This is about golfer Roger Maltbie:
And behind this curtain, we have the new switch-putter, as demonstrated by Roger Maltbie. When the ball breaks right to left, he does it right-handed. When the ball breaks left to right, he does it left-handed.
”And when I happen to do them both on the same hole,” he says, ”the gallery figures I`m drunk.”
That is not an unthinkable thought concerning Maltbie, one of the delightful free spirits on a fairly buttoned-down PGA Tour. In 1975, as a rookie professional, he wins the Quad Cities Open and Pleasant Valley Classic back-to-back. He adjourns to a watering hole, T.O. Flynn`s in nearby Worcester, Mass., with the intent to celebrate. He does not disappoint himself.
”I must have had a helluva good time,” Maltbie says. ”I woke up the next morning with nothing in my pockets. Nothing. Not even the $40,000 check I got for winning the tournament. I called the bar and asked them, while they were sweeping up, did they happen to find a $40,000 check? They did, and they framed it. The sponsors issued me another one. That`s life.”