{"id":450361,"date":"2026-01-31T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:00:17","slug":"ripper-gc-takes-aim-at-its-social-media-manager-in-hilarious-new-stunt-to-get-more-followers-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450361\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripper GC takes aim at its social media manager in HILARIOUS new stunt to get more followers \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over flagsticks \u2013 there\u2019s a new target on the range, and it\u2019s all in the name of\u00a0YouTube supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>In a move that\u2019s equal parts genius and genuinely Aussie,\u00a0LIV Golf\u2019s all-Australian powerhouse Ripper GC\u00a0has launched the wildest YouTube follower campaign of the season \u2013 and it involves marshmallows, high stakes, and one very nervous social media guru.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/ive-made-my-bed-cam-smith-makes-huge-decision-on-liv-golf-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018I\u2019VE MADE MY BED\u2019: Cam Smith makes HUGE decision on LIV Golf future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The challenge? For every\u00a0new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@rippergc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube follower\u00a0Ripper GC<\/a> picks up, the team lines up one marshmallow \u2013\u00a0not for roasting, mind you \u2013 but to\u00a0smack straight at their social media manager, Chase Lyons. Yep. You follow \u2019em, he takes the fluff straight to the body from point-blank range.<\/p>\n<p>This real kicker? If they don\u2019t hit their ambitious target of 200,000 followers by season\u2019s end, Lyons can start looking for a new job. Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full chaos from the opening two days here:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease follow. This is amazing,\u201d says skipper Cam Smith.<\/p>\n<p>It IS amazing. It\u2019s the kind of stunt you\u2019d only expect from Australia\u2019s most mischievous golf crew \u2013\u00a0part camaraderie, part friendly hazing, and 100 percent calculated to blow up their follower count. <\/p>\n<p>Lyons, bless him, is as good-humoured as they come, sheepishly agreeing to be the marshmallow martyr if the Instagram numbers go\u00a0boom.<\/p>\n<p>While Smith and his LIV mates have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/ive-made-my-bed-cam-smith-makes-huge-decision-on-liv-golf-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making headlines on and off the course course<\/a> the off-season, this campaign proves they\u2019re not too worried about any outside noise.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s cheeky. It\u2019s childish. It\u2019s\u00a0perfect Internet content. And honestly, if it gets Chase plastered with sugary projectile applause\u2026 we\u2019re all here for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Move over flagsticks \u2013 there\u2019s a new target on the range, and it\u2019s all in the name of\u00a0YouTube&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,6409,5864,755,1202,232890,198637,85,148231,446],"class_list":["post-450361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cam-smith","tag-driver","tag-golf","tag-instagram","tag-marshmallows","tag-ripper-gc","tag-sports","tag-stunt","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}