The American Century Championship rolled into South Lake Tahoe for its 37th year this week, and Pardon My Take didn't just show up to watch. Big Cat and PFT parachuted into Edgewood Tahoe Resort with cameras rolling, turning a stacked celebrity golf field into a week-long content operation that's been dropping vlogs, interviews, and on-course chaos nonstop.
Before the golf even started, the crew was out roaming the grounds looking for bodies to put in front of a camera, Twisted Tea in hand, lanyards flapping in the Sierra Nevada wind.
Pardon My Take wandered the tournament grounds hunting for people to talk to.
That's the whole vibe of the week: half golf coverage, half live sitcom. Case in point, an interview got derailed mid-conversation when somebody's phone alarm decided to go off under the pavilion, because nothing at this event goes exactly to plan.
An interview got hijacked by a poorly-timed phone alarm.
The real headline moment, though, was Big Cat and PFT getting out on the course themselves at the tournament's most famous hole. The par-3 17th at Edgewood sits right against Lake Tahoe's shoreline, with boats parked offshore and fans crowding the beach side for free, and it's built a reputation over the years as the most electric single hole in celebrity golf, host to the Korbel Hole-In-One Contest and the site of Joe Sakic's ace back in the day. Getting a tee shot there is as close to a bucket-list moment as this podcast gets.
Big Cat and PFT teed off at the iconic par-3 17th overlooking Lake Tahoe.
The whole trip has been framed around Hank, the crew's recurring travel companion in spirit if not always in person, with the 17th hole shots explicitly run as a tribute since he was reportedly running late to Tahoe. Fittingly, the guys also filmed themselves setting up a surprise for his eventual arrival, balloons and all, as part of the Chevy-sponsored vlog series following the group around for the week.
The crew set up balloons at the house to surprise Hank on his arrival in Tahoe.
This year's field is loaded, with defending champ Joe Pavelski, three-time winner Tony Romo, 2023 champion Stephen Curry, plus Charles Barkley, Aaron Rodgers, Steve Young, and a rotating cast of NFL and NHL names all grinding for a $750,000 purse. But for Pardon My Take's audience, the actual leaderboard is basically background noise. The draw is watching Big Cat and PFT turn a golf tournament into their own weeklong bit, one vlog, one lakeside tee shot, and one blown-up phone alarm at a time.