If You Won The Lottery

[ks8829]

You just won the lottery worth 20 million US dollars! what would you do?

spend time with the kids and play more golf! How about you?

[PiKapp23]

Head to the UK and play golf everyday at some of the worlds greatest golf courses. After I'm tired of that, I'd head to Australia and New Zealand for some more golf. Then I suppose I head back to US and start my trip around the country playing every course I come to when I come to it.

[1dayIllBaPro]

give 1 million to my High School. Another million to my College. Buy new or maybe payoff the loan for my cousin's houses. By gifts for people who helped me a lot.

Then I am out on the course :)

But winning a jackpot will never happened to me... if one day I get so rich, I'll do this myself anyway...

[Pinseeker81]

Retire and do a lot of nothing. Buy a house so I don't have to live in this garage apartment in the slums. Sleep late every day.

[Titleist Man]

Make a list of courses i want to play around the world and go through the list. Then just play all over the US and practice enough to go pro.

[newtothegame]

Give my parents a deserved retirement. Payoff all my loved ones debts. And play golf the rest of my life

[Ben]

One house (modest)
3 cars (not modest)
High Yield Savings accounts
Fund my professional golf career

[Big_M]

One house (modest)

close... but

1 modest house and two small houses -modest here in NC -small cabin in Northern MI -small place in Colorado ski country couple cars... fairly modest and ditto the high yield savings play tons of golf... and if I ever got as good as Ben, maybe play some mini tours.

[MI Rob]

2 nice houses.
Few cars.
Play alot of golf all over the US.

[PEZGolf]

You just won the lottery worth 20 million US dollars! what would you do?

Here are the main actions that I would take:

1. Thank God, and make a pledge for annual contributions to my church in gratitude. 2. Give money to our 27 year old son (single) and 24 year old daughter (married) and establish a Trust for our granddaughter, THE RYLEIGH GIRL, ( 4 years old) 3. Build up my golf business from part-time to full time. NEVER "retire". I am Polish. We never retire. 4. Go back to the 9 hole public course that I tried to purchase over 10 years ago and buy it. It is where my late brother and I learned to play with our Dad.

[Ben]

close... but

With millions of dollars backing you, I'm sure you could get there.

And, you're right. I'd probably pick up a few places to sleep here and there. A nice apartment in Tokyo, Monaco and a cottage in Pinehurst.

[hackerandloveit]

Pay off some of my parents debt and the in-laws as well.

Modest house
2 Modest cars(already have my jeep, would just add a little more to it)
A cabin for vacation
And put the rest away and let it fund my golf addiction.

[RocketSauce]

1. give my family money they need and pay off their bills
2. buy a house in the keys and a couple of kick-a$$ fishing boats (an open fisherman type for deepwater and a flats boat for inshore fishing)
3. buy a few cars (new Dodge Challenger, a 67 Shelby GT500, a Lamborghini, just to name a few)
4. buy a condo in Scottsdale for golf getaways and a home here in the Tampa/Orlando area
5. donate money to the local animal shelters

but in order for me to do that, i guess i would have to start playing the lottery....

[NM Golf]

First, it will never happen because I am too young and good looking to win the lottery. Plus I still have all my teeth! JK

If it did happen:
Buy a nice house not a mansion but something classy
Buy a summer house in MI so my wife can visit her family
Take care of the family
Join a decent country club
Play golf A LOT!


Pretty much play golf everyday while the kids are in school then family time when they are out.

[ks8829]

time spent with the following;

family or kids activities
golf
volunteer work
more golf!

[EquipmentJunkie]

1.) Student Loans
2.) Pay for fiances schooling
3.) Pay off parents and grand parents home
4.) Buy a home in Dana Point as well as my fiances native Netphen, Germany
5.) Take a year off of work and finish my masters degree
6.) Donate money to my department for a new station
7.) Get my little brother a full time private tennis coach and a tutor so he can home school and focus on tennis
8.) Get a Roth Ira and a better mutual fund, accountant, ect.

[Fraser]

Working in investment planning I've seen plenty of people with $20m+ liquid assets and leading very normal lives and to be honest if someone wrote me a cheque for $20m it wouldn't change my life massively.

I'd probably buy a couple of nice weekend cars (of the Aston Martin DB5 ilk) and take a year off to travel, plus travel several months of the year instead of several weeks. Also would get a Netjets account for US domestic travel.

[Fraser]

I can also supply food to children in Africa and

I don't think $20m will stop that happening!