Drive for Show, Putt for Dough: Memoirs of a Golf Hustler

by Leon Crump

Book Overview

In 1958, Leon Crump took a week off from his job to play golf, fell in with a group of gamblers and won $1,300. He hasn't gone back to work since. For almost 40 years now, he's been golfing his way around the South in a renegade career filled with rollercoaster highs and lows. On his best day, he's won a years salary; his worst set him back almost that much.

Filled with high drama and deadpan humor, this compulsively readable book tells how Crump...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062701711
• ISBN13: 9780062701718
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent read

Maybe I am partial to Leon Crump since I grew up watching him play in Charlotte. I witnessed many of the things discussed in this book and a lot that was not.

Hilarious!

This book is the autobiography of a golf hustler. Crump criss-crossed the country for decades bilking all sorts of people out of money with wacky bets and crazy schemes. At the end of the book is a guide to many different gambling games to play on the course. You won't find any tips to improve your game, but you will be entertained!

A fun read

Leon Crump's Drive for Show Putt for Dough was a truly enjoyable read. This book lets every golfer see what it is like to be the best golf hustler ever born. As with most memoirs the writing style wouldn't knock the socks off your high school english teacher, but, unlike most memoirs, they isn't a boring page in the whole book. Definately a recommended book to buy.