Troy Lee Gentry: Will killing a tame bear help sell proposed new golf book?

Hunters around the globe, and in fact, in other galaxies, winced hard when a recent story came out on country singer Troy Lee Gentry, half of the country music duo Montgomery Gentry. It seems Gentry, in an effort to appear manly, decided to do something that would help make the world look down on him for the rest of eternity.

In Minnesota, Gentry was charged with killing a tame bear, then trying to make it look as if it was a hunting trophy killed in the wild. It was in Oct. 2004 that the alleged crime took place, when Gentry reportedly paid $4,650 to murder the caged bear - named “Cubby” - with a bow and arrow at the Minnesota Wildlife Connection in northern Minnesota. Gentry and the owner of the preserve then took the bear out, and made a videotape making it appear the bear was killed in the wild.

Gentry was arraigned in federal court, and if found guilty faces charges of five years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Now, if Gentry is found guilty of these charges, they are so heinous that they only reflect on him.

This isn’t the type of thing that would or should reflect poorly on hunters or country music and its fans or even the “Mongomery” part of the duo. No, this is a Troy Lee Gentry issue alone, and any and all scorn and punishment should be reserved for him.

Nonetheless, the attention this escapade has received should help out Gentry, with the reported upcoming release of his new book “How to Look Like a Manly Man and Break Par Every Single Time.”

Chapters Include:

Why Not Use a Tee on the Fairway?

Trouble with Your Long Irons? Try a Baseball Bat

Most Course Marshals are Old and Easy to Intimidate

Count Putts as a Third of a Stroke. Hell, You Barely Hit the Thing

Mulligans: Mandatory. Enough Said

A Shovel Makes a Great Sand Wedge

Kim Jong Il: Now There’s a Man Who Understands Golf

Pay a Playing Partner Enough, They’ll Verify Anything

and, of course:

Why Does Everyone Take the “One” Part of a “Hole in One” So Seriously?

Rumor has it that the book comes with a DVD entitled “How to Get Chicks the Troy Lee Gentry Way” which basically consists of the singer stepping on a bunch of eggs. Act now.

–WKW