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Golfing Con Man Arrested After His Mother's Funeral

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Crazy story of a guy that conned a lot of people by lying about his golfing background. Even sent emails to a college golf program posing as PGA Tour player Chris Riley.

http://thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2014/11/12/jeff-cochrans-con-over-arrested-wed-michigan-mothers-funeral-8742/

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In Sin City was also where Cochran met golf writer and talk shot host Dennis Silvers in 2009. Cochran and Silvers filmed a pilot for a golf TV show called “King of the Muni,” in which supposed good golfers would take on Cochran in an 18-hole, big-money competition. Cochran said he was a member of the PGA of America, had once obtained a European Tour card and had ties to current and former PGA Tour players. However, Silvers caught Cochran in enough lies to cut all ties with him. Cochran begged Silvers for the opportunity to reveal the real him — the same plea Cochran made to a phone call to me weeks after our first reporting a year ago — but Silvers wanted none of it. Cochran was off to Georgia.

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Before he left town, however, he stole thousands of dollars in myriad ways:

  • After a tornado struck Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011, Cochran approached Crosswinds about a special lesson package. The package would be 3 lessons for $300, with $200 of that going to charities to help the community. In total, the program netted $9,000-10,000, but none of that money went to charity.
  • Cochran got close to a player in the Savannah State program, according to a source, whose parents were rather wealthy. Cochran approached the player and his parents, saying he would agree to be the player’s coach on an exclusive basis in exchange for $10,000-$20,000 per year, paid in installments. The family had given Cochran some $10,000-$15,000 when they were contacted by Cochran purportedly from his wife’s home in Nebraska, where he said a terrible accident had happened to their home. He asked if the family could pay the next installment of $5,000 ahead of schedule so that he could use it to help with expenses. They refused.

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Nice guy.

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Bet he rolls it over in the rough, too!

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Nice guy.

Bet he rolls it over in the rough, too!

I heard he can hit a ball out of a foot of water ;-)

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This guy makes Dan (The Dan Plan) look like an angel.

It sounds like he is a pretty good golfer, though.

The two continued to remain friends, with the AD caddying for Cochran at the Michigan Open. Cochran was in position to win the tournament that June, but seemed to tank down the stretch. Had he won, people would look into his background. Eventually, Cochran and AD severed their relationship over lies Cochran was spreading relating to his family.

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[QUOTE name="boogielicious" url="/t/78131/golfing-con-man-arrested-after-his-mothers-funeral#post_1074907"]   Nice guy. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE name="David in FL" url="/t/78131/golfing-con-man-arrested-after-his-mothers-funeral#post_1074909"]   Bet he rolls it over in the rough, too! [/QUOTE] I heard he can hit a ball out of a foot of water ;-)

I got $10 sez he can't.

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