blair Macdonald96The Masters98Phil Mickelson99Dr. Cary Middlecoff102Byron Nelson104Jack Nicklaus107Moe Norman117Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill119Arnold Palmer123Pine Valley130Gary Player131Nick Price134Clifford Roberts136Bob Rosburg137Paul Runyan139Babe Ruth141Doug Sanders145Gene Sarazen148Shell's Wonderful World of Golf150Vijay Singh151Al Smith153Walker B. Smith154Sam Snead155Lefty Stackhouse173T. Suffern Tailer175Temper, Temper178Titanic Thompson181Jim Thorpe188Joe Torre194Lee Trevino197Gene Tunney204Harry Vardon206Ken Venturi209Tom Watson213Mike Weir215Tom Weiskopf217Tiger Woods219Babe Zaharias223A Few Golf Gambling Terms You Should Know226
