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Behold the greatest—and craziest—parlay bet in golf history (If it’s real)

In 2017, a British man named Jordan Baker was 75 percent of the way toward winning a 1-million-to-1 parlay bet on golf's four major championships. Baker correctly predicted Sergio Garcia to win the Masters, Brooks Koepka to win the U.S. Open and Justin Thomas to win the PGA Championship that year, but his one whiff, Rickie Fowler at the British Open, cost him a £2 million payoff. On Sunday, though, a mystery gambler appears to have pulled off something nearly as improbable with a wager that was certainly more random.
Thanks to UK-based golf writer Ben Coley, an incredible betting slip has taken Golf Twitter by storm. As you can imagine, the odds (about 8,500-to-1) and the payout (£126,875.88 or about $163,000) are significant, but the four legs of the parlay are what have everyone talking. The parlay won thanks to Jon Rahm's victory at the DP World Tour Championship that also gave the Spaniard the European Tour's season-long Race to Dubai title. But it actually began at ..

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