This guy was the only person on earth to correctly pick the WGC–Dell Match Play championship and consolation matches

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If this is the last time we see the WGC–Dell Technologies Match Play on the calendar, it went out with a bang. Scottie Scheffler and Rory Mcilroy duked it out in their consolation match, perhaps a preview of what’s to come at Augusta National next week, while Sam Burns lapped Cameron Young 6&5 in the championship match, finishing the week a perfect 7-0.

Along the way, many brackets were busted, all except for this Louisiana hero’s, which became the only bracket out of 40,432 official entries to correctly pick the exact championship and consolation matches.

There’s some dispute over the calculations here. The correct likelihood is actually .00247 percent. Regardless, this man’s feat is actually significantly less likely than hitting a hole-in-one. According to America’s National Hole-In-One Registry (yes, human beings really will form an organisation for just about anything), the odds of a golfer hitting a hole-in-one in their lifetime are 12,500-to-1, or .008 percent. Not too shabby.

The rest of the details remain scant. We don’t know what the man won for his feat and we don’t know how much red was on the rest of his bracket. But for now, he gets an ‘atta boy from us. Remind us to copy his homework at the next one of these things… whenever that is.