The Barstool Classic keeps racking up stops on its way to Scottsdale in November, and this one landed somewhere special. Fore Play Pod pulled into Tot Hill Farm in Asheboro, North Carolina, a Mike Strantz design that's been turning heads since it opened in 2000, and the content came fast.
First up: a wardrobe malfunction nobody saw coming. Frankie and Trent showed up to the same event in the exact same adidas fit — matching spotted polos, matching bottoms, matching caps, matching sneakers — and just stood there staring at each other like it was a prank. It wasn't. It just happened.
Frankie and Trent realize they're wearing the identical outfit in the parking lot at Tot Hill Farm.
The course itself is the real star here, though. Riggs broke down why Tot Hill Farm is the kind of place golfers talk about for years: an original Mike Strantz build with a 2023 restoration, exposed rock everywhere, wild land movement and holes that don't look like anything else on a scorecard. He admitted he once carded a 110 there, which tells you everything about how demanding the layout gets when it's not being kind to you.
Strantz's reputation as one of golf architecture's most fearless minds is well earned — Tot Hill Farm is one of only a handful of courses he finished before his death in 2005, and it's still ranked among the best publicly playable tracks in North Carolina. Getting the Barstool Classic crew to run through it, cave tunnel and waterfall green included, is a genuine bucket-list stop for the tour.
And then there was Gary Woodland, who didn't just show up for the scenery. Fore Play's cameras caught him working his way up the leaderboard on-course, with the graphic tracking him climbing from -4 to -6 as he fist-bumped his caddie walking up toward the green.
Gary Woodland walks the fairway and fist-bumps his caddie as the on-screen graphic shows him moving to -6.
It's the kind of stop that sums up why the Barstool Classic works: a course architects and diehards obsess over, hosts who can't stop messing with each other, and a real PGA Tour name mixed in with the field. With 10 qualifiers feeding into the Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale this November, Tot Hill Farm was one more stamp on the passport before the $20,000 winner-take-all showdown and a name carved into the Commissioner's Cup.