Four golfers score $30M Lotto Max win

Apr 12, 2012, 9:41 am (71 comments)

Canada Lotto Max

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Four golfers from Langley, British Columbia, have scored their best ever round — a $30 million Lotto Max jackpot.

Lotto Max is a nationwide lottery game played in Canada.

Ian McMurtrie, Wayne Miller, Tom Moryson and Joe Scully, who work together in Langley and are golfing buddies, had the winning ticket in Friday's draw.

McMurtrie was the first to discover the win while watching the TV news Saturday morning and says his wife screamed and collapsed on the floor.

He then signed all four winners' names on the back of the ticket and started calling his friends with the news.

The golf foursome plan trips to famous courses in Pebble Beach, California and St. Andrews, Scotland, as well as to Augusta, Georgia for next year's Masters Tournament.

The winning ticket was a Quick Pick bought at the Otter Co-op in Abbotsford.

Canadian Press

Comments

sully16's avatarsully16

Congrats to the foursome, nice job fellas, enjoy your travels.

maximumfun's avatarmaximumfun

"McMurtrie was the first to discover the win while watching the TV news Saturday morning and says his wife screamed and collapsed on the floor.

He then signed all four winners' names on the back of the ticket and started calling his friends with the news."

Nice - now THAT is the way to run a lottery pool!  Congratulations to all 4!

Cletu$2's avatarCletu$2

Quote: Originally posted by maximumfun on Apr 12, 2012

"McMurtrie was the first to discover the win while watching the TV news Saturday morning and says his wife screamed and collapsed on the floor.

He then signed all four winners' names on the back of the ticket and started calling his friends with the news."

Nice - now THAT is the way to run a lottery pool!  Congratulations to all 4!

Isn't that called forgery?I'm surprised that the lottery would accept a ticket that has been signed with four signatures by the same person.Just saying.

mcginnin56

Moral Of This Story:

 

Make sure you live in Canada.  Yes Nod

Always play the Lotto Max on an Easy Pick.   Type

Have a bunch of golf buddies who like to pool.   Thinking of...

 

Most Importantly:  Prepare in advance, a cushioning floor mat to catch your wife as she collapses.  Coffee

LottoGuyBC's avatarLottoGuyBC

Group Hug

McMurtrie is 46. He was laid off from the golf industry a week prior to the win.

The other gentlemens are 62,63 & 63.

Congrats on winnin' the Max

and Back to the putting green Hurray!

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

Congrats to the winners.....Thumbs Up

CDanaT's avatarCDanaT

I like the part where the wife screams and then collapses on the floor !!!  ROFL.........yeah yeah, I know...god will punish me ..but it is funny Naughty

rad242

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Apr 12, 2012

I like the part where the wife screams and then collapses on the floor !!!  ROFL.........yeah yeah, I know...god will punish me ..but it is funny Naughty

Her mind instantly flooded with bags and shoes and jewelry. Naturally she was overwhelmed with the burden of all that shopping that's ahead of her. Probably will need to hire a personal assistant

CDanaT's avatarCDanaT

Quote: Originally posted by rad242 on Apr 12, 2012

Her mind instantly flooded with bags and shoes and jewelry. Naturally she was overwhelmed with the burden of all that shopping that's ahead of her. Probably will need to hire a personal assistant

lololol.......reminds me of an old neighbors wife...lololol....but he told me her personal assistant was "BOB"

HaveABall's avatarHaveABall

Quote: Originally posted by Cletu$2 on Apr 12, 2012

Isn't that called forgery?I'm surprised that the lottery would accept a ticket that has been signed with four signatures by the same person.Just saying.

LOL, I, too, chuckled at this Canadian journalist's poor word choice for "printed."  [They probably, also, have lottery tickets that require names to be printed and also signed at the bottom.]  Oh, these foreign countries!

Shocked

HaveABall's avatarHaveABall

Quote: Originally posted by rad242 on Apr 12, 2012

Her mind instantly flooded with bags and shoes and jewelry. Naturally she was overwhelmed with the burden of all that shopping that's ahead of her. Probably will need to hire a personal assistant

Or, rad242, the man without weekly income's wife had simply become SUPER worried about how she and her husband would be able to survive without income from his ceased job continued; and this super dooper share of the lottery jackpot win rescue news caused her brain to overheat as a result of the shock!

rad242

Quote: Originally posted by HaveABall on Apr 12, 2012

Or, rad242, the man without weekly income's wife had simply become SUPER worried about how she and her husband would be able to survive without income from his ceased job continued; and this super dooper share of the lottery jackpot win rescue news caused her brain to overheat as a result of the shock!

The miracle is in the TIMING!

HaveABall's avatarHaveABall

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Apr 12, 2012

I like the part where the wife screams and then collapses on the floor !!!  ROFL.........yeah yeah, I know...god will punish me ..but it is funny Naughty

Hum, sometimes a groom simply doesn't understand his bride. Had this large lottery jackpot man known his bride's current emotional state better, he would have known the level of how worried she had been at his loss of income, and thus, he would have timed presenting his big news to her when she was lying down. 

Ah well, another learning experience for the both of them! Congratulations to the jackpot winners! Cheers

dpoly1's avatardpoly1

When I win, I will be the one on the way to the gun shop & then malls!

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