You get 1000 shots to make a hole-in-one on Pebble Beach’s famous downhill par-3 7th. It’s playing 100 yards with no wind. If you make it, you get a billion dollars. If you don’t, you go to maximum security prison for a year. Do you do it?
Tiger’s net worth is ~$800m, which means the $100k putt he left short on the final hole of the Japan Skins represented about .0125% of his wealth.
The equivalent for a weekend hacker worth $97,300 (the median net worth of a U.S. household)?
A putt worth 12 bucks.