Internet Invitational episode 5: Whitney, Big John survive
TLDR: Episode 5 of the Internet Invitational premiered Monday, Nov. 9 at 1PM ET with a sudden-death shootout and the semifinals, and Riggs called it as intense an episode as it gets.
Riggs plays in this thing, and he posted his verdict within minutes of Episode 5 going up on YouTube.
A quick refresher: this is the second Internet Invitational, the Barstool and Bob Does Sports creator event that was filmed back in August at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Missouri. The purse went from $1 million last year to $4 million this year, and each player on the winning side takes home $1.3 million. That kind of money is why every putt in Episode 5 feels like a hostage situation.
The shootout kicked off on the 1st tee, and the first big swing belonged to Big John. Kevin Kisner, who serves as the event's rules guy and the guy they drop into big moments, was having the time of his life watching it.
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The shootout was sudden death, which is apparently when Jon Gruden decided to call his wife. He sat in a cart, told her there was a good chance he was in trouble, said goodnight, and then the camera cut to live bison grazing next to the fairway. His caption was 4 words long.
The biggest moment of the playoff went to Ryan Whitney. According to episode recaps, Jake Adams couldn't match Whitney's par. Whit posted his putt himself, narrated by Gruden, and threw in a brag about what he did to Dave right after.
Having a true legend @BarstoolGruden narrate the video of this putt is all time. Only thing cooler was bodying @stoolpresidente after
Whit's celebration ended up right in Dave's face, and that tells you who he was playing for. On Spittin' Chiclets, Biz asked whether the size of the audience got to him. It didn't. Dave did.
“So what’s going through your head? You were just realizing so many people are gonna be watching this/I can’t lose this hole?” -Biz “I actually was never thinking about the people that were going to see it, I was thinking of Dave” -Whit
Not everybody got that ending. The Duke and Marissa's team went out, and The Duke caught most of the blame online. By Tuesday morning the person defending him was Dave, of all people.
Invitational Spoiler Alert I’m seeing lots of Duke hate out there. You can definitely not like him or be annoyed by him but he is not the sole reason his team lost. Im sure Marissa would be the 1st to say she played far from her best golf. Duke himself also played well below his level. That’s why they lost. If Marissa plays well and Duke plays Duke golf I think they actually coast through. But Marissa and Duke playing well below their averages is why they lost. Duke wasnt the auto L some people are saying.
Meanwhile, Big John just kept making putts. Riggs had already thanked Big John's putter for the run, and the semifinal clip of his team mobbing him at dusk is the reason why.
BIG JOHN IS AN ABSOLUTE MADMAN HE DOES IT AGAIN TO SEND HIS TEAM ON TO THE FINAL DAY
With the finale a day away, the clip going around Wednesday is The Duke making a call on a putt a little too early. The footage doesn't show whether it dropped, but everybody posting it agrees the timing was brutal.
Episode 6, the finale, is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 12 at 1PM ET. It's 18 holes of alternate-shot match play, and every player on the winning side gets $1.3 million. If Riggs is right that Episode 5 was as intense as it gets, the last episode has a lot to live up to.
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