One week ago, Wesley Bryan tweeted out a prompt that he likely knew would get the people going. Just how vicious the people would get was probably not something he expected, though.
Here was the tweet:
Would the internet invitational be better or worse if you replaced the 8 highest handicapped golfers there and added the 8 best players in the world? pic.twitter.com/CV11TkVOmY
— Wesley Bryan (@wesleybryangolf) November 4, 2026
Interesting question, Wes. Would the Internet Invitational be better if you got rid of some of the most entertaining characters and replaced them with a bunch of boring tour pros that golf fans can watch play at the highest level over 40 weeks a year. Hm, tough one!
Naturally, some people took issue with the prompt, including some of those in the screenshot he posted. The Pardon My Take boys discussed it on their podcast, as did the Foreplay crew a week later. Bryan went back at the PMT crew, defending his tweet and calling them “idiots”:
Yall are idiots. How did you spin my words that direction?
I was asking the question to the general golf audience
I would rather watch Bob Does Sports than the PGA TOUR. I would rather play alt shot with Bob than a pro golfer. I literally chose YouTube golf for that reason.
— Wesley Bryan (@wesleybryangolf) November 7, 2026
The whole thing has since taken on a life of its own. On Tuesday, it reached a point where Bryan felt the need to release a statement from his notes app. The statement-i-fication of America continues:
— Wesley Bryan (@wesleybryangolf) November 10, 2026
We discussed the entire saga on this week’s episode of The Loop podcast, in addition to the last two episodes of the Internet Invitational, which continues to deliver. Plus, we chatted with two-time PGA Tour winner Austin Smotherman, a former SMU teammate of Bryson DeChambeau’s who has a great Bryson story from the 2019 Masters. Please, have a listen below, and like and subscribe to The Loop wherever you get your podcasts:
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