It’s a big weekend in our weird little corner of the sports world. Brooks Koepka is back on the PGA Tour, the PGA Tour is back on ESPN and Patrick Reed officially begins his European arc. But if you need to find us, we’ll be over here watching a bunch Average Joes thin it through a fine china shop. Trust us, it’s just as fun and a hell of a lot better for your self-esteem.
The Winternet Invitational
Have you found yourself longing for those sweet summer nights sitting inside watching the Internet Invitational from the comfort of your air conditioning? Are you craving the sort of fireworks that only detonate when YouTube golf’s best and brightest join forces to throw darts and take a couple pot shots? Well, you’re in luck.
No, Barstool’s big-money, invite-only golf-a-palooza isn’t back, but this week Bob Does Sports, Grant Horvat and the Bryan Bros gave us the next best thing with the debut of their new three-part Two-Man YouTube Golf Tournament.
The first episode finds the crew at Tesoro Golf Club to kick off their battle for inter-channel bragging rights. Robby Berger is teamed up with Wesley Bryan, Grant Horvat with Fat (or should be say “Flat”?) Perez and George Bryan with Joey Cold Cuts. The team with lowest cumulative score after three days walks away the winner. Although the pairings stay the same each day, the format changes, and to start the group begin with the trusty, dependable scramble. It may not be the sexiest format, but like an old pickup truck, it delivers when you need it to.
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The boys almost had a Luke Kwon situation on their hands when Fat Perez disappeared minutes before the start of the opening match. He returned in time, but even if he hadn’t, something tells us it wouldn’t have caused nearly the same stir it did at Big Cedar Lodge this summer.
That sort of sums up the Two-Man Youtube Golf Tournament through its first two episodes. Sure, it doesn’t have the pomp, circumstance and drama of something like the Internet Invitational, but it makes up for it with its focus on good friends and good golf. Plus, Horvat is dialed in throughout and it’s a joy to watch. The dude can absolutely ball but was eliminated early in Missouri this summer so we didn’t get to see it on full display. Thankfully, he more than makes up for that here.
Ultimately, it’s unfair to even compare something like the Two-Man YouTube Golf Tournament to the double-I, but that’s the YouTube Golf world we live in now. All you really need to know is that this completely stands on its own and sums up everything we love about YouTube golf in ways that Internet Invitational, as great as it was, simply couldn’t.
Quick Hits
Bob Does Sports
My personal favorite series on YouTube (and “longest series in the history of YouTube” according to Joey Cold Cuts) returns this week as Bob once again tries to break 80. The fellas are fighting a bug and there are literal cement mixers on the course, but with some help from Grant “Guru” Horvat, Bobby Fairways gives it his all. Check it out to see if his all is enough.
Bryson DeChambeau
Have you ever seen that video of three professional soccer players playing against 100 kids? Well, this week Bryson attempts the golf version, facing off in a match against five children in a 1 v. 5 scramble match. He says there will be “no mercy,” but we don’t know if he means for them or him.
Good Good Golf / Good Good Girls
Nelly Korda made waves this week when she said she may not play in the newly formed women’s TGL, calling the league’s decision not to include a mixed division a “huge miss.” Good Good isn’t making that same mistake, hosting their first-ever co-ed championship featuring mixed teams and whole lot of great golf. Nelly to Good Good Golf? You heard it here first.
Tooms Golf
The woman, the myth, the legend, Lydia Ko, joins Tooms Golf for a high-stakes match this week. The stakes? If Luke Toomey loses to Ko, he must return to pro golf. Toomey is a two-time New Zealand stroke play champion and competed on the Australasian Tour until 2024. Now he mostly splits his time between YouTube and coaching, but if Ko has anything to say about it, he’ll be taking another run at The Show sooner than later.
GM Golf
Garrett Clark hosts a four-man stroke play major at … TPC Sawgrass!?!? OK, OK. We knew Good Good was doing well, but we didn’t know they were making TPC Sawgrass money. Sheesh.
Bryan Bros.
In non-video news, Wesley Bryan provided on an update on his PGA Tour suspension for playing in LIV Golf’s celebrity scramble event, Duels, last spring. Unfortunately it seems like the chants of #FreeWesley that rose to a crescendo after Brooks Koepka’s reinstatement have yet to reach Ponte Vedra Beach.
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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
