Which Pro Golfers Would Make the Best YouTubers?

Bryson DeChambeau is the poster boy for pro golfers on YouTube, having utilised the platform as a means to a) make a very useful second income, and b) rebrand himself as a super fun popular guy – the latter to mixed results. Jason Day has also recently jumped on the gravy train with his Lads channel, which has just hit 200k subscribers, while all manner of other pros have done collaborations with our favourite YouTubers. With the success of those names and YouTube Golf continuing to grow, it’s hard to imagine we won’t see more of them hopping on the bandwagon, which leads to the question – which Tour pros would we most like to see making a few extra (million) bucks a year on YT?

Max Homa

Homa is an obvious first choice among current PGA Tour players who don’t already have a large YouTube presence. His videos with Bob Does Sports are often seen as some of the best out there in YouTube Golf, in part because of his electric golf but probably more significantly because of his personality, which saw him fit in seamlessly with the BDS crew. Homa has good banter and is just cocky enough to be likeable without seeming like too much of an ass – save for a suboptimal moment on tour last weekend when he threw his club on the ground like a petulant child, a week after scalding Sergio Garcia for doing the same thing and making tour players look like petulant children. But hey, nobody’s perfect and Homa has garnered more than enough goodwill among the golfing public to think that he could pull off a very successful YouTube channel.  

Min Woo Lee

Min Woo Lee is certainly not shy behind a camera, and if his Instagram page is anything to go by he’s more than happy to get a little extra exposure on top of what he gets by playing in the world’s biggest golf tournaments every weekend. The man who shamelessly refers to himself as Dr Chipinski boasts a casual 964,000 followers on Instagram, and no doubt plenty of those would happily slide across to YouTube for some longer form content from the Aussie. Min Woo seems like he would have phrases like “aura farming” and “6-7” firmly embedded in his vocabulary, so his theoretical channel would probably have a lot more Gen-Z’ers in its subscriber base than some others, but based on his social media success, there’s more than enough of them around.

Jon Rahm

Jon Rahm has spread himself generously across the major YouTube Golf channels over the past couple of years, having appeared on videos with each of the Bryan Bros, Grant Horvat, Good Good and Bob Does Sports. It’s safe to say that the behaviour of the personalities on those channels varies quite significantly, but Rahm was able to integrate himself seamlessly into all of them. A little like Homa, Rahm is a likeable guy who has already made something of a name for himself on YT, and who knows, given the current direction of LIV he might have a bit of unanticipated spare time on his hands soon.

Tyrrell Hatton

There are a host of reasons why Bob Does Sports has enjoyed so much success, but undoubtedly one of them is the entertainment value which comes from watching Joey Cold Cuts’ blow-ups. Given Tyrell Hatton’s propensity to erupt like Mount Vesuvius at the drop of a hat, having a camera in his face for the entirety of a round could make for some very entertaining videos. Some of his more entertaining on-course misdemeanours include him punching and then pointing angrily at his putter as though it was a deviant child, demanding his caddy answer him after asking “Have you ever seen a worse golf shot?”, and perhaps most articulate of all after a rogue drive in 2024, ““F***** what a w*** bounce that was. If it f***** bounces left it’s fine. F*** you. F***** c***”. When asked last year if he would ever change, Hatton answered “I’m 33. I think that ship has sailed”. Despite all that, Hatton generally seems reasonably popular among his peers and directs all anger towards himself and his poor clubs. Realistically it’s hard to imagine him laying himself bare to the public in the way YouTube Golf does, but it would make for some very entertaining viewing.   

A short history of some his finest work can be watched below (and bear in mind, this is posted by DP World Tour, so there is far worse out there that they’ve omitted):

Rory McIlroy

Golf has undergone numerous revolutions over the past few years, with LIV, YouTube Golf and more recently TGL providing alternate ways in which to consume the game and forcing the monopolistic PGA Tour to consider the concept of ever actually changing anything in order to continue appealing to fans. It’s safe to say McIlroy has not taken kindly to all of these changes. Though he’s happy to indulge in TGL, he was an ardent critic of LIV throughout its early days, and has also taken aim at YouTube Golf by claiming that he would “much rather watch pure, competitive…I’d much rather watch this golf tournament on Sunday than watch YouTube Golf”. Unsurprisingly, he’s never made an appearance on any of the channels we know and love.

Rory is the Great White Buffalo for YouTube Golf; the man for whom our love is entirely unrequited. It’s probably about as likely as him joining the potentially sinking ship that is LIV, but if ever YouTube Golf manages to win over the two-time reigning Masters champion, then YouTube Golf can win over anyone.