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...armed golfers will soon step out of obscurity. Just days before next year's Ryder Cup in Louisville, Ky., the North American organization, which Gentry and a group of friends founded in 2000, will square off against Europe's best one-armers in a Cup-style match-play event. This inaugural Fightmaster Cup, named after Louisville resident Don Fightmaster, an Arnold Palmer of the one-armed-golf world, will be an official part of the Ryder Cup festivities...
...will not be some friendly freakfest. Tensions between the Americans and Brits are running high over the question of whether prostheses and other aids have a role in one-armed golf. So much trash talk has been exchanged that the Fightmaster Cup might prove more compelling than that two-armed Ryder Cup thing...
...thought Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson didn't get along? Baca, from New Mexico, and Hurtubise, from Quebec, will be teammates at next year's Cup-style event, so they're better off fighting the Euros than each other. They won't need much motivation: though the North American and British organizations share members and have worked amicably to launch the Fightmaster Cup, one American calls the Brits "snobs," while a British golfer who played in Las Vegas called the North American organization a "shambles...
Some North Americans are ticked that so-called assisted players cannot participate in the Fightmaster Cup. The North American organization has an assisted division in which golfers can use a prosthetic device or their damaged arm to support the club. The unassisted division outlaws all aids. The Society of One-Armed Golfers, founded in 1932 as an avenue of competition for World War I amputees, has never had an assisted division and probably never will. Tradition, you know. At the Fightmaster Cup, only the unassisted players will be allowed. "Not to be disrespectful, but this...
...matter how that dispute plays out, the one-armed event will enhance next year's Ryder Cup by offering some of the most uncommon golf in the world. Any bold predictions from the Brits? "If I did that, I would get shot," says Guy. As for the Americans, no handicap will hinder their hubris. "We're going to set an example right away for the [American] PGA Tour guys," says Alan Gentry, the North American co-founder. "They're going to have no other choice but to follow suit." That almost sounds like a guarantee. Says a smiling Gentry: "Absolutely...