The Bryan BriefNo. 48 · 29 October 2026
A group of golfers grinning for a selfie on the tee
The Internet Invitational
Friends became enemies for a week 👀
The Santino clip, why this year felt more ramped up, and how YGT is a different thing.
Hey y’all,
The Internet Invitational is back. This whole issue is about it.
The Santino clip, life inside, and how it compares to YGT. No spoilers past what has aired.
George
NewJust dropped on the channel
 
George vs Wesley
A $100k 1v1. Brother against brother, 82 minutes, out now.
George vs Wesley, a $100k 1v1, new on the Bryan Bros channel
01The Santino clip
 
I don’t think it was a bit
It caught me off guard.
Andrew Santino and Wesley Bryan trading comments on the tee at the Internet Invitational
Santino and Wesley, trading comments on the tee.
That clip is real life now, and it did not seem like a bit. Off camera, it felt like he was annoyed at Wesley and genuinely thought pros shouldn’t be there. My thought: there are a lot of pros here, not just us.

Then my “bring it” moment. I didn’t even know there were cameras on us. I was half joking. Bob texted me that he loved it, so I watched it. Kind of funny.

But also, man, let’s bring it. Let’s play a match.
0264 players
 
Friends became enemies for the week
Everyone wanted to win that badly.
Dave and the crew build a format all 64 of us buy into, and with that many different golfers, drama just happens. You cannot script these things.

With a bigger purse, everyone turned from friend to borderline enemy. I think that is exactly how Dave wanted it.

It was just more ramped up this year than last year.
03YGT vs the Invitational
 
We are not competition
Two similar things. Two very different things.
People say we copied the Invitational. I just don’t see us as competition.
 
→  YGT is built on the golf. A crossover between YouTube golf and high-level pro golf. Drama comes second.
→  The Invitational wants drama. The golf matters, but chaos is the point.
→  They have one massive event. We are building a tour, telling the story over a whole season, for years.
Want high-level golf? That’s YGT. Want crazy, ridiculous stuff with real pressure? That’s the Invitational.
04If you love the Invitational
 
Dave wanted to see me choke
Chaos is the point. That’s not a knock.
Dave Portnoy on the course at Big Cedar during the Internet Invitational
Dave, hoping I miss.
In episode one I have a putt, and Dave walks up and says he wants to see me choke. As a viewer, sure, you want chaos. I was already nervous enough.

YGT is different: clean, family-friendly, and the golf comes first. We’re not there to get clipped. If drama happens, it happens.

It’s not “I watched the Invitational, so I don’t need YGT.” They’re two separate things.
How we went in
We were there to win
Not to take notes for YGT.
Wesley and I didn’t go in to study it. We viewed it as a tournament. A: compete and win. B: make great content.
That was my mindset, at least. Wesley might have been more “ah, whatever.”
+Shout-outs
 
How they pull it off
And who should have been there.
64 players, that many cameras, all in-house, and it runs smoothly. Shout-out to Lisa at Barstool, who basically does everything.

And I can’t believe Sean wasn’t there. Great player, and he adds value to anything he’s in.
Pelli reviewing Joshua’s swing to fix his slice
Pelli’s tip of the week
Fix that slice 👀
It starts late in your backswing.
Most slices come from a lack of depth: how far your hands move behind you, late in the backswing. Pelli’s friend Joshua has a great early takeaway, then does what a lot of people do. The arms lift in the last third. No depth means a steep move, and that is the swipy cut.

The drill
1. Set up a stick about a hand-width from your right bicep, just outside your back right foot, slanted about 45° toward your arm.
2. Keep your early backswing exactly as it is.
3. Turn late and stay under the stick. If you lift your arms, you will hit it.

Stay underneath it and you will shallow the club and control the ball better.
 
That is the week.
The Santino clip, friends turned enemies, and why YGT is a different thing.
George
P.S. 👀 Episode two drops Thursday. Watching along? Hit reply and tell me what you make of it.

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