There have been loads of large winners final weekend.

• Martin Laird knocked in a 23-foot putt for birdie on the second playoff gap to win the Shriners Hospitals for Kids Open on Sunday, netting a verify of $1.26 million.

• Sei Younger Kim didn’t take her foot off the fuel one bit on Sunday, profitable her 11th LPGA victory and her first main within the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship, which earned her $654Ok.

• Tyrrell Hatton secured his first BMW PGA Championship title on Sunday, which can be his third Rolex Sequence win, and with that got here a prize of $1.15 million.

However the largest winner — or maybe essentially the most unbelievable — needed to be a gambler who, based on sportsbet.com.au, used a single greenback to web an enormous return on a 20-leg wager. Amongst these picked had been Hatton, Patrick Reed and Tommy Fleetwood.

The reward was $679,894.66.

Whereas others have hit it large, they’ve usually needed to put up large numbers, too. For instance, James Adducci, a 39-year-old self-described day dealer from Wisconsin, hauled in almost $1.2 million when Tiger Woods received the 2019 Masters.

Adducci described how he flew to Las Vegas earlier that month, took a bag he’d bought at Walmart full of $85,000 and made the guess. However that’s a a lot larger chunk of change.

A single greenback netting that form of return is particular, however in fact, playing and golf have an extended, fascinating historical past collectively.