The Sandbagger series between Spittin' Chiclets and Bob Does Sports has become one of the better recurring bits in the YouTube golf world, and the latest edition dropped with NOBULL and Rhoback backing the broadcast. Keith Yandle, the former NHL defenseman who's now a full-time voice on Spittin' Chiclets, has quietly turned himself into the show's best trash talker, and this round was reportedly no exception.
According to fans who watched the new episode, Yandle wasn't just chirping during the round, he was doing damage before anyone even hit a tee shot. That's a very hockey-guy way to play golf, and it's exactly the kind of gamesmanship that's made these Bob Does Sports crossovers appointment viewing for the Chiclets crowd.
One fan summed up the whole broadcast: Yandle had the Bob Does Sports guys rattled before the match even started.
Naturally, getting chirped at by a guy who played over 1,000 NHL games doesn't sit well with everybody, and Robby Berger of Bob Does Sports wasn't going to just take it. Mid-round, with the scoreboard graphic showing the match still very much live, Berger let Yandle have it right back.
Robby Berger's response to Yandle's needling, caught mid-swing on the Bob Does Sports broadcast.
That's the appeal of these Sandbagger matchups. It's not really about who shoots the lower score, it's about who cracks first. Yandle spent years getting under opponents' skin on the ice, and he's clearly imported that same act to the golf course, where a missed 3-foot putt matters a lot less than making the guy across the fairway miss his.
There was even room for some absurdist comic relief on the broadcast, with fans joking about a turtle that wandered onto the course looking like it had, in their words, exploded. Nothing actually happened, it was just golf-course wildlife giving the internet something dumb to riff on between shots.
The bigger picture here is that Spittin' Chiclets and Bob Does Sports have built a legitimate golf rivalry out of nothing but bits, chirps, and content, and Yandle has become the connective tissue that makes it work. As long as he keeps getting in people's heads before the first tee shot, expect these Sandbagger episodes to keep delivering.