No. Way.

What surprises me more than her lying is the number of people that fall all over themselves to buy into this crap. A societal sickness in my view.

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EDIT: For the record, the line above is in reference to the Gagne story on Golf Digest. But I don't believe this kid's (dad's) story either. As the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

 

Of course not. Why would you? After all, it's not like your kid just (allegedly) sank three aces.

Fuckin' liars.

 

That sort of happened to me, my only witness was my wife. Of course, when I tell people this they think I'm full of it. What makes the story more crazy is the hole I had my ace is where my parents built their retirement home.

 

Bull-bleeping-shit.

 

I don't believe it for a second either, but what motive could they have for lying?

 

Kindred, honestly, what a freaking fantastic story. Baffling reporting, tremendous pacing and a hell of a punch line.

Wow. I hate, hate, hate golf, but that was a hell of a story.

O'course, with a bat-shit crazy woman like Gagne, take away some points...

 

I know it’s not the same, but there was this one night, just one night, where I smoked every single person that dared step up to the pool table with me. I never play, so I’m not that good, but for some reason this one particular night, my good luck was just endless. It was like I could see every single play before I even made the shot. When I’d take the shot it was like BAM, the ball went exactly where I wanted it to.

Now this hasn’t happened again since then, and I’ve played probably six or so times in the couple of years since, but that one night I was totally on fire. Maybe this kid had a game kind of like my night, where he was just on fire and there was no stopping him. True, the odds of having a game like that are slim, but if I can beat every person I play in a single night of pool, then I believe just about anything can happen.

 

The attention they've already received?

 

This was a brilliant evisceration by Kindred. Note he doesn't exactly call her a liar, but lets the facts do it for him. Masterful piece of writing.

I remember Larry Bohannan, the excellent golf writer of the Desert Sun, telling me this story in August. My first words to him were "Are you kidding? There's no effin' way..." He said "That's what I thought, but I talked to a bunch of people who have corroborated it..." Yet, he still was really skeptical about it.

 

WAY!

I'm sorry. I thought this thread was referring to Waynes World.