Brad Dalke is a good PGA Tour player, says Colt Knost, once a PGA Tour player himself and now a PGA Tour TV analyst.
And that leads to a natural PGA Tour question – for someone who does is not one of YouTube Golf’s biggest stars:
Would he give the Tour another chance?
The thought made for an interesting exchange on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar podcast, which you can watch in full here. Knost, one of the show’s co-hosts, said he played with Dalke last year. He said he knew Dalke’s background, which includes an NCAA team championship win at Oklahoma, a runner-up finish at the 2016 U.S. Amateur and a pair of major championships. Dalke was also part of the winning team at Barstool Sports’ Internet Invitational, which brought together 48 online golf personalities for a $1 million tournament.
“Everyone at YouTube Golf is obviously excited about your talent and it’s real,” Knost said on Subpar. “Like you have the talent to play on the PGA Tour.”
This means he has the unique choice of trying his hand at golf at the highest level, or continuing to play golf on YouTube, where golf videos have recently exploded in popularity. But it’s not as easy as it sounds.
After trying pro golf after college, he said he remembered the “grind.” And the grind isn’t for the Good Good team member.
“You know, I like competition,” Dalke said on Subpar. “I love competing and now I’m in such a different place than when I was doing pro golf before. I mean, when I was doing pro golf before, I think I was probably probably a two handicap handicap. …
“I couldn’t hit the wide side of the barn with the driver. When I tried to fix my driver, my irons got horrible. So I couldn’t hit a golf ball to save my life. Luckily, I still have my wedges and putting to kind of keep myself in it. But I’m such a different golfer now. Like I’m a really good golfer again now. So there’s always that itch of, hey, I want to go back and compete again and see what I can do against these players. Guys now, now I have my game.
But full-time professional golf required work, he said.
The grind was ‘a lot’. It was expensive. “You don’t really make a lot of money unless you get to that top level,” he said, “and there’s a lot of money in YouTube now.”
All that said, if a special invitation were extended to a tournament, Dalke said he would play. Of course he would.
“I think it’s a matter of, you know, if I get some sponsorship exemptions and get some opportunities that way, then obviously I’ll accept that and I’ll do my best to do my best in those moments,” Dalke said on Subpar. “But as far as going through Q-School and going to PGA Tour Americas and Korn Ferry, it just doesn’t seem very attractive to me right now, to be honest. You know, the YouTube money is quite nice.
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