Unpacking the Internet Invitational: Key Highlights and Players

The Internet Invitational features six episodes with a $1.7 million prize pool, showcasing intriguing performances and controversies in golf.

morgdotmac

October 29, 2025

2–3 minutes

Barstool, BobDoes, Golf, Internet Invitational, sports

The time has come. The long awaited Internet Invitational is being released as I type – from yesterday, 10/28-11/13. Six episodes in all and promoting $1.7 million in prize pool prize money available. I watched the first episode last night. It was a whopping 3+ hours long. I have a few thoughts.

Although I am an audience of one, YouTube suggests 1.6 million views. I’m unsure how many made it all 3 hours like I did though. This was a mere 22 hours after its posting on Bob Does Sports YouTube page. My take is a little bullish. I am deep down the rabbit hole of YouTube Golf. It is a general time suck in my life.

Let’s start with the episode release dates, seen below. I am beyond impressed. My light searching for leaks on who won in the end has come up empty-handed. I must say I am impressed that traps are sealed. I’m sure the NDA everyone signed was a doozie. Especially, given what I watched last night, some of the characters involved appear at times less than professional. I am looking side-eyes at you DODKing, The Duke, Sketch, and maybe one or two others.

Out of the gates, a little ‘stoolie controversary: Lacey is an interesting substitute player. She is a staffer or server at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Missouri. This was when J.R. Smith no-showed due to a missed flight. She claims to be a mid-dingle-digit handicapper. El Presidente, Dave Portnoy, selected her over 10+ year loyal Barstool employee Hank Lockwood. Probably the right choice, sorry, not sorry, ole Hank.

Other bullet point take aways:

Great content, editted pretty well

BarstoolTrent continues to way under-perform versus his livelihood

Wesley Bryan is just a regular guy great golfer

+ A big focus of the content was on Luke Kwon who should be tarred and feathered for sleeping through his 09:30a tee time with PFT. UNLESS, it was staged for good content purposes.

The Duke, DODKing, and Sketch are hard to watch

I feel like a lot more controversy is a-comin’ based on legit golf rules issues.Team BobDoesSports is down 8-4 after the first(scramble format) going into the back (alternate shot format).