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Professional Gambler in the limelight (OT)

Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer
Date: Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 11:32 a.m.

In Response To: Professional Gambler in the limelight (OT) (Henrik Bukkjaer)

... His [Trevino] performance was good enough to garner the support of Martin Lettunich, a wealthy cotton farmer from El Paso, who secured a job for Trevino at El Paso's Horizon Hills Country Club.

In 1965 Lettunich and his buddies invited Raymond Floyd, a rising star on the PGA, to challenge a local player. As Sports Illustrated retold the now-legendary anecdote, "Floyd pulled into Horizon Hills in a white Cadillac, where he was met by a young Hispanic clubhouse boy, who retrieved Floyd's clubs from the trunk, escorted him to the locker room, and shined his shoes. 'Who am I playing today?' Floyd asked. 'You're talking to him,' Trevino replied." The two played three rounds, and with one hole left, Trevino was up by a stroke. Floyd saved himself from the embarrassment of losing by eagling the final hole to win by one. Packing up his clubs, Floyd told Trevino, "Adios. I've got easier games than this on the Tour." The two would meet again many times on the PGA and Champions Tours.

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Titanic Thompson (Alvin Thomas) often played his high stakes games with a pro as a caddie (and that has been reported often to be Lee Elder the first African-American to enter the Masters, collected 4 PGA Tour wins). When Titanic had beaten up his mark, he offer them a consolation bet: Double or nothing playing his caddie :-)

I've also read somewhere that Titanic carried around with him peanuts stuffed with led, and made bets that he could throw a peanut some unbelievable distance, over the club house etc.

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More at these links, the latter one talking about same people as Chuck referred to in his initial post:

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/The-Hustler_7580

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_3_53/ai_84351289/?tag=content;col1

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/All-Bets-Are-On_7140

http://www.worldgolf.com/column/las-vegas-golf-true-high-stakes-matches-6901.htm

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