Bryson DeChambeau Launches $100,000 Backyard Games with Grant Horvat, Brad Dalke and the Bryan Bros
Bryson DeChambeau's "I'm coming home" teaser over the weekend had some fans wondering whether a return to the PGA Tour was on the cards. It turned out that phrase was a little more literal than most expected.
The two-time major champion on Monday revealed Bryson's Backyard Games, a new competition series on his YouTube channel. It's being played on the same property where he made his famous hole-in-one over his own house in late 2024, a challenge he documented daily until he finally holed it on the 16th day.
How it works
Ten golfers will play one-hole matches across a range of holes set up around DeChambeau's backyard over the next 10 days. The loser of each match goes home and the winner moves on. The property has several green complexes, which lets him build different routings for each match.
Whoever is left standing at the end gets a three-hole match against DeChambeau for US$100,000. There's a catch for the creators, though. If DeChambeau wins, he'll give the money to one of his followers instead.
"The last player standing will play me in a three-hole match for the $100,000. And if I win, I'll be giving it all away to one of my followers," DeChambeau said in the announcement video.
The field
The 10 players taking part are:
Grant Horvat
Brad Dalke
Wesley Bryan
George Bryan
Chance Taylor
Rhett Anderson
Arlynn Spence
Sara Winter
Martin Borgmeier
Chaz Bowker (Chazzy)
It's a mix of some of the biggest names in YouTube golf and a few players who'll be less familiar to casual viewers. Half the field have already been gracing our screens on Your Golf Tour over the past few months, while a number of the others will also be a part of the Internet Invitational later this year.
When it starts
In the reveal video, Bryson told us all to ‘check back tomorrow’ for the first match, so expect it to drop Tuesday, US time, with two players drawn at random to kick things off. With one match a day, the finalist should be decided by early October.
Having previously been cast as something of a villain in the world of professional golf, Bryson has done plenty of work curating his public image over the past few years after, generally to pretty good effect. If he’s hoping to boost his image even further, this is not a bad way to do it - with $100,000 available to one of his followers if he can avoid being beaten in his own backyard, it’s safe to say the masses will be rooting pretty hard for Bryson DeChambeau.
