Barstool's Tahoe Week Golf Content Machine Won't Stop

By Vinnie the Gooch·2 min read
Barstool's Tahoe Week Golf Content Machine Won't Stop

Pardon My Take's annual Tahoe golf trip is flooding timelines with alt-shot drama, tricky putts, and a snake prank aimed at Max.

Tahoe Week is a Pardon My Take institution at this point, riding shotgun on the American Century Championship's celebrity golf week at Edgewood Tahoe. Every summer the PMT crew decamps to Lake Tahoe, grabs cameras, and turns a few rounds of golf into a full content sprint. This year is no different, and the videos are coming out in waves.

The main Tahoe Week golf video dropped, sponsored by Twisted Tea, with the crew hauling bags across the fairway and needling each other on-screen.

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That drop set off a chain reaction of clips across Barstool's accounts, with the alt shot match getting its own separate rollout. An alternate shot format is brutal for exactly the reason it's entertaining to watch amateurs play it: one bad shot and your partner is stuck cleaning up the mess, no do-overs. That's prime content for a crew that's built a career on ripping each other for being bad at things.

The match itself got billed as having a hot start, with the crew filmed marching across the course dragging push carts and, for good measure, a dog in tow. Nobody's pretending this is a tightly run tournament broadcast — it's a vacation with cameras rolling, and that loose energy is the whole appeal.

The alt shot match footage showed the group walking the course together as the round got underway.

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Twisted Tea also got its money's worth out of a putt from someone named Zac, with on-screen text hyping him up as the guy you want in the bag for a tricky read. It's a small moment, but it's exactly the kind of throwaway highlight that Tahoe Week content thrives on — nobody's grading these putts against major championship pressure, they're just making sure the group chat has something to talk about.

Zac sank a tough putt on camera, with the crew hyping him up in real time.

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The bit that's actually generating buzz, though, is the fake snake prank pulled on Max somewhere out on the course. Max has become a recurring target during Tahoe Week over the years — the guy who gets stuck with the bit, the errand, or in this case, apparently a scare — and the fanbase eats it up every time. Sponsored by Chevy this go-around, the prank clip is light on the actual reveal but heavy on the setup, which is honestly on brand for how these videos get teased out.

The crew set up the snake prank on Max while making their way down the course.

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None of this is high-stakes journalism, and it doesn't need to be. Tahoe Week works because it's Barstool's biggest personalities away from the studio, mic'd up, competitive, and clearly having fun with sponsors along for the ride. With multiple videos already out and the alt shot match still generating separate posts of its own, expect the content dump to keep rolling for as long as the crew is still in Nevada.

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