Stand-up comedy is as pressure-packed of an environment as there is. Yet there may not be a gig or room on the planet that could possibly dial up the nerves quite like trying to play golf on camera for one million dollars, as comedian and Barstool Sports personality Francis Ellis came to find out in the incredible final episode of The Internet Invitational.
“I’ve had pressure moments in my life,” Ellis said on this week’s episode of The Loop podcast. “But usually it was like, I have to kiss a girl for my first kiss on the dance floor. Or, like, I’m in trouble and I have to lie my way out of the fact that I didn’t do my homework. You know what I mean?”
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Ellis, who made it to the final match and was paired with the late Cody “Beef” Franke of Foreplay and Good Good’s Brad Dalke, said the final few holes was by far the biggest pressure cooker of his life. Understandable given they were collectively playing for $1 million in prize money, $333,333 per player.
It was on the 16th hole where he felt the nerves the most.
“It shifted from ‘I hope we win’ to ‘I hope I don’t lose this for us’,” he said.
It didn’t help that Beef had already made mention of the fact that he’d be using his prize money, had his team won, to help pay off his parents’ mortgage.
“Am I really going to hit the shot that keeps my friend’s parents in debt?” Ellis joked. “Are you kidding me? Is there a tour player out there, or a Ryder Cup player, like Scottie Scheffler knows that if he misses a putt, Bryson [DeChambeau] is going to be fine. His parents don’t have mortgages to pay off.”
In our full interview with Ellis, we also discussed SlopeGate, enforcing the rules and how he almost blew his chance at the $333,333 before even receiving it. Please, have a listen below, and like and subscribe to The Loop wherever you get your podcasts.
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
