Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by content creator with Bob Does Sports, Joey Cold Cuts to discuss the rise in popularity of golf content on YouTube and how athletes like Josh Allen and LeBron James are getting more involved in golf. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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Video Transcript
YouTube golf has taken off.
What’s been the key?
Like, why is everybody flocking to this?
I don’t know.
I think it’s just, uh, it’s a good escape, you know, and I think golf is a fun game that has It kind of blew up over COVID.
That’s definitely when we started, You know, posting a lot of our stuff.
Um, golf really was one of the few things that You could do it for a couple of years.
You really couldn’t do many social activities, So, I think it blew up.
The game’s become bigger than ever.
And anyone can play, and you can play until you’re old.
You can play if you’re good, bad, or indifferent.
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And a lot of sports athletes, A lot of celebrities have tended to flock to the game.
And I think it’s just a hotspot and something that everybody can kind of relate to.
So it’s kind of taken the world by storm, I guess, which is good for us.
Yeah, LeBron James is a famously big fan of YouTube golf.
But speaking of that, I mean, you’ve gotten to play with all sorts of celebrities in such Beautiful places.
What would you say is your favorite celebrity?
That you’ve gotten to play golf with?
I think it has to be Josh Allen.
He’s an absolute delight to be out there with him.
Sam Darnold and Kyle Allen, we played with on our channel a couple of times now.
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And the vibes are always impeccably great and just a lot of fun.
On top of that, he’s just a great guy to be out there with.
I caddied for him for the first time in the ACC Championship in Lake Tahoe, I think it was.
Like 2023.
Um, and I never even knew he watched Bob Does sports or followed YouTube golf, and then I found out how, Like, he is addicted to golf and, um, our relationship’s kind of become, It’s blossomed from there, and he’s just a great teammate out there.
But there’s been a ton of people we’ve played with who are a lot of fun.
And like I said, you’re always meeting new people who are interested in getting out on the golf course.
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So it’s- it’s cool to see where, You know, like LeBron James posting about golf and, You know, you see some of these guys, it’s just, like, it’s wild to me.
You, uh, you want to break any news here?
Like you guys working on anything with LeBron?
Like, we’re all looking to LeBron.
He’s talking about it.
We know how popular you guys are.
Come on.
Is there something happening?
I don’t know if he’s in Bob Does Sports.
Realm yet, but we’d love to have him on.
I know that he’s, …expressed interest in coming on our tournament we hosted with Barstool for the First year, last year.
It was called the Internet Invitational.
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We had pretty much all the golf creators from YouTube come together to play a huge tournament that was hosted for a million dollars that was put up by, Uh, Dave Portnoy.
And I know we’re looking to run it again.
And he’s talked about potentially having someone like a Steph Curry or a LeBron James or A Caitlin Clark comes in.
So I guess the possibilities are endless.
But yeah, I’d love to have him on.
Nothing that I can break right now, though.
