I received an interesting tournament invitation in the mail the other day for an event that combines golf and poker. It’s billed as the “Texas Hold 'Em of Golf” and is designed to entice medium to high handicappers to compete for a $750,000 pot. The buy-in is only $10,000 with a field limited to 180 players. According to an outline of the rules, players will have to ante up before teeing off on a hole and after the tee shots, they can raise, call, check or fold on each and every shot. When a player loses all of his chips he is eliminated. First prize is $250,000. The fun starts May 14 at The Mirage in Las Vegas (where else) and will be televised by NBC. My guess is that this will be the biggest collection of sandbaggers since Lawrence of Arabia. In case you’re wondering, Mr. Fairway has a prior commitment and will not be able to enter. But his winning strategy would be to go all-in on hitting a driver into the final fairway, of course.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Bo Wininger.
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- Mr. Fairway
- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.