The Feed: Does Scottie Scheffler have what it takes to hang on YouTube? The World No. 1 joins Bob Does Sports to find out
Welcome to a Friday the 13th edition of The Feed. That might be bad news for teenage camp counselors and the superstitious among us, but in the world of YouTube golf, it’s business as usual. Well, mostly business as usual, as we begin this week’s rundown with a visit from the World No. 1. Ladies and gentleman, let’s give a warm round of applause to Scottie Scheffler!!!
Scottie’s World
It’s no secret that this is Scottie Scheffler’s world and everyone else is just living in it. Scheffler became the third-fastest PGA Tour pro to 20 wins with his victory at The American Express last month, but YouTube is a whole other ballgame, one that may not fully jive with Scheffler’s matter-of-fact personality. YouTube is for the Brysons and the Bobs. The showmen. The comedians. Heck, even Jon Rahm has shown that he has the chops (and the stomach) to hang. But what about the World No. 1?
This week we got one of our longest looks yet at Scottie Scheffler the Potential YouTube Star when he joined Bob Does Sports for a little one-on-three match that essentially amounted to a grizzly bear playfighting with three cubs. Check it out.
We only get to see three holes with Scheffler before he has to bounce for Nike business (don’t worry, Si Woo Kim tags in), but those three holes still have plenty to savor. First and foremost, watching Scheffler stick darts in a casual setting is perhaps even more impressive than seeing him do it on a major Sunday. He just walks up, picks his line and pures it like he’s sipping a hot cup of coffee on a quiet weekend morning. Seeing him in a more relaxed environment really drives the point home:
The comparisons to Tiger, Jack and Arnie aren’t strictly numerical. The guy is 100 percent organic. A natural.
As a YouTube guest, that and his nice-guy charm carry him. There’s nothing not to like here and you get plenty of fun anecdotes, from some behind-the-scenes insight into the ravioli incident to how his wife Meredith gets the “most improved” award for her cooking after he politely told her it could use some work.
“Good for you, Scottie. Dangerous game, but good for you,” Bob replies.
That’s what you’re getting here. It was a cold morning and the BDS guys seemed a bit nervous about meeting Scheffler, despite having just filmed an episode with Rahm the week before (it really goes to show the reverence Scheffler has earned among golfers over the last several years). So the video takes a little bit to get going, and Scheffler isn’t exactly the type to drag the conversation along by its ear lobe. But he’s present, in a good mood and funny in a casual sort of way. He’s not playing up some caricature of his tour self or asking you to like and subscribe. He’s just himself. For now, that’s probably not enough to earn him 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube like Bryson, but as he tells Bob, he’s started going to different Chipotles to avoid being recognized. The last thing a guy like that wants is even more fame.
Quick Hits
Good Good Golf
The Good Good guys put their best worst foot forward this week with a 3V3 worst-ball scramble. If you like hangnails, visits to the DMV and forgetting your umbrella on a rainy day, you’ll LOVE this.
In other Good Good news, the channel officially announced Good Good Pros this week, which will see resident sticks Brad Dalke and Sean Walsh tee it up against some of the PGA Tour’s best to determine, once and for all, if they have what it takes to hang. They won’t be getting strokes or choosing the match formats, so this should be interesting to say the very least.
Bryan Bros.
Speaking of Dalke and Walsh competing against a bunch of pros, the duo also kicked off their 54-hole 2v2 series against the Bryan Bros. this week. Sure, Wesley might not be allowed within 50 feet of PGA Tour HQ right now, but he’s a former tour winner (2016 RBC Heritage) and that’s more than good enough for us.
Grant Horvat
Dalke also teamed up with Grant Horvat this week to take a run at Tesoro Country Club’s course record. The boys were scrambling, but the low round was 63 from the tips, so they still had their work cut out for them.
Good Good Girls
Love is in the air this week, and the Good Good Girls are celebrating with a couples match between Marissa Genzler and Garret Clark; Matthew Meneghetti (AKA Shooter McGhetti) and Alexis Miestowski; and a “Galerntine’s” pairing of Yoonhee Kim and Hadley Walts. Playing golf with your partner can be an emotional minefield, so here’s hoping these happy couples stay happy until the bitter end.
Peter Finch
This weekend, Pebble Beach will be the star of the show on the PGA Tour … and also YouTube, where Peter Finch attempts to break par at the legendary Monterey masterpiece. If there’s no such thing as too much Pebble for you, then make sure to check it out.
Luke Kwon
Two reasons to watch this one: 1. It’s currently summer in New Zealand. 2. Halfway through, the match pivots to cross-country golf as Kwon, Tooms, Taco Golf and co. mix and match different tee boxes with different greens to produce some unique shots and unnatural hazards. In the immortal words of Dr. Emmett Brown, where we’re going, we don’t need roads.