Chapter One: The Ace They Stole

She had come to interview Gu Lingfeng, but had captured the entire shot. “Do you have video?” Lu asked. “Swing to cup. Not a frame missing.” She smiled. “Congratulations.” Gu Lingfeng was not smiling. He took the ball and rubbed it with his thumb. A faint silver-gray powder stained his skin. Ten minutes later, alarms rang. Disciplinary director Ma Huicheng sealed the green with security officers. He removed a wafer-thin magnetic ring from the cup and found a packet of magnetic powder inside Lu Chen's golf bag. Surveillance showed Lu alone in the seventeenth-hole maintenance corridor seven minutes before the shot. The distant camera had gone black for the crucial eleven seconds.