Scratch

About this book

Golf fictions most beloved hustler The Greens Eddie Caminetti returns from self-imposed exile to turn the PGA Tour and the golf equipment industry on its ear. When Eddies former caddie "Fat Albert" Auberlain (a cross between Tiger Woods and John Daly) loses his PGA Tour card his endorsements and his composure after posting a twelve on a par three at the Fruit-of-the-Loom Waste Management Open Eddie finds the sad sack on his doorstep. Fat Albert in debt up to his eyeballs and with several needy relatives to feed had barely been eking out a living on Tour as it was and the pressure was threatening to make him implode altogether. Eddie takes pity on his protg but isnt quite sure what he can do when along comes nuclear physicist Norman Standish with the most revolutionary advance in golf equipment since the double niblick-a golf ball they call Scratch. If Standishs claims are true Eddie could make the killing of his strange and wonderful life and just possibly change the game forever. With McAllisters patented golf hustling hijinks roller-coaster plotting and laugh-out-loud skewering of pro sports hypocrisy Eddies die-hard fans and golf fiction aficionados will laugh all the way to the putting green. As Eddie himself puts it in The Foursome "Why do you think they call the devil Scratch?"