Scratch

Eddie Caminetti #3

by Troon Mcallister

Golf fiction's most beloved hustler, The Green 's Eddie Caminetti, returns from self-imposed exile to turn the PGA Tour and the golf equipment industry on its ear.

When Eddie's 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 protégé but isn't 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 Standish's claims are true, Eddie could make the killing of his strange and wonderful life and just possibly change the game forever.

With McAllister's patented golf hustling hijinks, roller-coaster plotting, and laugh-out-loud skewering of pro sports hypocrisy, Eddie's 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 ?"

Genres: Fiction, Humor, Sports

320 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

Reviews

[Jay Tate · Rating 5 out of 5]

For the golfer in you, we have the finest of the first 3 Caminetti books. It's about more than golf, though. It's about marketing, and sports psychology, and gambling, and negotiating, and revenge.

The twist works, too.

I read this every year. It's an old standby.

Enjoy.

[Randi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Conniving golfers.....need I say more?

[Tresa Casaletto · Rating 3 out of 5]

The third in the Eddie Caminetti series is a bit dated. However, it is less crude and sexist than the second book, "The Foursome." If you enjoy stroke by stroke descriptions of match play, this is a good book for you.

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

First let me say and pardon the cliche...don't judge a book by its cover! This was a very cute book and I enjoyed it from beginning to end...the "she devil" on the cover may lead you to believe that the content may be questionable but this book really appealed to the golfer in me!

[J.C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eddie Caminetti is the best hustler to come around in a long time, and he does it on the golf course and to the golf world as a whole. You will never see golf the same way again.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Eddie Caminetti books just keep getting better

[Kaly Harward · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second best of the Eddie Caminetti books, and I am enjoying it as much the second time through as I did the first a few years ago.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun little book. Its a sports book, but don't let that hold you back. I don't golf and I still found it entertaining. The author telegraphs the ending a bit, but what the heck.

[Todd · Rating 4 out of 5]

third in the series... Eddie even hustled me this time around!

[Crista]

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