Roger Steele

Roger Steele is the everywhere man of modern golf. TGL? He MCs it. Internet Invitational? On it both years. Your Golf Tour? Inaugural member.

But even the man himself would have found that hard to believe a couple of decades or so ago. He grew up playing on the west side of Chicago, but by his own admission didn’t exactly love the game growing up. By his own admission, he’d preferred to have been playing basketball, and didn’t exactly advertise that he was a golfer.

His golf clubs collected dust through Roger’s early adulthood as he studied civil engineering, but as with all great comeback stories, his return to the game came on a corporate golf day. Despite only signing up for it as a reason to get out of the office, his big-hitting unsurprisingly turned heads and next thing he knew, he was being lauded in the office as, in his own words, ‘the second coming of Tiger Woods’.

So what does Roger Steele actually do?

As you probably know, Roger Steele is no longer a civil engineer. In an impressive career pivot, he now finds himself MCing TGL, hosting Callaway’s Real Golf Talk podcast, running his own agency called Hipe Media, iand s heavily involved in growing the game in underprivileged communities, particularly with children. And if you’re after an inspirational speaker for your next event, he does that too. 

A busy man, it’s safe to say, but among all that he’s also become a very recognisable face in the world of YouTube golf. He made a name for himself at the inaugural Internet Invitational with his charismatic personality and impressive length off the tee. But while his long game is the most eye-catching part of his game, Steele is also actually a very good golfer. His handicap is a notable absentee from Handicap Tracker and there aren’t all that many references to it, but a couple of sources reference him as a scratch golfer and given the likes of Bubbie Frankie Borrelli are allegedly off sub-5, it’s hard to imagine Steele wouldn’t be pushing into the plus-range.

What can we expect at the Internet Invitational?

This isn’t the first time Rog has teed it up at Black Cedar Lodge, so we know pretty much what we’re going to get from him. He is a really likeable guy and good fun to watch, with a ball speed of in excess of 200mph resulting in some impressive bombs off the tee.

Last year, he made it through Day One alongside Paige Spiranac in a strong pairing before being eliminated as part of Team Riggs on Day Two, but Steele himself played some really good golf. In the first tournament of Your Golf Tour he struggled among some extremely good competition, but while he’s clearly a level or two below the absolute elite of YouTube golf, a few of whom will tee it up at this year’s Internet Invitational, he will still be a highly sought-after selection. Expect him to go a lot closer to the top of the draft board than the bottom.

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