Wesley Bryan's Pardon My Take feud reaches Spittin Chiclets
TLDR: Wesley Bryan asked whether the Internet Invitational would be better with its 8 highest handicaps swapped for the world's top 8, and now Ryan Whitney says Bryan hates Barstool more than any hater.
Pardon My Take and Fore Play already had their turn at Bryan. Then Spittin Chiclets put his tweet on screen next to the world top 10 and went after him too.
“I think Wesley Bryan hates Barstool more than any Barstool hater out there” -Ryan Whitney “Him saying ‘I literally chose YouTube golf for that reason’. You didn’t chose YouTube golf” -Keith Yandle “I’d be willing to bet that if he was a top 40 golfer in the world he’d be doing that over YouTube golf” -Ryan
Here's what started it. Bryan, one of the event's 4 team captains, posted: "Would the internet invitational be better or worse if you replaced the 8 highest handicapped golfers there and added the 8 best players in the world?" The 8 he meant are the hackers, The Duke, Callux, Jersey Jerry and PFT Commenter among them. That's a spicy question to ask about a 64-man field Barstool and Bob Does Sports took to Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri, with more than $4 million on the line, and it's even spicier with the episodes still dropping. Pardon My Take broke it down, Bryan fired back, and the Chiclets boys added the part that stings: Yandle saying "you didn't choose YouTube golf," and Whitney betting Bryan would be on tour if he were a top-40 player. To be fair to Bryan, the Chiclets guys admit on air they don't actually know how his tour career ended.
On Fore Play, the problem wasn't the question. It was what came after. Bryan's defense was that he'd just been throwing it out there, and Frankie Borrelli wasn't having it.
“That’s just not the way that conversation or like humanity works” -Frankie Borrelli
@Internetinvite @PardonMyTake Yall are idiots. How did you spin my words that direction? I was asking the question to the general golf audience I would rather watch Bob Does Sports than the PGA TOUR. I would rather play alt shot with Bob than a pro golfer. I literally chose YouTube golf for that reason.
That's the case against Bryan in one line. You can't post a vague question, let the replies tell you how it landed, and then say it was a bit. Riggs went after the premise itself. The higher handicaps aren't a flaw in the Internet Invitational. They're the reason it exists.
That's the right answer. The Creator Classic already exists for the scratch players. Nobody watches this thing to see a +5 grind out pars. They watch to see if Jersey Jerry can keep one in play under pressure with real money on it. Take out the 8 worst golfers and add 8 tour pros and you've built a worse Creator Classic. Riggs and Trent said as much in a separate segment, pointing to the event's viral par-3 moment as proof the mix works.
The best response might have come from one of the 8 guys Bryan wanted to cut. PFT Commenter didn't fight it. He tipped his cap instead, which may be the biggest troll of the whole thing.
I can admit when ive been bested. The 2 most under appreciated next level Twitter trolls of my life: 1. Wesley Bryan internet invitational 3-dimensional chess thought starter 2. Marshall Hendersons social experiment
Calling it a "3-dimensional chess thought starter" is PFT giving Bryan credit for engagement farming, whether Bryan meant it or not. Either way it worked: 3 Barstool shows spent airtime on one tweet, and Bryan's own team is still playing on screen. Episode 6, the finale, drops November 12, so the whole internet gets to watch the high handicaps Bryan wanted gone decide how this thing ends.
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