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Jim Furyk - what a guy!

Amazing. Last week I had my biggest win ever. Yesterday I broke that record by winning a total of £51.30 on The Tour Championship!

That means I now have a running profit total of £78.93. So I suppose if you add in the £20 initial stake I am less than £2 short of my £100 target which I aimed to reach by the end of the Ryder Cup, which is actually happening next weekend.

However, I am away on my own golf weekend next weekend so will be unable to bet. I think though to all intents and purposes I have reached my target and have therefore decided to entend this experiment anyway to see just how far I can go.

How did I win over £50 on the Tour Championship? Again I joined it late on the final day and saw that Jim Furyk was leading by 2 shots with about 5 holes to go. Now Jim Furyk is a formidable competitor and a major winner and I could just not see anyone in the chasing pack catching him. The chasing pack included Retief Goosen, Luke Donald and Paul Casey. I just kept betting that the chasers would not win. I never actually bet that Jim would win.

Now if Jim won this event it meant he would also win the Fedex Cup which is like a league system based on previous tournaments this year. As it turned out he did have a bit of a wobble and needed to par the final hole (a par 3) to win both events and a total of 11 million pounds!

He put his tee shot into a bunker and then played a superb bunker shot to within 3 feet. That meant he had a 3 foot put for 11 million dollars. That is pressure.

He holed it though which was a fantastic result for him - and for me

Bets Outstanding: 0

Current Profit or Loss: +£78.93

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Tags: Jim Furyk, The Fedex Cup, The Tour Championship

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