Pokerati » Golf Digest http://pokerati.com Texas Hold'em and WSOP Poker Blog with Las Vegas PLO Sat, 26 May 2012 13:06:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Poker Players Like to GolfBig bucks for every hole http://pokerati.com/2009/12/poker-players-like-to-golfbig-bucks-for-every-hole/ http://pokerati.com/2009/12/poker-players-like-to-golfbig-bucks-for-every-hole/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:06:36 +0000 Dan Michalski http://pokerati.com/?p=14361 This shoulda gone up about two-and-a-half months ago … but hey, we were busy with the November Nine and Tiger Woods was busy banging every chick in Vegas who ever said “call me!” … not to mention posing for photoshopped covers of Golf Digest with advice for Barack Obama. No wonder he didn’t have time to be smoking pot with Michael Phelps …

Still, before golf officially decided to go the degen route — or perhaps in preparation for it? — Golf Magazine ran a feature in their November issue about Phil Hellmuth, Layne Flack, Erick Lindgren, and Gavin Smith hitting the Las Vegas links, apparently foreshadowing the concept of risking big-big bucks on every hole:

Golf Magazine feature on High Stakes Poker Players Golfing

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