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Trent's Birdie Hostage Situation Finally Gets a Full Video

By Vinnie the Gooch·2 min read
Trent's Birdie Hostage Situation Finally Gets a Full Video

Trent has been chasing one stubborn birdie for what feels like forever, and Fore Play just dropped the receipts.

If you've followed Fore Play at all, you know Trent's whole golf identity is built on quests that should take an afternoon and instead turn into odysseys. Breaking 85 became a saga. Now it's a single birdie, and apparently the terms are simple: he doesn't get to leave the course until he makes one.

Trent gave a live update from the tee box on how the hunt for the birdie was actually going.

via @ForePlayPod

The clip is Trent standing on a tee box in his usual white cap and polo, club and ball in hand, giving it to the camera straight — this is a check-in from inside the grind, not a highlight of him actually pulling it off. That's the joke of the whole bit: the update itself is the content, because the birdie still isn't happening.

Frankie Borrelli's role in all of this tracks with how Fore Play has built its whole identity — he's the hype man standing next to Trent for these marathon golf quests, the guy who's there for Trent's ongoing chase to break 85 and every other bit that turns a round of golf into a bit. Golf-as-content-grind is basically the show's bread and butter, and a guy stuck on a course until he makes one specific score is peak Fore Play premise.

Fore Play released the full video documenting the entire birdie chase.

Fore Play
Fore Play@ForePlayPod·4h ago

Full video out now: https://t.co/cZx1X1uOrk

That the full-length video dropped right after the teaser update suggests this wasn't a quick bit that wrapped in an hour — it was long enough, and dramatic enough, to warrant its own release. Anyone who's watched Fore Play's other stuck-until-you-make-it formats knows these things can stretch into genuine slogs, which is exactly why they're funny to watch and miserable to film.

Whether Trent actually cashed the birdie or the video ends with him still out there in the dark is the whole reason to watch it. Either way, the format works because it turns golf's most basic, everyday score into a hostage negotiation — and Fore Play's audience will watch a guy try to make one two-putt for an hour if you frame it right.

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TrentFrankie BorrelliForePlayPod