u/YT_Golf_Talk

Had the pleasure of chatting to Wil Mayo, Senior Director of Sales and Marketing at Rams Hill, earlier this week. Wil was heavily involved in getting the tournament there after Teeth of the Dog fell through, and told me some good stuff about both securing the event and hosting it. Among the topics we broached:

- How the tournament actually ended up there, with YGT directly reaching out to Wil.

- The course set-up: tees and pins were chosen by the captains.

- Each of the teams staying in their own separate accommodation.

- Josh Kelley doing trick shots on slip and slide.

- The exposure Rams Hill got from hosting YGT vs. more traditional forms of exposure like top 100 rankings (over 10k people scanned their QR code in Round 3).

It was a really insightful chat, so if you're interested have a read of the full conversation and a look at some great pictures from the event that they sent through: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/behind-the-scenes-of-your-golf-tour-qampa-with-wil-from-rams-hill

I've loved YGT, but it's obviously in its early days and has areas it could improve. A couple of these have been pretty consistent grievances among the Reddit masses, but this is the list I've got of things they should be focusing on fixing up.

- Mismatched teams

- Same players getting benched

- First two rounds > last round, but the videos are shorter

- Do they make the courses too easy!?

More info about the logic behind each of these here if you're interested: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/your-golf-tour-what-works-and-how-it-could-be-even-better

Do you agree with these, and are there any other major wrinkles that you think need to be ironed out to make it a better product?

Wouldn't have thought this is on many people's bingo cards, but at least a couple of people are going to be going to the final event. Takomo is doing a sweepstakes with the winner to receive a couple of nights at the Wynn and all-access entry to the YGT Final, as well as a set of Takomo clubs. Valued at $4,800 USD. Does this appeal to people? I certainly wouldn't say no, particularly to the fresh set of clubs.

Given it's obviously not broadcast live they'll want to be pretty confident whoever wins isn't going to spill their guts. I imagine they've figured out how it will all work but seems risky!

More info here including entry details if you're interested: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/want-to-go-to-the-ygt-finale-in-las-vegas

It's safe to say that these are the two biggest events that we've seen in YouTube golf. Both high stakes, both have many many millions of views, but the frivolity of the Invitational vs the more serious YGT is the main point of difference between the two.

A /YGT sub is definitely a biased market to survey, but for those who have seen them both, which of them did you think was a better watch?

Now that YGT has been out for a month there are some good comparative numbers to crunch, so if you're interested, take a look at a breakdown of the viewership numbers after a week/month/total as well as some of our thoughts here: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/your-golf-tour-vs-internet-invitational-by-the-numbers

Been widely accepted for a while now that Teeth of the Dog wasn't going to host it as initially planned, but the replacement was confirmed just half an hour ago on Ryan Ruffels Instagram. It'll be held at Rams Hill Golf Club in the Anza-Borrego Desert in California - don't know all that much about the course but it's been ranked inside the top 100 courses in the USA by Golf Digest in the past.

More info about the event here if interested: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/when-is-the-next-your-golf-tour-event-release-date-and-location-info

A bit of Good Good/YouTube representation on the PGA Tour this weekend, with Dalke and Ruffels both heading to Detroit for the Rocket Classic. Tee times have just come out, with Dalke hitting off at 1.49pm and 8.39am respectively across the first two rounds and Ruffels doing basically the opposite - 9.01am in Round 1 and 2.11pm in Round 2. More info about the forecast, how to watch yada yada here if you're interested: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/brad-dalke-ryan-ruffels-tee-times-at-the-rocket-classic

Second PGA Tour start for Ruffels in under three months and interestingly he will be joining Dalke in Detroit, who was announced as a sponsor's exemption a couple of months ago. Happy to be corrected but wouldn't have thought there would have been any other top-level events in the past with multiple guys as prominent on YouTube as these two in the field.

Field is looking decent too with names like Cam Young, Schauffele, Koepka among others all being announced. More info here if you're interested: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/ryan-ruffels-to-make-second-pga-tour-start-of-the-year-at-the-rocket-classic

First off, ******spoiler alert****** in the article below if you haven't already watched. After every YGT event, we're collating the scores from each player across the rounds that they played, which we'll post on our Insta and X/Twitter accounts a couple of days after the final round is released. Using those numbers as a base, we'll then dish out 5-4-3-2-1 votes to the best players from each tournament and get a leaderboard going over the four tournaments this season. As mentioned, spoilers in this article if you haven't watched, but for those who have and are mildly interested: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/your-golf-tour-mvp-votes-pursell-farms

The invites that have been opened all over Instagram over the past few days explicitly stated that the dates and location were strictly confidential, but Francis Ellis has gone ahead and told us on his podcast anyway. Probably no great surprise - it was a great venue last year and there are a couple more courses for them to play if they wanted to mix it up. More info here if you're after it: https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/2026-internet-invitational-location-disclosed-accidentally

We got a few more over the weekend with Daniel Saloner (Short Game King), Hailey Ostrom and Evan Thompson all confirming their invites via Insta. We've also had Justin Gaethje and Jason Williams confirmed, while there's a big cohort of players from last year who will almost certainly tee it up. Will add more here as they come to hand - https://www.ytgolftalk.com/articles/the-2026-internet-invitational-roster-whos-confirmed-so-far - but in the meantime is there anyone we have missed or rumours that have slipped through the cracks?