Ivey vs. Corey Pavin golf bet

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I've played golf for a living for a few years and feel pretty qualified to give everyone a reliable opinion. Phil Ivey has absolutely no chance to win this bet. I've given people these types of bets before myself and it's a sucker bet. Ivey will be scrambling to make pars and will still have an occasionally devastating hole and is basically just hand Corey money. I'd personally take this bet with Phil Ivey and I'm not as good as Corey obviously. TPC at Summerlin is an easy course even from the tips and you can expect Corey to shoot in the 60s more often than not. From what I've heard of Ivey he will probably still shoot in the mid to high 70s at best. At Corey's absolute worst he's not going to shoot much more than about 73 or 74. He's also not going to succomb to the pressure of $10k a hole because he has putts for those kinds of money everytime he plays golf. I'll take Corey if anyone want's some action on this..lol.

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This makes the most sense. I don't know why we don't see more things like this on TV: i.e. REALITY SPORTS. Weird rules & matchups, big money on the line, etc. I know ESPN tried it a little recently with some contest (it was lame). Awhile back there was something like this with Tiger vs some amateurs. Every hole Tiger won, the amateurs got to remove a club from his bag. Random, but interesting....
Somebody's going to come up with a cool format, make it marketable, and clean up, eventually.

But no way could I get on board with Ivey here - I'd bet big on Pavin.

* Too hard for Ivey to avoid one or two big numbers
* Pavin shoots 73-74 at worst. Summerlin isn't that hard. One of easiest on Tour.