Great Moments in Gambling History

I won $4 on Powerball yesterday. Was feeling pretty good about things, and getting ready to write a post about Terry Francona's last game as a major league manager (which starts at 3:10 Eastern). Love that dude.

Then I got a text from Whitney with the following image, giving me instructions about my rooting interests for the day:

And so game on.

Things looked pretty dicey for the big fella as Jon Rahm trailed Scottie Sheffler 1 DN headed to 18, but perked up when the Spaniard took advantage of a loose chip by Sheffler to win the hole and earn a draw. Hovland, McIlroy, and Hatton took care of business without much drama, but Nicolai Hojgaard fought hard against Xander Schauffele until the diminutive American dispatched him by winning 15 and 16. 

Whit and I were exchanging increasingly incredulous texts at this point, because Fleetwood and MacIntyre looked pretty solid. Lowry, though, was struggling with Spieth. Then the Irishman drew even (YES!) and went ahead (NO!) while MacIntyre blew a tyre (see what I did there) and fell Even with Clark. We were poised on the razor's edge. 

Fleetwood and MacIntyre came through, but all seemed lost as Spieth and Lowry appeared to halve the final hole to give Lowry the win. Which was bad. Whit even went as far as to post a lament in the previous comment thread.

Lo and behold, in all the confusion, it turns out Lowry had lost 18 to Spieth to halve the match. Which meant that Whit's $10 bet made after multiple drinks at 11:28 pm last night earned him a cool $22,471. That aint' a typo:

The honeymoon's gonna be a doozy, y'all!