With a greens price now reaching $1,250, it’s important to be fairly well-endowed to attain a tee time at Las Vegas’ Shadow Creek. So it is sensible that these lucky sufficient to play there, or the membership, toss round fairly a couple of payments whereas on the course.
Particularly when the everyday clientele at Shadow Creek are gamblers.
On this week’s GOLF Subpar, longtime Shadow Creek Common Supervisor Monte Montgomery retold one in all his favourite tales of huge wagers on the course and it centered on two historic professional gamblers.
“It’s most likely midday and I hear this sizzling rod coming down our important highway and I’m like, I ponder who this could be, the boss or someone comes round this grey unique automobile,” Montgomery began telling co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz. “And the man pulls in and the doorways pop up like a Lambo and no matter and Phil [Ivey] pops out.”
Ivey advised him he and fellow skilled poker participant Erick Lindgren forward taken up golf and had been studying learn how to play. Given their skilled exploits, that after all meant wagers had been had on the course
However Montgomery was nonetheless astonished on the sight of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, even at a spot like Shadow Creek the place the everyday journey to the course is an unique sports activities automobile.
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“I’m like, when the hell did you get that?” Montgomery requested him.
“And he goes, ‘I simply went down and purchased it this morning.’
“I mentioned, ‘how a lot one thing like that price?’
“He goes, ‘I had simply spent like 750[-thousand].’ He goes, ‘Nevertheless it didn’t price me something.’ He goes, ‘I beat Lingren final night time for…’ Effectively, I don’t even need to get into that.”
Let’s simply assume it was for more cash than the automobile price him.
“We’re taking part in once more at the moment and I simply needed to come back out and present him what I purchased together with his cash,” Ivey defined.
The message was most likely obtained.
Earlier than Ivey headed off for his spherical, he tossed the keys to Montgomery’s 11-year-old son Taylor, who was standing subsequent to him.
“I’m like, ‘He’s not driving that factor.’ I mentioned, ‘Do you care if I take a for a spin?’” Montgomery requested.
“He goes, ‘Do no matter you need, Monte.’”
Not a nasty perk of the job. Montgomery mentioned he took down a facet road subsequent to the golf course and hit 150 mph earlier than returning the automobile to the parking zone with out a scratch on it, as nothing had ever occurred.
You’ll be able to take heed to the complete interview with Montgomery right here, or watch it on YouTube under.
