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There has always been a bit of crossover between golf and poker. Whether it’s the legendary wagers placed on the course between poker giants Ivey, Brunson and the like or Dusty Schmidt’s million dollar golf and poker hybrid challenge, some similar threads undeniably run between the two games. That’s why a new study that focuses on risk aversion in professional golfers may be especially interesting to poker players.
The study in question, “Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakes”, is the work of University of Pennsylvania professors Devin G. Pope and Maurice E. Schweitzer. Pope and Schweitzer studied over 1.6 million putts...
