The Barstool Classic is deep into its 8th season as a full-blown tour, with qualifiers around the country feeding a Championship at a U.S. Open venue in Scottsdale this November, and Fore Play has treated the TPC Boston leg like it owes them content. Every group off the tee has turned into a bit, every green has turned into a segment, and the podcast's feed has basically become a live diary of the event.
NEW LEADER at the @adidas Closest to the Pin: 7’8” Zah called it as soon as this group stepped up 👀 @BarstoolClassic
That's the beauty of the Barstool Classic format. Teams of 2 play four-ball stroke play at 50% handicap, so a single lucky bounce can swing a whole leaderboard, which is exactly why a closest-to-the-pin measurement gets treated like a title fight. It also means the sideshows are just as big as the golf, and nothing proves that more than the running debate over the most consecutive birdies ever made on Tour.
What’s the most consecutive birdies ever made on Tour? We asked the @BarstoolClassic @pinkwhitney
It's the kind of golf trivia argument that only gets louder the more Pink Whitney gets involved, and it's become as much a Barstool Classic tradition as the tournament itself. But the crew's summer wasn't just TPC Boston. Fore Play also made the trip to Northern Ireland with Francis Ellis to play Royal County Down, one of the best courses on the planet, complete with the club's former head pro walking them through the history and the Rory McIlroy lore. Apparently the golf went better than the dinner afterward.
“We’re never coming back here again.” You won’t believe what Francis left behind at this restaurant in Ireland 💀
No word on what actually happened at the table, but getting a group banned from a restaurant is the kind of story that follows a guy around for years, and Francis is clearly not living it down anytime soon. Meanwhile, the Barstool golf content universe kept expanding outside the Fore Play feed entirely, with Bob Does Sports' Chiclets match producing its own moment of disbelief courtesy of Fat Perez.
“How the fuck is he reading putts like this? What the fuck was that?!” -Fat Perez
A hole 5, 147-yard par 3 shouldn't produce that kind of reaction, but that's the charm of this stretch of golf content — everybody's out there filming everybody else being amazed by golf shots. Between TPC Boston, Royal County Down and now the Chiclets match, the Barstool golf ecosystem is running full speed all summer, and the actual Championship in Scottsdale isn't even until November. There's a lot more content where this came from.