Internet Invitational Golf Tournament
The Internet Invitational is a creator-golf tournament built around online golf personalities, team competition, video coverage, and a large prize-money format. The event brings the golf internet into a tournament-style setting instead of a normal one-off creator match.
The first Internet Invitational was played in 2025 at Big Cedar Lodge and featured 48 golf creators competing for a $1 million prize. The tournament returned in 2026 with 64 players, four drafted teams and a confirmed $4 million championship prize.
Season 2 is being released in six episodes from October 26 through November 12. This tournament hub carries the event overview, venue, format, watch information and history; the separate results and episode tracker carries the teams, match scores, eliminations and upcoming releases.
⛳ Internet Invitational Tournament Overview
The Internet Invitational is part creator-golf event, part team tournament, and part online golf series. It became one of the most visible social-media golf competitions because it combined recognizable golf creators, a large prize, team drama, and a multi-episode tournament format.
Quick Event Overview
The 2026 Internet Invitational was filmed during the week of August 10 at Big Cedar Lodge and is now being released as a six-episode YouTube series. Episode 1 introduced the 64-player field, four captains, snake draft and opening scramble matches at Ozarks National.
Event Setting
- Event: 2026 Internet Invitational
- Organizers: Barstool Sports, Fore Play, and Bob Does Sports
- 2026 filming: Completed during the week of August 10
- 2026 venue: Big Cedar Lodge / Big Cedar Golf, Ridgedale, Missouri
- Confirmed prize pool: $4 million
- Field: 64 players drafted into four teams of 16
- Captains: Peter Finch, Ryan Ruffels, Brad Dalke and Wesley Bryan
- Day 1 course: Ozarks National
- Episode schedule: October 26 through November 12 at 1 p.m. ET
- Venue history: Big Cedar Lodge also hosted the 2025 debut
- Results: CaddyBytes Results & Episode Tracker
What Matters Most
- Creator field — 64 golf personalities, athletes and entertainers were drafted into four teams.
- $4 million prize pool — the confirmed 2026 purse is four times the $1 million offered for the debut event.
- Day 1 competition — nine-hole scramble and alternate-shot sessions reduce the field from 64 players to 32.
- Watch details — new YouTube episodes arrive Mondays and Thursdays at 1 p.m. ET through November 12.
Coverage Notes
- Use this hub for the event overview, format, venue, watch information and history.
- Use the results tracker for team rosters, match scores, eliminations and the episode schedule.
- Keep this page focused on the Internet Invitational tournament, not general creator-golf chatter.
- Follow the news feed for episode recaps, highlights and developing storylines.
⛳ 2026 Filming Venue — Big Cedar Lodge
The 2026 Internet Invitational was filmed at Big Cedar Lodge and the Big Cedar Golf resort setting in Ridgedale, Missouri. The event returned after the resort hosted the 2025 debut.
Big Cedar Golf Setting
- Golf resort: Big Cedar Lodge / Big Cedar Golf
- Location: Ridgedale, Missouri, in the Ozarks
- Confirmed event role: 2026 filming venue and host of the 2025 debut
- 2026 venue status: Filming completed during the week of August 10
- Confirmed Day 1 course: Ozarks National
Big Cedar Golf includes multiple resort courses and short-course settings. Episode 1 confirms Ozarks National as the Day 1 course, with later routing revealed as the remaining episodes are released.
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2026 Internet Invitational
Event Details
Status: Season 2 now streaming
Venue: Big Cedar Lodge, Ridgedale, Missouri
Prize Pool: $4 million
Format: 64 players / four drafted teams
Episode 1 is available now. Episode 2 arrives October 29 at 1 p.m. ET, with the finale scheduled for November 12.
Results Tracker Event Highlights 2026 Host VenueInternet Invitational Coverage
2026 Internet Invitational
Creator Golf Tournament
Season 2 Now Streaming — $4 Million Championship Prize
The 64-player field was drafted into four teams captained by Peter Finch, Ryan Ruffels, Brad Dalke and Wesley Bryan.
Day 1 uses nine-hole scramble and alternate-shot sessions at Ozarks National.
Two complete teams advance after Episode 2 and 32 players are eliminated.
Watch Information
Streaming / TV / Highlights
Internet Invitational viewing details
New episodes premiere Mondays and Thursdays at 1 p.m. ET through the November 12 finale.
Episodes are distributed through Fore Play Golf, Bob Does Sports and the Internet Invitational on YouTube.
Teams and Field
64 Players / Four Teams
Complete drafted field at Big Cedar Lodge
Peter Finch leads Blue, Ryan Ruffels leads White, Wesley Bryan leads Green and Brad Dalke leads Red.
Notable competitors include Paige Spiranac, Grant Horvat, Rick Shiels, Johnny Manziel, Justin Gaethje and Jon Gruden.
2026 Host Venue
Big Cedar Lodge, Missouri
Filmed at Big Cedar Golf
The Internet Invitational has returned to Big Cedar Lodge after the resort hosted the 2025 debut.
Ozarks National hosts the Day 1 scramble and alternate-shot sessions.
2025 Debut Event
Internet Invitational History
Big Cedar Lodge
The first Internet Invitational brought 48 creators into a tournament-style golf event.
The event was hosted by the Barstool Sports, Fore Play, and Bob Does Sports golf universe.
Confirmed $4 Million Prize Pool
2026 Tournament Stakes
Creator-golf prize format
Barstool Sports has confirmed a $4 million prize pool for the second Internet Invitational.
The purse is four times the $1 million offered for the 2025 debut event.
The eventual three-player championship team will split the $4 million prize, approximately $1.33 million per champion.
Internet Invitational History
The Internet Invitational launched in 2025 as a large-scale creator-golf tournament hosted by the Barstool Sports, Fore Play, and Bob Does Sports golf world. The debut event brought dozens of golf creators to Big Cedar Lodge for a tournament-style competition built around teams, pressure, personality, and a major prize.
Brad Dalke, Francis Ellis and Cody “Beef” Franke won the 2025 championship, defeating Paige Spiranac, Frankie Borrelli and Malosi Togisala 1 up in the alternate-shot final and splitting the $1 million prize.
The 2026 edition returned to Big Cedar Lodge with 64 players and a $4 million championship prize. Season 2 is being released in six episodes from October 26 through November 12, with the complete teams, scores, eliminations and upcoming matches maintained in the CaddyBytes results tracker.