It was a pretty unbelievable Sunday of golf, as fans watched 50-year-old Phil Mickelson, in the words of CBS’s Jim Nantz, “defeat Father Time,” defying the odds and winning at Kiawah Island.
Speaking of those odds! Lefty was a longshot heading into Thursday, with some reports of odds as big as 300/1 and many at 250/1. I certainly wouldn’t have put money down on him even with those odds — he had missed a bunch of cuts and hadn’t finished inside the top 20 (in a PGA Tour event) in a loooong time.
So here’s a look at some bettors who cashed in big time after Mickelson’s win:
