The Inevitable Future of YouTube Golf<\/a><\/p>\nAnd the drama started early when Francis, Beef, and Brad didn\u2019t give Paige, Frankie, and Mo a two-foot slider for par on the opening hole. Paige took offense to it and told Francis \u201cThat just shows you never played competitive golf.\u201d Francis told Brad he could make it \u201cdark,\u201d but came to a truce with Paige on the second tee box. <\/p>\n
And away they went\u2014oh, by the third hole, viewership reached 100,000.<\/p>\n
On the fifth, after Beef hit his tee shot a little long of the green, Brad hit one of the most ridiculous flop shots I\u2019ve ever seen. Tight lie, no green to work with, everything going away from him. This was nasty.<\/p>\n
The first moment of high tension came on the 10th hole when Paige was accused of improving a lie a hole earlier. Pete Finch saw her pushing down high weeds around her team\u2019s ball, and when confronted, Paige said she didn\u2019t know that was against the rules. Paige\u2019s team lost the hole anyway, so in the end it didn\u2019t matter much, but she felt terrible about it.<\/p>\n
But then, on the very same hole, Joey Cold Cuts told Dave Portnoy there was a rangefinder in Frankie\u2019s team that had slope enabled. Ryan Whitney checked Mo\u2019s rangefinder and the slope wasn\u2019t on, but then Bubbie said he saw Mo grab it before giving it over to turn it off.<\/p>\n
Just absolute cinema. I couldn\u2019t look away. It honestly felt scripted (in the best possible way).<\/p>\n
When both teams were on the green, Dave checked the GoPro cart cam and saw Mo grab his rangefinder with his hand questionably close to the switch for slope. Ryan Whitney, who bet on Frankie\u2019s team, saw the video and laughed. Pretty damning, if you ask me.<\/p>\n
And the music. Are you kidding me? This is a realty show.<\/p>\n
In the end, Dave decided to just play, which was the right call. It’s be a waste to turn the finale into a rules controversy.<\/p>\n
The atmosphere for the rest of the round was tense. Nerves were visibly at peak levels and not just because of the golf. Everyone declared rulings the rest of the day, and I don\u2019t blame them.<\/p>\n
Team Dalke was 2 up with three holes to play, and the pressure showed up. Francis skulled his tee shot on the par-3 16th, and Beef bladed his chip. Brad hit a great chip to a few feet, then it was Paige\u2019s turn. Her putt for birdie came up short and rolled back down the hill. Again\u2026cinema! Frankie left his team\u2019s par bid several feet short, but Francis let them off the hook. Team Paige won the hole with a four, and the lead was 1 up with two to play.<\/p>\n
At this point, you could feel the tension in the air. And it only got more dense when Team Paige won 17 and the two teams went to 18 all tied up. All six videos and $1,000,000 came down to one hole.<\/p>\n
After Frankie hit it in the junk\u2014we all knew it was coming with Dave standing so close\u2014Brad hit a drive that might have gone four bills, right down the center. It shouldn\u2019t shock me. He played in the Masters, for God\u2019s sake. But you want to talk about stones? My goodness.<\/p>\n
Mo answered with a fantastic shot from the fescue, setting his team up for a third from the fairway. Francis\u2019 shot came up short and left of the green, and Paige\u2019s\u2014the team\u2019s third\u2014snap hooked left and finished near the other team\u2019s ball. <\/p>\n
But all the drama left the event when Frankie \u201cButterknives\u201d bladed his team\u2019s fourth over the green and into the water.<\/p>\n
Game over.<\/p>\n
The best part, though, was Beef hit the team\u2019s final shot to close it out. Truly a storybook ending. And the tribute they put together for him at the end was perfect. Tear-jerking, to say the least.<\/p>\n
The main takeaway? This thing rocked. It\u2019s truly captured the golf world\u2019s attention for three weeks. Not only do I want more, I want a couple of these things a year.<\/p>\n
Barstool and Bob Does Sports knocked this out of the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*Spoiler warning if you haven\u2019t watched episode six yet* When episode six of the Internet Invitational was live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-290383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}