James Adducci is looking for a second million-dollar pay-out on a Tiger Woods wager.
The 39-year-old Wisconsin day-trader won an eye-opening $1.276 million at the Masters in April. Now he’s looking to Tiger to win modern golf’s first Grand Slam – the Masters, the PGA and the US and British Opens.
Bobby Jones is golf’s only winner to date of a Grand Slam – all four majors in the same year. However, it differed considerably when the brilliant amateur won it in the early 1900s,
At that time a Grand Slam consisted of the British and US Opens and the British and US Amateurs.
Woods right now is the only man ever to have won all four modern majors back-to-back. However, as three were won in 2000 and the 4th in 2001, they did not constitute a Grand Slam. His feat, therefore, was named a ‘Tiger Slam’
Aducci won $1.276m with 14-1 bet on Woods at Augusta
To win his first million-dollar payout, Adducci laid out $85,000 at 14-1 on Woods to win the 2019 Masters. The bet was motivated, he claimed, by the fact that he had a mortgage and other loans totaling more than $25,000.
It was a bold gamble. Woods had won the Masters four times before that. He had also won all four majors at least three times. But personal problems and injury had intervened after his US Open triumph in 2008. In the 10 years since they had not won another major.
That, at least, was until he stunned the world at Augusta National in April. His 5th Masters victory was arguably the most memorable of all 15 of his major triumphs.
It was both highly rewarding and greatly inspiring for Adducci, It seems. He’s placed as much as $100,000 at 100-1 on Tiger going on from Augusta to win the next three majors. If Tiger manages the rare feat, Adducci will pick up another $10 million
“I wanted a nice round number to go for when I win the grand slam,” Adducci told the New York Post.
