Another Evel anecdote-
Guy I know is a golf pro. Not a terribly good one, when I met him he was working as a club maker at Golfsmith. But he was a pretty decent player who wasn't good enough to tour or bright enough to be much of a teaching or club pro. Once he and his wife are in Vegas, she's at a conference. So he goes to some course and asks if they have room for a single and mentions that he's a pretty good player. The head pro asks what his handicap is and if he's interested in playing for some high stakes. Guy says, "well, I'm a professional, so I don't have a handicap, and it depends on what you mean by high stakes. I'll play for a couple hundred bucks but that's all I can afford"
Pro says "I've got a regular who is missing his usual partner today, but this group plays for some real money. Lets see what they say." They go out to the putting green, and its Evel. Of course he was known for playing for thousands per hole, so my friend tells him right off, "this might not be the game for me."
Evel says, "you say you are a good player, I'll believe you. I'll cover it if we lose and we split what we win."
They won about 5 grand and afterwards Evel took this guy and his wife out to dinner. He said Evel was the nicest guy in the world, but who knows how that would have gone had he played badly.
