Subpar - Breaking down the Internet Invitational with Barstool's Sam "Riggs" Bozoian

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by Barstool Sports personality Sam "Riggs"Bozoian. The Foreplay Podcast host reveals how the Internet Invitational came to be, the biggest stories of the series so far and if there are plans for a sequel in the near future. --Bet with Fanatics Sportsbook and earn up to 10% FanCash back, win or lose. Millions are being given away this year, and you can use your FanCash across the entire Fanatics Universe. Download the app today. Fanatics Sportsbook. Winning hits different here.⁠https://joinfanatics.com/subpar⁠Must be 21+. GAMBLING PROBLEM? Call 1-800-GAMBLER, CT call [phone], MA call (800)-327-5050, NY call (877) 8-HOPENY, MD visit ⁠⁠mdgamblinghelp.org⁠⁠  Not available in all states. Terms apply. See Fanatics Sportsbook app.--We’ve teamed up with Shady Rays to bring you an exclusive offer. Head to shadyrays.com and use code: SUBPAR for 35% OFF polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated 5 stars by over 300,000 people.--Start your hair growth journey with Nutrafol.  For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to nutrafol.com and enter the code SUBPAR.Choose your style, pick your favorite Birdie Juice logo and shop from a line-up of top tier brands at ⁠⁠https://shop.golf.com/pages/storefront/golfsp⁠⁠ today!

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Sleeves, we'll get to our gambling here in a little bit, but we're close. Vanderbilt. Yeah, my only gambling problem is Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt. Not playing football until about... Congratulations. You took three quarters off. He has one of the ugliest backdoor covers of all time.

But when you take the money line, it doesn't really matter. Thanks for nothing. All right. We'll get to that in a little bit. First of all, it was Halloween weekend. Oh, you bet your ass was. Did you happen to have any favorite costumes out there? It's hard to narrow it down.

There are so many great ones, however, I will say this. I got home... This is, by the way, like at my house, I got a six-year-old girl and a three, almost four-year-old girl. Like, Halloween's damn near the Super Bowl. Like, it's not Christmas, but it's pretty close. We've been talking about Halloween for a long time.

So we get out there, we start hitting all the houses, but they get tired and they want to go home and eat all their candy. So we go home and I've been around my phone or anything, coming in, watching the game, got a couple buddies over, having a few pops. And all of a sudden my phone starts going. And I get a text, and I just click the picture. And then there you were looking better than you ever fucking having your life, by the way.

You look, beautiful. Visor, slightly crooked. Socks up. Shoes, proper, shirt, proper. Sponsors. You even added a couple in there, too. Puma. I thought were a nice addition.

Had your Puma logo over here on the left chest. Right chest, zone nicotine. Shout out. We had a little Celsius. A lot of people were telling me I messed up. Should have put Red Bull. I said, the man switched. I spend every day in my life with him.

Health conscious. Yep. Celsius on one collar and then threw in a little bonus, little vizine sponsorship. For the eyeballs. I appreciate it. I use all of those things heavily. Heavily, by the way.

God, you had to get a lot of love for that. I mean, the wife probably couldn't keep her little mitts off of you. loved it. I was very uncomfortable with how much Natalie actually liked it. I was like, okay. She's like, you look so great. I was like, shut up. I look terrible. What are you talking about? I'm not going to a little longer. I knock out one of my fantasies. I went to a party

and apparently you're not famous enough because I had to keep explaining to everyone what my damn costume was. Well, I mean, yeah, you've got to be a particular niche. Here's a dude dressed as a golfer. Granted, there are a few unique items such as the visor and the socks, but otherwise it's like, yeah, what are you?

Just a lazy dude that. just picked out a golf costume. So you're a golfer and you're dressed as a golfer. I was like, no, I'm dressed as sleaze. He's a guy I do the podcast stuff with. Trust me, if you know him, it's funny. But I will say this. Now, tell me more about Natalie.

That's the end of it. Tell me more about what she said. I will say this. It was comfortable just to wear the, I just wear some Viori shorts because I feel like you like, I mean, you're, you're Puma stuff. I don't have much Puma stuff. Just relax and comfortable.

Oh, yeah. Super comfortable costume. or people over at golf.com because they put out a little social media clip talking about the best Halloween outfits from the world of golf. Had Bryson in there, had Sergio dressed as himself, basically,

with his wife, dressed as a master's caddy. DJ and Paulina. DJ and Paulina, that was a good costume. That was a good costume. You left out me dressed his sleeves. What are we doing here, guys? How about a little love? Yeah, no.

In my unbiased opinion, yours blows them out of the water. I've seen a bunch of those costumes before you know what I hadn't seen that. I kept scrolling and scrolling And scrolling, I was like, eventually it's going to get there. It's going to be the pitcher of me as the sleaze. No.

No, nothing. Crickets. Real recognized real. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. It was a nice little surprise to the guy. I didn't know that was coming. I had some people that were out in your neck of the woods texting me about it, too.

And I was like, yeah, dude. I saw it. I had it. I had it narrowed down to three choices. Okay. One, I've been getting all kinds of messages, as have you, about me being the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. Yeah, you just need a hack. Yeah, so I tried, I went to Fanatics, tried to get a hat and a hoodie because that's what their manager wears every game.

Get it to the house before Friday. I waited too long, waited to like Tuesday or Wednesday. Couldn't get it there in time. Couldn't overnight it. So that was out. So then I went back and forth between you or just dressing as myself, Calloway had on golf clothes with a trophy that said 2028 U.S.J. Midam champion. Social media. The people are like, like, what is this shit-ass costume that you got?

Social media would have been great. I would have leaned into that all the way. I thought about just doing both of them and just putting them both on social media. Yeah, you could combine those, too. But I decided not to just because I've gotten enough hate because of it. I did get an email from the USDA. I said the committee still needs to meet to make it official, but it sounds like 2028 is the year. 2028, you're ready to go starting in May.

That's when shit starts. Does it? Yeah. More or less. So that's a four ball. If you're playing four ball. I can't play the four ball. It starts in May.

You know, else gets, uh, out in May of 2028. Diddy. Yeah, perfect. I knew where you were leading with that. You and Diddy are coming back to the world at the same time, only fitting. Yes. Hey, congratulations.

A couple more years goes by like that. You can get a couple more years shittier, and then you'll be back ready to go. Yeah, well, I'm sure this topic won't go away, considering I did just also sign with the Hollywood hitters for one tournament contract, Grass League, December, I believe, 5th and 6th. Yeah, thereabouts. We got a squad. Okay, I've never played in one. I checked with the tour to make sure it was all right as far as like pension and all this. I'm playing as an amateur.

But no money will be distributed. I'm teaming up. Way to get that out there publicly. Yeah, with the biggest layer of them all. Scott Harrington and I will be partners on the Hollywood hitters. Wow. As the other two in our squad, Peter Thomas Sulo and Martin Flores. And we just got tour players.

Everyone's going to be thrilled. I got a couple slap dicks that can't break 76 up at the club. Don't talk about Kittleston like that. Oh, no. Kitty's solid. We got a couple other ones. I'm probably the oldest team in the league. We might have to talk to management because that's a

good team. Yeah, I'm excited. Dude, by the way, like, they got Midland, they got two music acts, both nights, or one each night. Midland the first night, big act. Huge. Awesome, too. Second night, Big X, the plug. You don't know about Big X. Nothing. You're going to get to know them. Dallas, man, like yourself. You guys have a lot in common, actually. That'll bring it different. Let's be interesting to see what kind of

squad that brings up, but they're going. These things are fun. Like this, by the way, for you too, it's short irons and putting. Let's go. You don't even have to hit dogs. I was built for this. I know. Larrington's going to suck ass. No, he's going to be great.

We're going to bring on the time. He's going to show a lot of personality. Yeah. Got to work on us getting grouped together. Literally, dude, I just flided my wedge, my 52 degree. I bent it to 51. He's going to kill you. Oh, love you.

Okay. That's big news. Manger, GM of the year possibly. You're just working your way back into the AM world. This is nice. Yeah. Yeah, grass clippings will be fun. You're dressing like me playing in my freaking tournament?

I just want to be you. I know, dude, Natalie. With a little more talent. Hall at your boy, Natalie. Also, don't know if you saw this. The World Series was absolutely amazing. Seven games. Dodgers end up winning game seven in 11 innings 5'4 in one of the greatest,

not just baseball games I've ever seen, just sporting events I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, I'm a zero on the scale of baseball fandom. I tuned into that thing, bottom of the eighth. How about that? Two outs, bottom of the eighth. and then I got to watch the rest, which was the ninth was maybe the most exciting inning of baseball ever,

10th, you know, then it ends in the 11th. And I was like, God, if every game was like, I would watch, I'd watch 160 games. Do we have an like instant replay to determine whether or not you win the World Series? Like, what are the odds of that happening? By the way, I was thinking about that too. Because, like, I know that video replay. I don't know it's like to what extent in baseball, but I was like, I mean, dude, that was bang, bang.

And when they slowed it down, it was hard, it was still hard to tell, like, because he's safe that his foot, get there before the guy got his foot back on, before the catcher got his foot back on the back. I was like, what if they had called that safe? Yeah, right? I mean, it's hard to overturn that. And then they do dog pile eruption. Fans are probably jumping onto the field and stuff like that.

And then they go review and be like, ah, just kidding. Out. That would have been. It was so close. Good work by the Omp to call that out and then be like, we'll just go verify that. Because if he caught it safe, that would have been dirt now. I mean, you had that. You had the catch in the outfield where the two guys collided.

Kike Hernandez was going for it. And the center of fielder said, nope, not on my watch. I'm going to make sure. Not up in here. Yeah. That was unbelievable. The throw to home from the second basement, which on that play where the guy slid, and it was so close.

They went and replayed it. And Will Smith's foot came off home plate. They went back down just in time. And I was telling you earlier about the Edmonton Oilers were playing at the same time. And everyone's obviously rooting for the Blue Jays in Canada. It's their only baseball team. And the place is packed at Edmonton while the hockey game is going on. And I'm not sure if it was on the screen at the game or people were just watching on their phones.

but when that play happened, obviously you can't hear the audio, the place erupted and thought the Blue Jays just won the World Series. And even the guy on the TV call goes, the Toronto Blue Jays just won the World Series. And then immediately goes, wait, never mind. And so I can't imagine what it was like in that arena. Like the air just had to be sucked out of it once they called him out. But what a game, man.

Hats off to both teams. Congrats to the Dodgers on going back to back. That was fun to watch. Just takes money. Turns out all that money they spent. Who's the pitcher that pitched three games and has an arm? An arm that net. Yeah, he's sick.

Three games. He tried to throw in that 18 inning one too, apparently went up to play. He's a gamer, man. I'm good. I'm good. So whatever he's doing, he's doing it right. Congratulations. That was cool.

But we were talking about some of like the greatest games we've ever seen. And I mentioned the Kansas City Chiefs Buffalo Bills back in the playoffs in 2022. And they went back and forth in the fourth quarter. It's just insane. And the Chiefs ended up winning an overtime. And it changed the overtime rule because of it. And then we talked about the 2006 Rose Bowl, Texas, USC. That's the best.

I mean, that was like everything, the two best. For my money, I think it's in the modern era, if you want to call that, like call it since 2000. I think the two best college football players that we've had, Vince and Reggie, you get the road in there, Cam Newton. There's some others, too, but like two of the best. Of all the time, that thing was everything. But yeah, that baseball game did, I was like, oh, I'll just see what's happening. And then Little Dead I know I was going to get the best finish in the history of baseball. I was watching at a bar down the road here with Comey.

And the bar was probably, I would say pretty split as far as we got a lot of snowbirds down here, as far as Toronto people, L.A. people, and it was electric in there. It was so much fun. Imagine not liking sports. Yeah. You ever think, like, what would I do if I didn't like sports? Imagine being this. It would get you excited on a weekly.

That's a good point. How would you feel alive if you don't have four bets out there on teams you don't even know shit about, you know? I was talking with somebody about this the other day. Just in regards to like golf, they're like, do you still love to play? I was like, if I didn't play golf, I don't really know what I would do during the day. You'd have to get a hobby. Yeah. I mean,

I don't really play pickleball. I don't really want to go hike for seven hours. I don't know. You could be, I feel like you could be a nature guy. Free solo. Yeah, free gravy.

Yeah, exactly. I was like, I don't know what I do when I go home. All I do is like, what game's on? Yeah. What do we got? Like, I've rinse repeat for 52 weeks of the year,

minus the summer where we get a little, it's only baseball. But when it's good like that, man, especially in a game seven with everything on the line, there's just nothing better. Coming down the stretch, you've got to make plays

and both teams did. The Dodgers just made the last one. Will Smith. If your name is Will Smith, you've been a part of the last six World Series championship teams. Yeah, how about that? That's nice.

Pretty common name. I get it, but still. Pretty amazing. Yeah. The dude that hit the two-run Jack in the night two, by the way, that was his first home run off of whatever handed pitch. I can't remember if it was right versus left or left and right.

Yeah, it was the only one he'd hit. So wild shit. All right. Well, let's get to some gambling this week with our friends over Fanatic Sportsbook. We almost did it. A little three-team money-line parlay last week. We both loved Vanderbilt.

It was 17-0-0 before I blinked, and they did make a comeback in the fourth quarter, but it was too late. I still love Vanderbilt in that game. I want him to play it ten times. We'd win that parlay. Archmanning did finally have a game, though. Yeah, he did play good.

He played very good. But our other two, New England and the Broncos both hit. New England made it a little scary. But two for three, which doesn't really pay. So let's move on. Let's go to the next one. I got a couple winners here. All right.

We're going parlay in the NFL world, all three of them. Okay? The Colts coming off a loss against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Five turnovers. Yes. Yeah. The Falcon, so I'm betting against for the second week in a row. They lost in New England.

I know it was close. But I just don't think they're very good. I think Indianapolis is legit good. They just had a bad game, which that stuff happens. So give me the Colts. I like good teams off of bad games. Yeah. That's a rule of thumb.

All right. I'm going to take another team that they got. to have it right now. Three and five, but they got the guy back. The Baltimore Ravens money line over the Vikings with J.J. McCarthy, although he played good. Like they beat Detroit, which I would have never expected them to win that game. He played pretty good.

But Lamar versus JJ, Ravens still make a push for the playoffs, even after everything that's gone on. I'll take them money line straight up over bikes. All right. Our last one, the Carolina Panthers, they were supposed to be just horrendous. And I still don't think they're that good. But I believe they're five and four now. They're showing on the season, which they've already beat their win total for the year. They're playing a New Orleans Saints team who do not know which direction they're going in.

Can you name their quarterback? They're going down. Tyler Shook? Yeah. Yeah. Filled in for Spencer or Rattler. I don't know if he's playing this week or not. Ball nor.

But New Orleans is not good. Carolina, I think, has got a lot of confidence right now. I like them in that game. I know it's a division rival, but I still like Carolina. So we're going to go in our parlay this week. Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers. I like that. Do you have any college, like, just against some?

the spread. I got one. I'm going to throw up. Not part of the parlay. Independent bet. No, not really. I mean, I would have to lean towards Texas Tech. I don't know if BYU is ready. It's ready for some Lubbock, Texas. This is like, I don't know that any of these people from Provo are knowing what they're going to. I think it's a day game, though. If that thing was at night, I mean,

Lubbock at night is one of the most terrifying. When they're good like that, I mean, it is one of the hardest places to play. So I'm very interested to see how that game goes. Was, did you watch games? Game Day was Herb Street, like, excited about going to Lubbock? Or he was like, hopefully one of these teams loses so we don't have to go to Lubbock. I would have to imagine the latter. There's not, like, no offense to you.

I got friends that went to tech. I say it to their face. No one's trying to go to Lubbock. Yeah. Nobody wants to go. Especially if you're the visiting team, dude. I mean, they rock the buses. They throw piss.

They got the tortillas, you know, obviously they're coming out. It's going to be a different animal, but that's going to be a fun one to watch. I'm going to go with the team that I think is the best team in the country on the field, on paper, whatever you want to do. Indiana was just beating the shit out of people and they're on a mission, their coach doesn't care. They just blew out Maryland who's been good who seems to cover every single week.

They're giving up 14 and a half against Penn State and I think they'll take every opportunity to score as many points as they possibly can. I'll continue to ride them until they don't cover. I love it. All right. Well, that's our bets for the week in the football world. But the PGA Tour does return this week.

Worldwide Technologies Championship down in Cabo. This place is a birdie fest. if the wind doesn't blow like 40, which it can around Diamante. But this is, we're getting down to the nut cutting. Three tournaments left, people trying to get in that top 100.

It's a little close to home after my recent procedure. Sorry about that. Watch your mouth. Got a couple studs in the field, though. Ben Griffin's teaming up, JJ Spawn, Wyndham Clark scheduled to appear. He's got himself a place down there in Cabo,

so basically I'm home day. He's very comfortable, and that should, in theory, be a great course for him. All right. My bet of the week in the golf world, Listen, I don't know if it's a one-hit wonder. I've hardly seen the man play.

But he won in his last start, and it was on the PGA tour. He got a sponsor exemption. He went out and won in Utah. And this is what scares me a little bit because Taylor Montgomery and a bunch of his boys were here this weekend for his bachelor party. And several of the guys that have played on PGA Tour of America's know Michael Brennan very well. One man who's played with a lot of people told me he's the best player he's ever played with.

Jesus. Yes. From another fellow pro. Yes. And I'm just like, that's a bold statement. Yeah. He's like, I'm telling you, the kid can go. So I don't think the books realize that yet, but you can get Michael Brennan top 10 at plus 3.30. Top 10 plus 330.

Yeah. And this place is, once again, wide open, like Black Desert, except for Taylor Montgomery, apparently. But Michael Brennan smashes it. I mean, we're talking 190 mile an hour ball speed. Place should be perfect for him. Birdie Fest. Let's keep it rolling. I love it, by the way.

For another pro, the best guy I've ever played. I mean, they played with all the tour guys. That's high praise. And I feel like that's where you get the most accurate stuff is like the people that have played with them. So you always hear who's the next guy coming up? Corn Ferry guys, like this guy. They'll tell you. And it's always right.

You know this guy, I believe. Grant Booth. Yeah. Okay. So he's like, dude, I play in Vegas with Colin Morikawa, Minwoo, all these guys. And I tell him, like, hey, no offense, guys. But Michael Burnin's way better than y'all.

Damn. So here we go. Let's see what happens. I might fire on this just because this was a good sales pitch whether or not it goes. If it loses, grant, it's your fault. I'm going to take another guy who's like, call him an unproven commodity on the PGA tour because he's just not getting there. But he just won the points list on the Corn Fairy Tour.

He's pushing top 50 in the world without even having a PGA tour card, which is crazy. I wasn't even aware. That was what my bet did. I wasn't aware of something that you could actually do. But he's done it. I'm going to take him out of top 20, which is plus 220 still. Feel kind of the same way as you do. Like, he's really good.

Everyone on the Cornbury Tour points to him and says, this is the guy. This is the guy. I don't know Vegas knows how to handicap him yet. but give me Johnny Key for top 20 plus 220. I could go with a couple young bucks. Yeah. And like who wants to be there, you know what I mean? Like matters, I feel like.

Yeah, they're not grinding to keep their car. Mm-mm. Like they both are little bit more. They want to be there. Absolutely. Absolutely. This is like the most exciting time of their lives. Yeah.

I love it. It's going to be fun to watch down there in Cabo. Some boys need big weeks to make sure they have a job for 2026. Before we get to our very special guests, which is about to be in person here any minute, a little bitching to do. Okay. Let it out. TV, Disney, which is owns ESPN.

What are we doing? Okay, it's football season. Why can't these contract issues happen in the summer or after football season? Or just the not the day before football. I mean, come on. And then, by the way, I have ESPN Plus so I can watch PJ2 or live so I can study up on what we got to talk about every single week. And I watch game day on it. Then I switch over to the Vanderbilt Texas game.

Not available in your area. Switch over to the SMU, Miami game. Shout out SMU upset in the top 10 team in the country. Not available in your area. Go to Hulu bundle whatever. You made your Hulu account through a different party. Therefore, you have to go to them and change it. Don't know who that party is.

Couldn't figure it out. Tried to get ESPN unlimited, which I told was another thing you can pay for it and happen. Yeah, just got to pay more. Couldn't do it. Can't figure out. Normally I feel like things don't work until you're ready to pay more money. They're like, oh, but you can do this. I couldn't figure it out.

I gave up and just went to the bar. I can't. And it's all working into the hands at ESPN. Like they don't, you know, don't have it on YouTube. So what happens? Everyone's doing what you do. I got to watch football. They go to the app, download it.

They're all signing up for unlimited, whatever it is right now, and it's all going to work out. But doing it the night before, the day before, I should say. Football starts. Yeah. Like, look, we're American men. You know what I mean? We only like a couple things. Football in the fall is one of them.

You cannot mess with that. That's anti-American. Yeah. Y'all were not zoned in. I'll just say that. The reverse. The reverse. It's absolutely embarrassing.

Just want to throw that out there. They got to fix that. They better fix it soon. quick. They're going to have riots in the streets. I'm going to be calling DirecTV and just begging them to come back. I just come back. They're just looking at their chops right now. This is probably like a plan just every couple of years.

They just like, we'll have a fight. We'll just swap back and forth. We'll all pump our prices and we'll all be rich. All right. Let's get to our guests this week. He's about to be here live and in studio. You've seen him on the internet invitational. He's been all over social media for a decade with the Foreplay podcast over at Barstool.

Riggs joins us on subpar. All right, time to welcome back. A friend of the pod, one of the hosts over at Barstool Sports, the Four Play Pod, captain one of the squads at the Internet Invitational, which is going on right now, and a baddler of online haters, of which there are many. Our good friend Riggs is back in the house. Riggie, how are we doing? Good boys. Thanks for having me.

It's been a lot. Pleasure. Was that like four years ago? It's been a while. Jesus. Can't believe we still have a job. I can't believe either. This whole charade is still going.

Wow. Surrey's been paying for all this? That's the over. That's nice. That's all right. Before we get going and have some fun, which is what we're going to do, I do want to just send some condolences to you, the whole Barstool family, Cody Frankie, aka Beef, who passed away recently, man.

That was a tough one. I got to meet him with you. I did y'all's pot at the PJ Championship. There's not a nicer human on the planet. Man, he really was just the nicest. It's been, obviously, an insanely, like, sad week. It's been kind of a roller coaster of a week just with, like, the Beef News, and then these videos coming out, which is,

It's like, obviously those two things aren't comparable, but it's like he's in him. So we're talking with his family about, you know, we're supposed to release him. We find out the news. It's like, what are we going to, what should we do? His family was adamant that like, no, this is what he loved to do. So if these are like some of the cooler moments of his life, like we absolutely want him all to come out. So it's been obviously a very emotional like week. It's still insanely raw.

But beef was just the nicest dude on the planet. We've been talking with Ferris State. I think we're going to try to set up like a scholarship endowment fund. at the Ferris State PGA management school, which is where he went. He talked about it all the time he loved it there. But yeah, super sad. I do know that, like, his family reached out to us and just said that, like, the outpouring of love has been, like, blowing them away, which is cool. And all the stories, everybody's got, like, a pretty cool anecdote from their time with beef and everything.

And so, so, yeah, very sad. But at least there's a little bit of, like, wow, he was very, he was very important. impactful for a lot of people and he really like the guy just fucking love golf yeah and dude in a world where like no one can be on a screen and have everyone like a person it seems like the not i haven't heard one person say like bad things about him which i think speaks volume because you could hate they'll find a way to hate mother teresa online yeah we're just talking about it off camera it's like no matter what you can have the nicest what you think's like the nicest person who came out on a video and they played well and they were funny and engaging and then you look in like 30

percent of the comments are just roasting that person. And yeah, every, every story, the amount of people that kind of have just reached out and been like, oh, I, you know, I just met B for five minutes here, there. And he, he chatted with me about God knows what. There's all these stories coming out from the Chicago office about how he would stay late at at work with people once they finished up their work and they'd go to the simulator and hit balls. He'd stand there on his phone, combing through like their move and where they're at and trying to help them. And that's just kind of how he was all the time. And he, Truly, like I saw one guy tweeted a video at us of he was at, I guess it was in July. He was at the PGA of America Frisco. He's down there for some event. It's PGA show summertime or something like that. And the guy tweeted that like, yeah, like 9 o'clock at night after beef had been on his feet all day. Here's a video of him like helping a kid like learn how to put. And he's just, you know, going through it.

So you're just like the guy loved golf and like, yeah. If everybody was kind of like beef, I think the whole world. would be a lot less problematic. It would be amazing. No doubt about it. It sucks, ma'am. For everyone. That was one of the first things I know.

First time I met him, I was like, damn. A guy, take his hat up or anyone, for that matter. Yeah, dude. Shout up to him. Yeah, glad we got to address that. Let's move on to some fun stuff here, the Internet Invitational, which we're filming this right now. The third episode just came out.

Third of six. By the way, hold on a second. Okay. I was like, you know what? I'm going to watch this. I'm going to give it a go. This is the biggest thing in you, YouTube golf.

Biggest thing it's ever happened in YouTube golf. First episode three hours and 27 minutes. I was like,

what the hell is? I thought they were doing six episodes. Dude, I said the same thing to Brendan, our executive producer. When he, you know, because he,

poor guy, he's been underwater for three months just trying to get all this stuff edited. And it is a laughable task. I mean, it's 48,

you know, people that are playing. There's 12 matches going on at a time. Plus, you've got Dave and Big Cat and all these other personalities miced up.

You've got cameras on them. And so, somehow having to piece all that together, tell the story, show the drama. And it's not like you just cut and show the golf shots. Like, that wouldn't be what YouTube golf is. It's kind of the whole reason we came up with the idea was that like, no, YouTube golf is just about, like golf is this incredible vehicle for entertainment. That's like when you're sitting in the cart, the cart cam, like the banter between you and your partner or the catty or the churping of the other team or whatever it is.

It's like this great vehicle for entertainment. That's why YouTube golf exists. It's not just to see good golf shots. And so you're trying to, like, showcase all that over the course of 12 matches while also capturing, like, you know, if, if Page is, like, following a live leaderboard of my match and sees that my match, like, goes to one down on the last whole of a sudden. That then affects the way that she, like, reacts to how she's approaching her shot and what she says to her partner, Roger Steele. So, like, you need to somehow convey all of that of, like, the context that the players have in real time. and what they know and don't know and all that. So, long story short, when I saw the first, you know,

Brendan sent us the first edit, he's like, why don't you guys take a look at this? It was like four and a half hours. And I was like, what, what are we going to do with that? I thought it was going to be 45 minutes or an hour and a half or something. That's like as long as our videos get. And he's like, no, dude, like this is, he's like, my first cut was like nine hours. And I got it down to three and a half eventually.

So I'm thinking no one's going to watch that. And they're like, no, long videos play on YouTube, whatever. And then sure enough, you know, we were all looking at the views. when we launched it on Tuesday, the first episode, and it was off the charts. Like, the retention rate is like 50 plus minutes, which, you know, for anybody, that's an eternity nowadays.

We look, you know, and it's not, social's different than YouTube, but like on Instagram, I want to say, like, I think the retention rate is like 1.2 seconds. So, like, the retention rate. That's who we are. Yeah, right. The retention rate on the,

and YouTube is like an embedded platform. You're there to watch it. But like, almost an hour, is kind of the retention rate. So yeah, it's been insane. The drama from it, like the social takeover, all that has been, it's been fucking wild. That's been a huge help. I feel like whether, I don't think it's scripted, but like when you put 48 different

personality, I think the goal is like, we've got to have some shit happen here. It can't just be everyone getting along, Kumbaya, oh, you guys beat us, good job. And you've, you've gotten it. I'm sure there's more to come, but this Luke Kwan thing took the internet, golf internet by storm. Yeah, I think it's funny because when we were looking back, you know, I was trying to think after we finished, we're all happy. We all thought it went well. We all thought the drama was crazy, whatever.

And looking back, I didn't even think about the Luquan situation. That's like how many other things happen and like how good it gets. And it didn't even occur to me. And now, you know, like, I would go up again and shit. I was the captain of the opposing team. So I was already happy that he slept in. And I already said thank you to him. But I would go up to him again.

I'd be like, the best thing that happened was you sleeping in. It was like, took a. over the internet. It sucks for him. And, you know, I, like, kind of a crazy amount of piling on for someone that just slept in. And like, so I feel, I honestly feel like bad for Luquan to a degree. And he could have handled it better afterwards. We all could handle shit better in our whole lives. So whatever. But for him to then go to like this super villain because he just like slept in and then wasn't overly apologetic, it's like probably not worth how much shit he's gotten. But that's also sort of the Dave Port knowing like Barstall effect of like I think a lot

of the golf YouTube world is a little bit of kumbaya and a little bit of like, you know, it's it's tummy sticks and everybody's like happy and everybody's great at the game of golf and it's, you know, whatever. And then you get into, there's a little bit of that barstool effect of like, we will call you out for your bullshit. We will hold everybody accountable and people will like gravitate towards conflict. That's sort of like how barstow operates. It's how Dave Portnoy operates and the second that he kind of sniff something out, Dave was all over that. And then I was lobbying. I was like, kick him off the tour because he's the best player. I was like, don't let him play. And I was going to the rules officials being like, if you miss your tea time,

you don't get to just show up on the second hole and be won down. I was like, that's bullshit. So did Dave's making the ruling because Dave had made the call of like, I'm the, I'm the final rules. He's like, I do have rules people that know the rules and they will tell me what the rules are, but I will make the final ruling. And so then he's like four whole band. And I was like, incredible. That's all right. And you lose.

Yeah, right, right. Also, you talk about just how much traction it may. Like, I know biz was there, but I believe three or four nights after the first episode launched, he was doing NHL on TNT. They show the Carolina Hurricane game, which is just a blowout. And he's like, oh, we call this the alarm clock game. He's like, shout out Luke Kwan or something like that. I was like, I mean, this thing is just.

It's going nuts. No, it was everywhere. It was like trending on Twitter. I mean, he had to release you a 20 minute apology video. I saw it. It was like, I mean, dude, it was like one of those scandals when they break. And someone asked him. I was like, dude, he slept there.

I think it was the other shit that got everyone worked up. Like I was talking to Whitney texting with him the last like few days and stuff. And it was like, you know, all the things you would imagine. But it was more like, dude, he came in was rude and then didn't apologize. That was like the issue. Not that you slept in. Huge part of it. And like, yeah, that's sort of, I think Dave made that point too.

He's like, dude, if if Luke Kwan came to the second. disheveled, rushing bag over his shoulder. I'm like, I'm so fucking sorry. Can I play this? You know, Dave's like, yeah, he probably doesn't get a penalty. But he's like, comes in, whatever. Didn't he handle it great? It was kind of nonchalat, which that's also like, I love Luke.

I think he's a really funny dude. His brand is sort of this like nonchalant, like sort of like go with the flow, whatever, doesn't like care about it that much. It's sort of like his brand to a degree, him and his boys. And so like that just didn't play in that environment. And, you know, the format that we came up with, creates this survivor-like mentality. Like, that's kind of what we're going for.

So when you are paired up, you know, like, you're, you need every point because you have to survive. That's it. You know, it's not like, oh, I had a bad match, but like, I can get him tomorrow. It's like, no, if you lose, you're gone. You're just, you're going home. Yeah, half the field's gone after day one. Day one.

And so. Which, what y'all thought was going to be a guaranteed point because he's so good. He's gone. He's really good. And he was just, it was like, and all the teammates, Whitney, all these guys, like, you fly all way to the old. goes arcs. You're playing your ass off. You care about it a lot. And then you've got this other guy who like sleeps through a tea time, which is outrageous, 930. Which is outrageous. I can sleep. Yeah, no shit.

And then doesn't seem to care that much. And you're kind of like, well, this is like the biggest thing golf wise I've ever played it. And so I care a lot. So yeah, all that coming together was again, a bummer for him and a bummer for his team. But as the captain of the other team and as one of the people that put on the event, fantastic that that happened. Yeah. Before we get back to Rick, I want to tell you about Shady Ray's. If you're serious about your golf game, your vision on the course matters. That's where Shady Ray's golf collection comes in.

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So you finished the morning match. You got to go back out for alternate shot in the afternoon. Whose pump-up speech was better? Yours or Coach Gruden's? So I didn't know, okay. That was kind of unfair for you to have to go to tone. I didn't know the Gruden speech happened. Like, we're over on the other.

I was ready to go. Oh, my gosh. Same. I said, if I had heard that, we wouldn't even have played it in the afternoon. We would have been like, we're done. The Gruden speech was insane for him to finish it with like Kwan on three.

And then Gruden's playing with him and rallying them the whole time. But yeah, we had heard a little bit of hooting and hollering like they were on the other side of the clubhouse, whatever, up at Paines Valley. And then so we kind of were just, we were pretty methodical, right? We're like going through our pairings.

We're in a good spot. Here's what we're going to do. Maybe we're going to shift a couple things with Lacey and Francis and whatever. And then we hear a little bit of, hoot and hoowering over there. And I was like, no, no, stick to the plan, lock in guys. Do your business. Do your job.

Next man. You know, whatever. And then they were like, oh, yeah, Griggs. Give us a little pump up speech. And I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll come up with something. Sure. I didn't know in the edits. They're going to be like, here's Brun.

Here's Briggs. Where are your thing? It's like, fuck. I mean, Gruden was like, you dug us this hole. You're going to dig us out of it. And I was like, God dare. I was like, I was like, I want to play for him. Same.

Same. Same. Yeah. So how did him with Barstool even come about? I think. I know. I believe Dave got put in contact with him somehow. And it was when he had become, you know, he wasn't coaching. He wasn't doing Money Night Football anymore. And Dave, I think was just like, you know, would you come work at Barstool?

And we've done plenty of, like, celebrity, whatever, cloud. have clout built hires before. And sometimes they work out. Most of the time they really kind of don't. Where it's like you get an initial pop. It's nice. But like this is our world. The most successful people kind of in the barstool universe are like homegrown where Dave found them.

They were literally nobody's. And they built up and came through barstool. Hired Gruden. And Gruden has been one of the greatest hires in history. He has bought in a hundred percent. He's legit so into it that we fly them down to the Ozarks and he's given pop-up speeches like they're ready to go out for the second half the Super Bowl. So it's like he has been, he does everything.

He does every video series. Anybody asks him? He's doing like chicks in the office videos. He's doing golf videos. He's on the coverage for, you know, our NFL programming. He's just the best. So, yeah, him too, in the cart with Kwan, like gassing him up. That episode two was unbelievable.

His golf swings pretty good. But, yeah, he's a lot. You're putting stroke is shit, bud. We got to work on that. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I know a thing too about a shit putting stroke. Yeah, but yours go in most of the time. Thank you.

Thank you. You are a pretty good putter. Selfishly, I hope he stays around for forever because any time he's in front of a camera, I want to see it. I want to hear what he's saying. There's no way he's not getting calls from the SEC. With all these openings right now,

like if he wants the coach again, I got to think he's got a job. What a crazy, like, I can't wrap my head around hirings in college football. I just can't wrap my head around. It's like, Ryan Kelly thing, I just will never comprehend. There's like got to be so many phenomenal,

like up and coming assistant coaches. Think about how many programs. There are all that. And it's like this, I guess he's had the success system. It's like this guy that nobody can say a nice thing about anywhere ever. And they're like, we're going to put our whole program behind that guy. And then we're going to have to, I guess it was going to be a $50 million about. Now it's what, they lowered it to $28 million.

Yeah, they found some clause on morality or something. But it's like they end up going with somebody that everybody is like not a single positive story to say. And then pay a $28, $30, $50 million buyout just to get. rid of them. It's like there's got to be better. This is your whole program. Yeah. Boston guy faking the Southern accent on day. I was like, dude, if you don't win a national championship, they'll love you. Anything but

that, they're going to drive grass out of her first chance. Point is, I think Gruden, I mean, yeah, who wouldn't give Gruden a look? Oh, dude, I think he's got to be getting calls from all of them right now. Somebody said recently, they're like, I think they're like, the internet invitational might get Gruden another job. Just because they watch that speech. I want them on TV, though. I get more of them. But I got, especially since he said, like, earlier, he's like, I'd love the coach in the SEC.

It's like, all right, if I'm Auburn or any of these schools, he'd be one A or one B. First time I ever met Gruden, we were doing our Barstool mini golf tournament that we always do during the Masters. And I never met him before. At this point, he had been like six months in the Barstool universe. So he had been pretty big. I followed him. He followed me. He's a big golfer.

She kind of like knew, but I had never met him. And he was actually on the other team playing against. And he had had a match, and he was sitting down on a bench, exhausted. And I just finished my match. And I walked by him and he just tasked me. He goes, Riggs, you can really roll the rock, man. I said. Hold on say that again.

I go, thanks, coach. And he goes, I just noticed that man. And that was it. And that was it. He's awesome. You say that right into this camera right here as I could tell the 10,000 people that tell me. It was so good. It would be interesting to see how long he sticks.

He's good energy, man. Great energy. It's always better when he's in the room. And that's what makes this thing cool. Honestly, like this internet invitation. If you want to hate YouTube golf, it's fine. I got it. Like, there's so many different.

personalities. You got a bunch of dudes from Barstool that aren't golfers that are great personalities. What is, I don't know how close Dave's got a lot going on. I'm sure. I don't know how closely keeps his ear to the streets in terms of like golf social media, but when he got down there, like, hey, we're having this thing. And all of a sudden he meets these people. Like, what was his take on some

of the characters? Like Duke and these guys, you know. It's funny because Dave, Dave, I would expect to be very, like, tangentially into the whole thing and kind of like keeping an arm's length, whatever. He was incredibly into it.

And he, you know, I was on the first tea with him the first day. And he really, I think he had like a cheat sheet that his like, you know, one of his guys whipped up. That was like, here's what you need to know about this person, that person. But every guy that walked onto the tea, he was pretty much amazed by. And it was a wild mix. I mean, it was like, D.O.D. King would roll up, right? And then Dave, literally, you can't make this up.

Dave looks at him. And Dave's just trying to figure out how to flip a tea to determine who goes first and just looks at him and goes, you got a tea on you? Dead serious. And so DoD King's like, no, I don't use a tea. And Dave's like, what? And then sniffs that out. And DOD's like, yeah, it's like, you know, my thing. I hit it. And Dave's like, well, you know, I kind of, it puts a fear in the opponent. Dave's like, oh, so you just did a gimmick and now you're stuck doing it forever. DoD's like, yeah, yeah. Pretty much that's it. I made one video and people watch it. But then like the next guy that rolls up is like Chas. And Chaz rolls up there.

My favorite. He's the best. My favorite. It's not even close. He's just, he's got such. What a move he's got too. Good energy. Great, great move. And doesn't miss a fairway.

He steps up, pipes went down the middle. And Dave's just like, this is an unbelievable world that I'm in. He's like, what is happening with all these people? So, and then I remember at one point, too, he looked back and it had been like, you know, it had been like Kyle Berkshire hit like a two iron, like 350 yards down the middle. Joshua Kelly piped it down the middle. D.O.D puts one on the ground, smokes it on the middle. F.P. smokes it on the middle.

And then like. I'm up and do what I do. And then he's like, well, no wonder I get so many comments that are like, how come Riggs is your golf guy? He sucks. He's like, everybody else is good. I was like, well, yeah, there's a lot of good players in this world. What kind of scores does Chazzy shoot?

Because I've watched, I've watched two and a half episodes now, and the dude hadn't missed a shot. Dude, I think he is, I believe he is the highest ranked adaptive golfer in the world. God. Yeah. He moves, like, yeah, he moves it. I know. He's got, he's pound for pound long as dude.

He's like Berkshire. And he is fiery. He's competitive. But yeah, I don't know what his like handicap is. I don't know if he's like a two or scratch. I imagine it depends on the T's like he's not hit it overly far. But he's not hitting it nowhere either. Like he's getting it out there.

But he can, man, he can play some golf. He's a good player. I love him. Let's talk about the Duke. Where the fuck did this guy come from? Howdy he called? He's a special critter. Dude, the Duke came from Robbie.

burger. Yeah, you found him. I found him and put them all over his Instagram when they played together for the first time and was just going like line by line of what the Duke was saying, what the Duke was doing. And it got insane traction on Bob's Instagram. And then, you know, when we're coming up with this list, like this list of 48 people

was very hard to come up with. It's like, who we're going to cut, who are going to invite? What, who's in the space, you know, whatever. And like, it ended up all kinds of drama in the barstool world. and Bob was like, the Duke has to be in this event. And we were like, okay. And sure enough, we invite the Duke. And he was incredible.

I mean, Dave's like, I think that's the funniest person I ever met. And also the Duke, like, I think the Duke is still at Big Cedar Lounge. Yeah. I think he just. I don't know what he's got to race home for. I think he just was like, yeah, no, I'm not leaving. I'm just going to keep going because every time I look, he's posting. He's like, by a lake, he's shirtless.

He's ripping a dart. He's playing golf. But yeah, the Duke is you cannot make up the Duke. And the fact that you could have like Brad Dalke and the Duke in the same tournament is incredible. That's a good tournament. Yeah, I think Bobby, I remember talking to Bobby right when it first came out. Like he just signed up, like, play golf by public golf out in L.A. When they were living out there, it got paired up with this dude on the first he ran.

It was like, holy shit. So he was like putting him on his Instagram story. And the dude was just lighting the world on fire. And then all of a sudden he became like a real thing. Duke's got to think like what the hell happened. He just showed up for his regular Saturday game and all of a sudden. Dude, the Duke too was just like we were kind of come up. with pairings and matchups.

And the Duke would just, you know, everybody would have kind of a take, like, page, you'd be like, well, I think because he hits it longer, you know, you should really think about mixing them. And Duke would be like, Rick, I'm just so happy to be here. I don't care. Just think about me anywhere. I'll run through a wall for you. He was great.

He was great. He was awesome. There's special parts with him. They had to blur out a few things. Yep. Yeah, no, he, you know, he's the Duke. Like, it's part of you. He is who he is.

Yeah. You're going to get some stuff. I had heard about this other guy, but I didn't know how good he was. And like I said, I've just seen a little bit of the videos. Peter Finch is ridiculous. How far does this guy hit the ball? Dude, so I also didn't know, I guess people were saying that he had made a really conscious effort in the last year, two years to, like, change his game and get like, and he is, he was, you know, there's like a tier of players that we sort of had that is, you know, it's, it's the Brian Bros and Kwan and Dolky and like Finch is in that. I mean, he was, he was hitting it a mile.

and just didn't really have any holes in his game. And he's got that, dude, he's got those, like, big quads. He's a big human. You know, yeah, and just kind of puts everything into it. He, like, does everything I don't do, like, uses his fucking lower body and the big muscles. He just absolutely smashes the ball and was hitting it. So solid, so straight. Yeah, he was, he played really, really well.

And it's not, again, it's like you don't have nine-hole matches go by very quickly. And so it's like all this buildup and all this and one thing to go wrong. And if you're one or two down in a nine hole match, like the next thing you know, it's over. And so like to play consistently throughout and like impress and bring it and all that hoopla is like not the easiest thing. And yeah, he was, he's a really good player. Well, you're currently two down with two to play when I stopped watching to come here to film this. Oh shit. Damn it.

Did you clutch up? I don't give away anything. Yeah. No spoilers. No spoilers. But you said like, you know, I've forgotten about the Luke Quant. even though that like took over. So I'm safe to assume.

I just don't remember. There's more shit to come. There's drama wise. Portnoy's, Portnoy tweeted today. He's like, just wait. He goes,

y'all will all forget about the Luke Juan. Oh, really? Luke's probably like release. Yeah, let's shirn this shit out. Let's Netflix this thing and just put it all out. Yeah, no, it's,

yeah, I mean, the drama gets, gets crazy. And at the end, I mean, at the, the way the format works is like,

there will be, there will be four teams of three in the, the third round that will be play an alternate shot on the new cliffhangers par three course 18 holes four teams of three four teams of three alternate shot alternate shot alternate shot alternate shot in the top two teams out of those four advanced to a championship you keep the same teams and the championship is 18 holes uh alternate shot stroke play on a real on the real or a match match match play on the Paines Valley, Tiger Woods course. So like, it gets to the point where it's like, you know, we have all these matches going on. Then like pretty quickly by round three, it's like very clear.

There's one leaderboard, four balls in play. And then there's just two teams of three. And whichever team wins is splitting a million dollars between three people. Before we get back to Riggs, you've probably seen a million ads for hair growth products and thought, sure, like that actually works. I did too until I found out that Nutraful isn't like the rest of them. Nutraful is the number one dermatologist recommended hair growth supplement brand, trusted by over 1.5 million people. And now, Nutraful is the official hair growth partner of Major League Baseball. You can feel great about what you're putting into your body since Nutraful hair growth supplements

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That was all the time. That was phenomenal. Yeah, no, we, that's always a concern. We did, you know, we had people sign like Indy AIDS. Yeah. But still, that's pretty easy to, to violate. But, yeah, people have been good about it, too. I've been in some, I've been in some moments, too, like within the first couple weeks after the Invitational finished up,

where I was, like, with someone who had a big role in it and they were giving, like, an interview. And they were asked a question. and then watching them get through it and then come over to me afterwards and be like, that was really hard for me. Did I place it right there? Yeah, it was just like, but no, everybody's done a really good job.

And yeah, we were kind of like, hey, take all the footage you want while you're here on your own cell phones with your own, you know, but, you know, don't release anything until the episodes air. And everybody's been amazing. I'm watching like a lot of the behind the scenes, folks even that are like releasing like, okay, day two.

And they've got their own like cell phone footage from sitting in the car. cart with their guy or girl or whatever. So yeah, no, people have been really good about it. And like, I kind of said it on our show, but it's, you can't send enough of appreciation to everyone because it doesn't work if the people don't show up. Yeah. Like, you know, so for us to like build the whole thing, invite everyone, we all travel a lot. A lot of people are looking to travel less, like, not more. A lot of people are looking to kind of build out their own channels and their own video series. And if you're going to go spend three, four, five days somewhere on like a work trip,

you want it to be usually like growing your own thing or whatever collaboration with that so for people to come and be like we're going to put our effort in we're going to buy in right like you see how passionate and like fucking fired up people were about the matches and and the outcome and everything is like and how mad they were at lukewan right that's like people are buying into it so that to us meant the world because it's like you could build the whole thing and if if half the people are like eh we're just not that interested we don't show up and then the other half that show up are like yeah i guess

i'll play but whatever then it doesn't work but instead it's like we've really captured that fire that people have and it makes it real and like that part's fun the video's awesome bernan done an awesome job i mean golly it's it's it's it's the real deal it's been fun to watch uh two more things before we drop the internet invitation here one in one of the parts i was just watching um your man trit ryan was on the tea okay not playing but uh it was from behind okay he had a tailor-made hat on it was on the last button of the snapback here look on how big is this man's head you're not going to get me You're not going to get me to dog Trent right.

No, not dog him. I'm just wondering if we can get him a bigger hat. I, you know, or smaller head. Or a piece. That's what you got to graduate. I'm a huge headed guy. It's not weird to have a last. I do know, you know, that Trent is a bit self-conscious about, like, especially

when it gets to like the U shape, you know, or like a V almost it turns into on the last one. You know, who else would have that was Lurch. Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. Lurch would get that on his hat a lot. Yeah, no, we got to get him a bigger hat. That's not the look. That's not fair to him either.

I love him. I feel bad. He's also one of the nicest men ever. But then my favorite part of the whole thing so far that just came out today is him and FP, Fat Perez, sitting in the cart, just watching golf and talking about food. Starts off with the donuts, then works their way to pizza and cereal. It was all time. Just two kindred spirits in there, you know, and you get them on a topic like that.

There's no show behind any of that. There's no, like, calculation behind any of that. That's just two guys who love. food with a passion. With a passion of a thousand sons just talking through food. And yeah, what was it? The jelly donut. Yeah, so he talked about it.

They talked about how they really like strawberry sprinkled donuts. And then FP said, what about jelly? He's like, and Trent's like, no, no. And he's like, I'm just really concerned where the jelly will go. He's like, yeah, I totally understand that. And it was like, well, maybe in the privacy of my own home. Like, I mean, it was just beautiful. It almost seems scripted, but I know it wasn't.

The fact, once again, shout out to y'all's teams that you kept a camera on these two. and Kappa miced up because it was just, it was all time. And then they go into the part where they talk about how he's like, I got a fairly root for both teams. And they're falling wrong,

Paige Sprannick, Peter Finch, and I can't remember who they were playing. But, and FP's like, you know, you got to be careful rooting for Paige. Like,

keep it normal. And he's like, what do you mean? He's like, it's just not going to come across grade if you, like, get really excited when Paige does something.

So then Paige makes like a six footer and he goes, woo! And FP is just like, what the hell? He's like, I was an unenthusiastic. You can't watch this match. He's like, he's like, you've never made that sound in your life.

We got to get out of here. We just got to get out of here. Yeah, it's like watching like TB12 and Peyton talk like throwing the pig scouts. So you got those two guys talking food. Yeah, no, and that's a huge part of it too is like being able to capture that kind of stuff is what makes this whatever YouTube golf world what it is. It's not just the golf. It's like, you know, this entertainment factor. And so, yeah, trying to come up with a format where it was like we could have all these different individuals essentially have the same chance of winning is hard to do and capture it in a survivor-like kind of format.

And, you know, it started with what I would consider like a 30% comprehensible text from Dave because Dave doesn't fully like get golf formats and stuff. So he would send, you know, we have this whole group text with like all the Bob does guys and all of us. There's a couple behind the scenes folks and like Dave's on it. And we're trying to come up with the format. And we all kind of like, oh, we'll do a Ryder Cup or we'll do like, you know, whatever. Come enter with a team of four and like, what you had all these different ideas. And then Dave sends this text that is like, you know, let's go each round, eliminations and skins or something. And we're like, so then we all call each other like, what the fuck do you think he means by that?

I was going to tell him. Because you can't, if you ask the group text, Dave might respond and be like, are you an idiot? You know, so you're like, well, I can't let him think that I'm an idiot. So then we would, at one point, Frankie said he put one of Dave's text into chat GBT. It was like, what do you think this means chat GBT? And trying to comb through. And that's kind of what Dave meant was like, each round you eliminate half of the people. And so we were able to kind of get to that part as a group.

And then the next one, we were able to get to you. And then eventually we were like putting an alternate shot versus. is like scramble. And then he's like, okay, what about, I also like the like best ball format. We're like, no, no, that like, do you mean where everybody hits and you pick the best ball? And he's like, I think so.

And we're like, that's scramble. He's like, I like, I like scramble. Like, all right, good. So it was like trying to comb through all that stuff to get to the format was, was like fun and difficult. But we wanted to like, it's tricky because you can't like handicaps and strokes, you lose people. Yeah.

You know, so you just kind of lose people. And then we also want. wanted everybody to play from the same T's because from a filming aspect that's tricky and from like a camarader or whatever you want to call it aspect. It's if like Paige and Claire Hogle are like going up and waiting two T-boxes up while Roger and Finchie are like hitting back here, then they're not interacting with each other. So we wanted everybody to play same teas. But we also wanted it at the end where we didn't just want it to be like Dalke and Wesley Brian against, you know, quite like you're trying to be like what if like the Duke?

has a huge chip on the 17th hole. That's what we want. For a million dollars. You know what I'm saying? Like that, how do we get to that? How do we get to that and have it be fair? And I think we did the best we could.

Everybody kind of bought into the format, which like we didn't tell anyone the format. Nobody knew. So everybody flew to the Ozarks, arrived, knew we were playing for at least a million dollars. They didn't know if that was split by one person, 10 people. If it was Ryder Cup,

if it was stroke, like nobody had any idea. And so we revealed the format. And again, luckily everybody was very into it. Yeah, it's worked out. It's got a lot of buzz right now. It's going to be fun to watch it.

Six episodes, correct? We're on three right now. Six episodes. So, yeah, we've got Thursday of this week, and then I believe Monday and Thursday of next week. I'm rooting for the Duke. I don't want to see what Duke does with his split. Well, he reports for days. He already broke down how many cigarettes he can buy, like not packs or not cartons,

just individual cigarettes. What was the number? Do you know what that number was? It was probably pretty high. He was just trying to do it because they want a skin. And I think it was like, they went like $8 grand out of the gate. He's like, oh, my God, four grand. You want me cigarettes I can buy with this?

That's it. The dude. He is the man. Before we get back to Riggs, for the first time ever, we're giving you guys a discount at shop.golf.com. Use code subpar 15 to get 15% off all gear. Birdie juice, teas, hats, whatever you want. The holidays are coming up, so it's the perfect time to grab a fit.

Or treat yourself. Head to shop.golf.com and check it out. Now back to Riggs. Let's go to. Is there going to be... Haters? Is there going to be an invitational, too? Yes. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah. We have a, I think like the week after the final airs, we have our first big, like, debrief kind of meeting, and we're going to kind of figure out what we want to do. But we are, so like next week we're going to put the final. We'll be on Internet Invitational YouTube channel. We wanted to leverage, like, the Bob guys following and our following to, like, crank the views early. But we want to build, like, its own, you know, entity, its own channel, its own social handles and all that. So we're going to put Internet Invitational.

the final on internet invitational YouTube channel. And then we're also going to release, you know, obviously next year we want to do another one. We might try to do multiple, try to figure out how we can do more events. But we're at least going to like run it back to a degree. And then I believe there's such a demand like Gruden, you know, and like biz in a match that like we have that entire match.

Yeah. Like we have the whole thing. We didn't put every shot out. So we're going to just like release those full matches as YouTube videos on the internet invitational. channel over the next, you know, year and just kind of roll all that stuff out. And then, yeah, we're going to, you know, we, so like, we entered with, with Bob Does guys and Dave and us. We, like, created our own joint venture. So this is, like, its own entity, essentially, that

that we wanted to do so that we could, like, really showcase that, hey, it's not us coming in saying, we know everything best. You guys are very valuable in this. We want your input. You're as invested as we are. And so we're trying to, like, build this thing that's repeatable and that has a lot of energy and all that. And so, yeah, there will be another one for sure. Awesome. I love it. Where are we at with your golf game personally?

I've been seeing you out of the rock grinding. Yeah. Getting a little coaching as well from Bobby. Bobby's been great. Bobby's great. Bobby gets you proper. Give Bobby a little love. Dude, Bobby's been.

Bobby, too, is so invested in my game, which I love. Yeah. Where it's like, I've worked with a couple of people. They've all been great and gotten me to wherever I could get to. But what I love about Bobby's heel, send me like long if I have like a hater match coming up the next couple days or something and I'll test to be like hey I know we got some stuff to work on this this winter stuff but like I need to get through like Wednesday have a big match Wednesday and they'll send me like a mix of like inspirational

stuff and some like key stuff that makes me like kind of laugh and then also kind of be like yeah it's my fucking guy I like it um my game's probably the best it's ever been right now really oh boy now I had a you know I had a little bit of up and down year but if people look the hater matches that I do four and O in the hater matches this year. I beat the one guy from Philly, three and two. I beat the guy, the Oyster Fama from Massachusetts, one up with a putt on the 17th or the 18th Hullet Raven. And then Vinny, who was everybody's favorite villain at Wicopai,

beat him seven and six. I hated that guy. Was that muscled up guy? Yeah. He played the back teeze. Meatball. Oh, yeah. Why don't we play into it?

Who demands that we play the back team. He shot 75 on like the front. Yeah, so I shot even on the front at Wicopat and beat him seven and six. And then I beat Kirk three and two, giving him four and a half shots in front of his home gallery. Having said that, I also shot 106 at Oakmont. Tough golf course. Tough golf course. Tough golf course.

That happens. Tough golf course. It could happen. And then I also finished quad triple par to shoot 90 and lose 25 grand at Pasa Tampa. So like quad triple par. Yeah, quad. I watched that. Yeah, I watched that actually. Yeah, the MLB guy.

Yeah. Really nice guy. So like, so again, there's a lot of positives, but there's also some negatives in there. The Kirk match, because that's personal. Yeah, Kirk and I have an interesting relationship. This isn't the view. You can just air it out, you know? No, but I mean it that way. Like, I don't, on any given day, I don't know if Kirk is like one of my best friends at Barstool or if he hates me. Truly. Like, Kirk and I, you know, like, I'll tell you when,

when we announced the news last week of beef's passing, the first phone call I got was from Kirkmanette. And I pick up the phone. He just goes, what the fuck? And I was like, I know, dude. And he's like, what the fuck? Jesus. He's like, I'm so sorry.

We talked about it for like five, 10 minutes. And so like, you know, he, yet he'll also, like, who knows, next week, he might see something that I said and do an entire 45 minutes on how I'm like the biggest fraud at Barstall. So you just don't know with Kirk, which is why I got a lot in that way. Yeah, right.

That's like we've always been. So I didn't mean it in like a cheeky, like the view kind of way. Like I truly don't know where I stand with Kirk in any given moment. Kirk, Kirk is, I think, one of the funniest people we got. That's like one of the only podcasts at all of Arsenal that I actually listened to is the Kirk Menehan show. Just because he's got this incredible ability to like do an entire show about his own show.

Like he'll do a whole show about his producers and who they're moving in or out with other people, you know, whatever. He just, that's kind of how he does it. it. But he also, he, you know, took issue with us not inviting him to play in the internet invitational. And he thought that I stabbed him in the back. And so he would just, and he's got a very rabid following. And so for just months, he was like digging at us and largely me. It's cannibalism. And he eventually was like, I want to play you in one of these hater matches. I was like, all right. And then we were going to do it in Pioneers. And I was like, hey, more I thought about it.

Like, we should do it with like your thing, which your thing is your crazy audience. so we should go to Boston and do it. He was like, agreed. So we set it up. He had like 250 or 300 people showed up at 9 a.m. on a Wednesday and played. And it was really fun. He'll get to do that environment very often. Yeah, I feel like you interacted with the gallery in a really nice way.

I saw you. I mean, showed a little emotion on one put that I saw. It's funny because I didn't have my phone the whole time. You know, I was like Frankie had me locked in, phones in my bag on silent, whatever. So then we finish up, took four hours. whatever it was, finish up. I, like, chugged a truly. And then, like, some other guy came over to me.

It was like, you wanted to, Riggs, I got you, a Dr. McGillacuddy shot. Oh, the doctor, yeah. He's like, you want to do one? I was like, of course I want to do one. So he did a shot real quick. And then, like, we get up and I finally pull my phone out. And I look, and I look on Twitter. And it's just like, it says, first of all, it says, like, David Riggs Portnoy, which

was weird and wrong. But it was like, David Riggs Portnoy under scrutiny for, like, vulgarity telling crowd of co-hosts fans to like suck his dick. I was like, oh God. To dilate him respectfully. I was like, what happened out there while we were playing? But yeah, I was pretty into it with the crowd. Yeah.

No, they were chirping pretty hard. Yeah. That was cool. That was cool. You went up there and did it. Yeah. Yeah. And having the live crowd too makes it better because they can talk shit and I'm sure

they were egging them on and all that. So how do you pick, not Kurt, because I was like in-house, these other dudes that you flew out, the ones you went for and other. It's hard. How do you find it? Because you take a lot of shit online, like, like, it almost incentivized. people to lean in more, but like, I'm going to go at them super hard and then he'll pick me. We kind of had a plan at the beginning to film like five of them before we released any of them

because of that reason being like, well, now it's going to be hard to comb through. You can kind of tell, like, if I could look back, if somebody DMs me something mean, which happens, I can like scroll through pretty quickly and be like, oh, if you also sent me something similar in 2021, like you're probably a hater candidate. So we'll do it that way. And then we got, I got a shout out my producer Kyle Tim's, who's one of our editors, who crushed it with the invitation show. But he is like as riot-a-die guy as you could possibly find.

So he'll just like in his free time, like go after people that are going after me in the comments and stuff. Like a little watchdog. Yeah, he's the best. And so like if I put him on the case, he'll find people. The issue you learn is like it's a, it's almost like this Goldilock zone of people that you have to try to find. And they need to, you need to truly have a history of like hate so that you can really

play it up and it gets people in the video. It can't be like BS where they're doing it just to get on camera. that sucks. They need to be willing to actually do it, which right away eliminates like 90% of the people are not willing to actually do it. And then they do have to be in like the sweet spot from a handicap range. Yeah. Because like I get people think I suck whatever.

But then every time we ever come up with like, okay, I'll play it. They're like, well, I'm a seven, so I'm going to need a couple shots. I'm like, no, you said there's no way I'm like a five handicapped. So if we play against someone, I would go anywhere from like a two to like a seven I can play against, but then you start to get into, like, if someone's got the best eight record of all time and they're going to be perfect for the show, but they're like a 10 handicapped, I'm like, I'm not sitting here claiming I'm the best with golf from the world, but it'll be a stupid video. I'll just kill you.

So, and also, if you're like a scratch, like, you'll just beat me. I'm not claiming I'm a scratch golfer. So you got to find people that are like right in that area. And then you get people that like just from a logistics standpoint can't do it. We're like, hey, we have a two-day window. We're going to be in Boston. We're setting up golf courses. Can you make it fucking August, fourth, or fifth?

And they're like, no, I have a real life and a job. So it's actually way harder to schedule. Not that you wanted all that detail. They're funny much. I just didn't like the one guy that just cussed every single, every other word. I got to talk more shit. I just got to talk more shit. That's what he kept saying the whole time.

You just need to suck way less. You just got to hit the ball and play. You just got to be way less shitty than you actually are. Just hit the ball and play. What's the goal here? Scratch. Is that the goal? Or are we scratch hunting?

I don't know, man. Scratch hunting. I don't get it far enough. That's my issue. I'm hitting it. Play the right T's. You're not going to the tips. No, I'm hitting it straight right now,

Bobby's got to be hitting it straight and I still just don't hit it anywhere. Like, do my, I don't, I've been hitting mini driver all year, just because, like, my driver can be a mess, whatever. Mini driver is like a cheat code, I feel like, which keeps me in play. And I legitimately, when I hit the mini driver solidly, it goes farther than my driver, you know, and it still doesn't go that far.

Probably carries like 250 or 245 and goes like. You can be a scratch golf written it that far, trust me. But my issue's like, that's like, That's if I hit a really good one. I can hit really shitty ones that, you know, go like, wait, not that. And my driver, like, I'll hit, I'll hit what I think was a pretty solid drive and it'll carry like 241 sometimes. And I'm just like, what am I doing out here?

So I'm going to figure that part of the game out. But the rest has been lately, again, you can play horrible any day. But the rest has been very solid lately. So what are you carrying right now? You said you're playing your best. I'm way lower than I should be. I've been about a five for like 10 years, give or take, depending on how you're playing. Dude, I posted a couple low scores in Piner's and then one at Bannon.

I'm like a I'm like a 2.7 right now or something, which is ridiculous. Which is good news and bad. Yeah, exactly. That's not. I should not be that. I'll probably go back up. Pump those numbers up. I got to get those numbers up.

Like this time of year, the last several months if you're playing in Scottsdale, I mean, it's just so soft. The courses are so easy. Your handicapped goes ridiculous. Agreed. And they're rated hard. Yeah. Of course, it's like at the rock, the lower is rated really hard. So if you go out there and it's soft, you keep it in play.

I could shoot something mid-low 70s, like not all the time. one out of six rounds and all of a sudden that makes you like a two eight again. You're like, well. It doesn't know if it's dead soft or blowing 20 and freezing. And that's when all the pros go. I mean, like,

ROM shoots 59. He's on like 59 watcht. The tour players average 10 birdies, like right before overseas, it's absurd. It's when all the course records get set. Yeah. Yeah.

So that's like that's about right now. I would say, I imagine when I get to like January, February, I'll be back up where I belong. Yeah, pump those. That's a shitty attitude. Pump those numbers back up.

No, I hope I'm wrong, but I just don't know. It's not. It's good for the haters. Yeah, it is good for the haters. Indeed, it's athletes are supposed to have a little more confidence. That's true.

Athlete. Three Stripes, maybe. Yeah, we're Three Stripes Nation. Love it, man. Well, congrats on all the success. Internet Invitational has been awesome so far. Thanks for sharing some behind-the-scenes access there. That was fun to hear, man.

Appreciate you, as always. I appreciate you guys. Let's have it. It is the season, by the way. Let's have a little winter in Scottsdale, you know? I enjoy those. We're here. We're here.

We're here. Thanks, we'll do it. Thank you. I appreciate you. All right, that was Riggs from Barstool, joining us on subpar, internet invitational. We're three episodes out right now. It's been fantastic. Three more to go.

God damn. It's a lot of time watching some YouTube golf, but it's been great so far. Yeah, they've done a good job with it. They got a lot of buzz around it. They got some help with some of the drama, which sounds like there's plenty more to come. I'm just room for the Duke. Duke. I just want the Duke to have generational wealth.

And then a reality show that just follows them around. We got an open chair for you, Duke. Anytime. So solid. Dude, how many smokes he can get. Dude, Chazzy is awesome, man. I love that guy.

Swings it nice. Stripes it. I got to meet him. But the whole thing's been awesome. Love the Hater series, though, as well. He's doing four and O. Four and O'Hourn-O.

If you're out there and you hate on Riggs. Yeah, you better bring it. Step up to the plate, you know? But I mean, you're going to hate all over the guy, tell him he's not legit and all this. I like the people that hate you suck and they're like, well, I'm going to need two aside. Yeah.

No, that's not right. No, you can't have it both ways. All right. Bobby, get your man ready. Okay, he's got a lot more matches to play, but there's a lot of fun catching up with rigs. Another weekend of football. Happy gambling to you. Panatic Sportsbook, go download it, follow along with us.

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