Tiger Woods won the Masters, and one sports bettor won $1. 19 million from the feat.
On Tuesday, a bettor at a William Hill U.S. sportsbook at SLS Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada placed an $85,000 bet on Woods to win at 14-1 odds. It was the first bet ever placed by the customer at William Hill and will pay out $1.19 million, the largest single golf ticket in the company’s history in the U.S.
“Pretty good first bet,” William Hill U.S. director of trading Nick Bogdanovich told ESPN.
It’s believed to be the fourth seven-figure payout on a bet at a William Hill U.S. sportsbook. The previous three were on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII against the New England Patriots.
“It’s great to see Tiger back,” Bogdanovich added in a release. “It’s a painful day for William Hill — our biggest loss ever — but a great day for golf.”
The SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas reported a high-five-figure net loss on its Masters futures. Jeff Sherman, vice president of risk for the SuperBook and a golf odds specialist, said he couldn’t recall the last time the book had suffered a net loss on the Masters winner and that Woods’ win likely produced the book’s largest loss on a golf event.
Sports bettor James Holzhauer broke his single-day Jeopardy! record he set last week.
On the episode that aired Wednesday, Holzhauer topped his own single-game winnings mark with $131,127 to capture his 10th straight victory.
He has won $697,787 during his 10-day run and is already second on the show’s all-time, regular-play winnings list, behind only past great champion Ken Jennings.
Jennings won more than $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak in 2004. Holzhauer is on pace to surpass Jennings in 36 games and now owns the four most prolific single-day performances ever on the show.
Sports betting in states where it was recently legalized has not brought the anticipated revenue to brick-and-mortar casinos. Online and mobile sports betting has been lucrative for New Jersey.