Big John tells his side of the Dave Portnoy beef

The Internet Invitational is still airing, and its breakout character finally got a chair on the golf pod. The first thing everybody wanted from him was the Dave story.

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Big John explains the lore behind his initial @InternetInvite Invitation from @stoolpresidente and the Barstool Spring Break controversy

Some background if you've only caught the episodes. Big John got a late invite to this year's event, which was filmed August 10-17 at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Missouri. Portnoy didn't want him there and spent the series making that clear. The bad blood goes back to Barstool Spring Break. On the pod, Big John's version starts with him deep into a 2-week West Coast bender. Dave texted to ask if he wanted to come, and a very drunk Big John said yes, book the flight. His words on that part: "that's on me."

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“Will there be an Internet Invitational invite inside of my room? And he just didn't respond to me for three days.”

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That's where it fell apart. The way it's told on the episode, the question went unanswered, so he stayed in Scottsdale with the boys and skipped the trip. Dave told it differently when it happened. He posted that he never thought Big John was coming anyway, but that Barstool had booked 2 flights for him and nobody was told he wasn't showing up. Dave called that "dog shit." So this is 2 people telling 2 versions of one no-show, and only one of them was on Fore Play this week.

The Dave stuff was the headline, but the rest of the episode, which also had a JWill and Peter Finch beef segment, was mostly about the moment that made Big John famous. On the second sudden-death hole, with Team Ruffels and Team Finch tied 8-8, he made the putt that sent Ruffels' side through to Day 2. Riggs asked him how many times he's watched it since.

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“Dude that putt.. How many times do you think you’ve watched that putt Big John?” -Riggs “That night I’ll never forget I didn’t go out to the bar, all the boys went out to the bar when the putt went in and I think I just sat in my bed and sat on the porch and smoked and watched that putt probably over 500 times that night” -Big John Golfs

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Big John Golfs talking about what happened with Barstool Spring Break and what happened between him and @stoolpresidente leading up to the Internet Invitational: t.co/unK8A3XCWC

Pretty great answer. Everybody else went to the bar and the guy who made the putt sat on a porch smoking and hitting replay. Later in the same stretch he says he'll show that putt to his grandkids. The fact that Dave can't stand him only makes the clip better.

Friday's cut covered the putter. It's called the Reaper, a backward blade that may be the strangest club anyone has used under real pressure. Big John has said before that it began as a gimmick, and then he started putting well with it and was stuck with it. In this clip he says he tried to use a Bettinardi first.

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Big John reveals the lore behind his now infamous “Reaper” putter Presented by @Chevrolet

There's more Invitational still to air, so Big John is going to be all over people's feeds for a while. What to watch is whether Dave answers this version of the Spring Break story or keeps saying he doesn't care. Either way, Big John made the putt and Dave has to watch everyone replay it.