After sinking a five-footer to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Bryson Dechambeau headed into the winners press conference beaming. He was then asked a question about how the victory sets him up for the rest of the season, and responded with a slightly off-topic shoutout.<\/p>\n
Yeah, well, its incredible, DeChambeau said. First off, I do want to say thanks to DraftKings. I think theres some people out there that may have won some stuff today. So that was really cool.<\/p>\n
Thats perhaps the biggest star in golf not named Tiger Woods, openly talking about sports gambling, and no one batted an eye. Its not a surprise, really, when you see the DRAFTKINGS patch on his hat or his face in their advertisements.<\/p>\n
Such is the new reality in golf, where a gambling revolution is fully underway. Since the Supreme Court overruled a federal law prohibiting sports betting in 2018, the PGA Tour has embraced the betting\/fantasy sports space like never before. Its a remarkable shift from just a few years ago, when the Tour (and the other American sports leagues) essentially ignored the gambling universe entirely.<\/p>\n
In the latest episode of Local Knowledge, we examine why the change happened, the sky-high potential for golfs future in gambling, and what it might mean for the futurethe lucrative benefits and the potential dangers.<\/p>\n
PGA Tour senior vice president of media and gaming Norb Gambuzza takes us behind the scenes of the c-suite meetings that led to the shift; professional gambler and media personality Rick Gehman helps explain why golf is perfectly suited to gambling and daily fantasy; and our own Stephen Hennessey lays out why, for better or worse, golfs relationship with gambling will only continue to deepen in the years to come.<\/p>\n
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