Brad Dalke Is Making a Return to the PGA Tour
Brad Dalke is officially set to return to the PGA Tour after being handed a sponsor's exemption into the Good Good Championship, marking his first start at the top level in nearly a decade. The tournament will be held November 12-15 at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas.
For anyone who knows Dalke primarily through his YouTube content, his competitive background is worth a recap. He won the 2015 Junior PGA Championship, finished runner-up at the 2016 US Amateur, and went on to play in the Masters and US Open in 2017. That same year he was part of the Oklahoma team that won the NCAA Championship. He turned professional in 2019, but over the last couple of years has been devoting is time to content creation, which has clearly paid dividends.
Aside from being a part of one of the biggest channels in YouTube Golf in Good Good, Dalke has also had plenty of competitive success since entering the creative realm. Perhaps most famously, the big-hitter took out a share in $1 million as winner of the inaugural Internet Invitational alongside Francis Ellis and the late Cody ‘Beef’ Franke, but he also won back-to-back Creator Classics in 2025, first at Philadelphia Cricket Club and then at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. The Good Good Championship now adds a PGA Tour start to that list of recent achievements.
Dalke’s high-profile in the YouTube Golf niche means his return to the PGA Tour will no doubt garner plenty of attention, but the man himself is keeping his expectations in check. Speaking to Golf Digest, he acknowledged his game isn't quite where he wants it yet and that he plans to spend the summer getting tournament-ready. When asked about his hopes for the tournament, he sidestepped like a seasoned politician, saying his overall goal was to have fun – something which, he added, generally enables him to play his best golf.
Dalke will be competing in the inaugural edition of the Good Good Championship, a tournament with higher stakes than the name might suggest. While it might sound like another YouTube Golf collaboration – they’ve already got ‘Good Good Majors’ on the Good Good channel – this is a bonafide PGA tournament, one for which Good Good Golf are simply the naming sponsor. Dalke will be one of 120 players taking to Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa for the event, with 500 FedEx Cup points up for grabs for the winner. Interestingly, Dalke won’t be the only creator-world name in the field come November – the Big Break series, a partnership between Good Good and Golf Monthly, will return later this year and see the likes of Sean Walsh compete, with the winner earning a spot in the Good Good championship.
With Ryan Ruffels qualifying for the Myrtle Beach Classic this weekend - and Your Golf Tour also launching later this year - 2026 is shaping up to be a year of transition for YouTube Golf as it begins to develop into a competitive enterprise, rather than just an entertainment one. Undoubtedly, there will be purists shaking their fists at the clouds as they denounce these alternate methods of qualification to legitimate events. Guys like Brad Dalke and Ryan Ruffels, however, are more than capable of holding their own at the top level, and will bring with them plenty of fans that might not otherwise have been following these events.
