So I’m drunk and we’re all drinking and I bet 550 thousand dollars on this. I bet them that if they gave me a year, I could shoot 80 from the back tees there. I can’t hit a driver more than 230, so I don’t hit any of the greens from back there. The back tees at TPC Summerlin is about 7,000 yards.

Negreanu only had one year to transform his game, and he won the bet with just a few days to spare. Negreanu said he bet $550,000 that he could shoot a score of 80 from the back tees at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, a PGA Tour-level course that hosts the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. One of Negreanu’s bets required him to play 12 hours of golf a day just for a chance at a major payout. Negreanu said he picked up golf in his early thirties, and eventually began gambling on the course for very high stakes. Poker superstar Daniel Negreanu joined the No Laying Up podcast and shared a few ridiculous stories about golf wagers he’s made over the years, and his on-course battles with fellow poker legend Phil Ivey.

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