A good Golf Digest article describing the Deepdale incident:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_3_52/ai_70888710/Roberts, who turned 71 last May, once was among New England's better amateurs. But that was before his 1955 involvement in a $16,016.90 jackpot from a $45,000 auction at the elegant Deepdale Golf Club, then in Great Neck, N.Y. (When construction of the Long Island Expressway cut through the course the following year, the club moved to a site in nearby Manhasset.)
Then a 3-handicapper and a three-time club champion at The Orchards in South Hadley, Mass., Roberts was listed as a 17 on the Deepdale pairing sheet. His partner, Charles (Bud) Helmar, a 3 at the Franconia municipal course and the Springfield public-links champion, was listed as an 18 and played under the name of Richard Vitali, another member of The Orchards.
Roberts and Helmar, alias "Vitali," shot a net 58-57 for 115, winning by five strokes. Richard L. Armstrong, a New York bank executive, headed the syndicate that held the $16,016.90 ticket.
The scam is exposed Six weeks later, the scam was exposed by Lawrence Robinson, the golf writer for the now-defunct New York World Telegram & Sun, after Helmar, a carpet-factory worker in West Springfield, had confessed in a "conscience-stricken" letter to the Deepdale president, the late L. Dorland Doyle.