Yandle Turns a Golf Grudge Match Into a Chirping Clinic

By Bush Staff·2 min read
Yandle Turns a Golf Grudge Match Into a Chirping Clinic
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Sandbagger season is back, and Keith Yandle is spending more time in opponents' heads than in the fairway.

The Sandbagger series between Spittin' Chiclets and Bob Does Sports has become one of those recurring internet-golf grudge matches that fans circle on the calendar, and the newest episode dropped with Keith Yandle doing what Keith Yandle does best: talking absolute smack from the first tee to the last green. Yandle signed on as a full-time Spittin' Chiclets host back in January 2025, and ever since, the Sandbagger events have doubled as a showcase for his chirping as much as his golf game.

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@StooliesClub

Yands is an elite chirper... He was in their heads before they started and had them in a blender during. GREAT MATCH

A man in a Rhoback dotted golf shirt and black cap stands outdoors near palm trees, talking and gesturing while holding a golf ball, with a golf broadcast scoreboard graphic in the corner showing '10TH PAR 4 389 YDS' and sponsor logos for RHOBACK, BOB DOES SPORTS, and CHICLETS.

One fan summed it up best watching the footage back: Yandle had opponents rattled before the match even teed off and kept working them over hole after hole. That's the appeal of these Sandbagger get-togethers -- they're less about card-perfect golf and more about a bunch of hockey guys and content creators needling each other for a few hours with a scoreboard graphic running in the corner.

Not every reaction in the round was about Yandle's mouth, though. Somewhere in the middle of the match, a putt from one of the golfers left even the crew's own Fat Perez stunned enough to ask out loud how it was even possible.

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@VivaLaStool

“How the fuck is he reading putts like this? What the fuck was that?!” -Fat Perez

A golfer in a teal polo walks off the tee with a golf club and glove in hand, then a golf ball is shown resting on the fairway near a divot, with a scoreboard graphic showing hole 5, par 3, 147 yards, and a cameraman and another man filming nearby.

Then there's the bit that's actually driving the pitch of this whole episode -- Yandle's well-earned reputation for refusing to touch a random cup sitting out on a golf course. It's become a running joke among the Sandbagger crowd, and this round leaned into it hard with a bit built around a beverage station and a pile of cups nobody but Yandle seemed suspicious of.

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@VivaLaStool

You won’t catch Yandle sipping any water he finds at a golf course. @nobull

A bearded man in a teal striped golf polo picks up cups from a beverage station near a golf cart on a course lined with palm trees, then hands cups to someone off-screen; a different man in a navy polo and light blue shorts walks away carrying a golf club and holding a cup.

It's a small, dumb joke, but it's the kind of recurring bit that makes these Sandbagger episodes rewatchable -- inside jokes stacking on top of inside jokes across matches. Combine that with Yandle's nonstop needling of Bob Does Sports and it's clear why this series keeps generating clips well after the episode itself drops.

The bigger picture here is that Sandbagger has quietly become one of the better recurring crossovers in the Barstool-adjacent golf content world, pitting Spittin' Chiclets against Bob Does Sports the way the Internet Invitational once did for the wider creator scene. As long as Yandle keeps treating every tee box like a microphone, expect these episodes to keep outperforming the actual golf being played.

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