Henrik Stenson was arguably the best golfer in the world to never win a major prior to his dominating performance at The Open Championship over the weekend. Betting on him to break through and end the drought would not have been all that insane. But betting on Stenson to win the Open and Aaron Baddeley to win the Barbasol Championship would be just plain lunacy, right?
Tell that to the person who won more than $86,000 doing exactly that.
For whatever reason, a gambler in Australia decided to place $50 on Stenson winning the Open and Baddeley winning the Barbasol Championship this past weekend. He parlayed it, meaning both had to win for the bet to pay out. Here’s the slip:
Did u pick @henrikstenson to with The Open? @AaronBadds to win Barbasol? This guy did & parlayed them! @GolfChannel pic.twitter.com/NytBlQdpRA
— Luke Elvy (@Luke_Elvy) July 19, 2016
How? Why? Elvy told Golf Digest that the slip belongs to a “renowned” gambler in Australia. We don’t doubt that he is renowned, but he’s also pretty damn lucky.
We’ve seen gamblers win big bucks on insane parlays like this, but this one was almost more impressive. There’s only two teams squaring off in each leg of most parlays. These guys were taking on an entire field of golfers. Bravo, mysterious Australian gambling shark.
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