Internet Invitational 2026 Episode 4: Winners and Losers

Updated on: November 5, 2026 • ~14 min read

Author: Graeme

The last putt of day two at the Internet Invitational was short enough to give.

Kyle Forgeard wouldn't give it.

"I love you to death, but I cannot," he told Salim Sirur, his NELK partner, with a crowd of players watching from the edge of the green.

Salim holed it, Team Ruffels reached 12½ points, and all 16 players on Team Bryan were out, including captain Wesley Bryan and the event's own co-host, Bob Does Sports.

Below, I'll go through how the singles were set up, the three rules rows behind the episode's title and every match.

Then come the winners and losers, picked the same way as the first three episodes: on what the afternoon did for each player's reputation and channel, whatever the result.

About the author: Graeme Whiles is the founder of Three Putt Golf Clothing and plays off 12.4 in West Yorkshire. He has tested and reviewed more than 100 golf clothing brands on this journal, including several you'll see at the Internet Invitational.

Short on time? Here are the key takeaways:

• The score: Team Ruffels (White) beat Team Bryan (Green) 12½ to 6½, so all 16 Green players are out.
• The decider: Salim Sirur won the last two holes to beat Kyle Forgeard 1 up, and Kyle made him hole the final putt.
• Biggest row: Cheddy couldn't name the ball he was playing on the 18th, and the two-shot penalty cost him a win over Riggs.
• Biggest upsets: Evan Thompson beat Grant Horvat, and Claire Hogle beat Paige Spiranac, both 1 up.
• Biggest loser: Bob Does Sports, beaten 4 and 3 by Justin Gaethje and now out of his own event.

In this article:

• How the singles were set up
• The three rules rows
• Episode 4, match by match
• Episode 4 winners
• Episode 4 losers
• What happens next: the four-team shootout
• Internet Invitational FAQs

How the Singles Were Set Up

Team Ruffels (White) went into the afternoon leading 6 to 2 after the morning scramble.

That meant it needed 6½ of the 16 points on offer, while Team Bryan (Green) needed 10½.

• The format: 16 singles matches of nine holes each, played from the 10th to the par-5 18th.
• Points: one for a win and a half for a tie, with 12½ needed to go through.
• The stakes: all 16 players on the losing team went home.

Both teams were asked to rank their players from 1 to 16, but the committee set the matches itself.

When Big Cat asked Wesley Bryan for his list, the answer was "just go off my draft order".

The first version of the board didn't last long.

After some debate about who was really what handicap, a late switch moved Bob Does Sports away from Bobby Ray and on to Justin Gaethje, the UFC fighter.

The biggest reaction came from Ryan Whitney, the former NHL player who now hosts a hockey podcast for Barstool.

He drew Sabrina Andolpho, off the same tees, and decided Dave Portnoy had done it on purpose.

"It's the ultimate lose-lose," he told Portnoy, apparently forgetting he was wearing a microphone.

"If he wins, he loses. If he loses, he loses," was the verdict.

Portnoy then went straight to Sabrina and told her Whitney was "very afraid".

Who dresses them: Whitney has a Spittin' Chiclets x Rhoback polo, sold through Barstool (here's our Rhoback review). I couldn't confirm a clothing deal for Sabrina, whose brand ties are with Takomo and L.A.B. Golf, which both make equipment.

If you're catching up, Episode 1 explains the draft and who wears what, and Episode 2 covers Big John's playoff putt.

Episode 4 runs to four hours and two minutes on the Bob Does Sports channel.

The Three Rules Rows

The episode is called "Things Get Heated", and most of the heat came from the rules of golf.

Big John's ball: Sam Heung Min saw Big John's ball move as he addressed it in the fairway.

He didn't want to be "that guy", so Wesley Bryan raised it for him.

Big John said he hadn't noticed, then admitted he'd "been drinking all day" and might have touched it. He picked up and gave Sam the hole.

Later in the same match, Sam's own ball moved on the green, and he called the penalty on himself without being asked. "Ball don't lie," he said.

Cheddy's tee: Justin Gaethje, by then finished with Bob, told Cheddy he'd moved his ball with the tee he was marking it with.

Play stopped for a ruling.

Kevin Kisner confirmed that a ball moved while you're marking it just gets replaced, and Gaethje couldn't call it anyway because he wasn't in that match.

When someone asked why that wasn't how it worked last year, Portnoy had his answer ready: "I make it up as I go."

Cheddy's ball: Cheddy stood on the par-5 18th tee 1 up on Riggs and smashed his drive towards the trees.

Two TaylorMade balls turned up, but he couldn't say which was his. He'd thrown his Titleist in a pond after a missed putt and pulled out a new ball without looking at it.

"I buy refurbished golf balls," he explained.

His three minutes ran out, he took a drop and a two-shot penalty, and Riggs won the hole to halve the match.

"I'm openly rooting for Cheddy, and Riggs works for me," Portnoy said from his cart, before realising Riggs had heard everything.

Episode 4, Match by Match

Here's how all 16 finished, in the order they appeared on the board, with White's player first:

• Riggs v Cheddy: halved, after that 18th hole.
• Justin Gaethje v Bob Does Sports: White won 4 and 3.
• Big John v Sam Heung Min: White won 3 and 2.
• Ryan Ruffels v Wesley Bryan: halved. The two captains went down the 18th all square and halved that as well.
• Paige Spiranac v Claire Hogle: Green won 1 up.
• Bubbie Broders v Mac Boucher: Green won 4 and 3.
• Grant Horvat v Evan Thompson: Green won 1 up.
• Micah Morris v George Bryan: halved. Micah was 1 up with one to play, and George won the last.
• Salim Sirur v Kyle Forgeard: White won 1 up, from 1 down with two to play.
• Jon Gruden v PFT Commenter: White won 3 and 2.
• Fat Perez v Seb Carmichael-Brown: White won 2 and 1.
• Ryan Whitney v Sabrina Andolpho: not finished. Whitney was 2 up with two to play, and Sabrina won the 17th to take it down the last.
• Marissa Wenzler v Chaz Bowker: not finished, and level at the last update.
• Jake Adams v Cole Lantz: not finished, and level at the last update.
• Bobby Ray v Tisha Alyn: not finished. It was all square on the 14th, where Bobby Ray hit a 6-iron from 250 yards on to the green.
• The Duke v Callux: not finished, with Callux 2 up. Earlier on, the Duke was lying eight in a bunker and still wouldn't concede.

That's 12½ to 6½ to Team Ruffels.

White needed 6½ from the singles and got exactly that from the 11 matches that finished. As soon as it had them, the other five were called in.

Episode 4 Winners

Salim Sirur

In Episode 3, Gruden told Salim he'd just hit "the biggest shot of your golfing career".

That record lasted one episode.

Salim is a NELK member with around 850,000 subscribers on his own channel, and Kyle Forgeard co-founded NELK, so this was the most personal match on the board.

"We're partners," one of them said on the 10th tee.

The other thought it was "just going to be a friendly match", and was told otherwise.

Kyle was 1 up with two to play. Salim won the 17th, then made par on the 18th to win that too.

By his own count, he was "like 11 shots" deep by then. He was carried off the green on someone's shoulders.

The NELK audience is huge, and it has just watched one of its own send a team through at a $4 million golf event.

That's the clip of the series so far.

Who dresses him: I couldn't confirm a personal clothing deal for Salim, although NELK has its own brand, Full Send, with a Full Send Golf range of polos, hats and quarter-zips.

Claire Hogle and Mac Boucher

Green won three matches outright, and two of them came from this cart.

Mac made three birdies and beat Bubbie Broders 4 and 3. Claire had a much harder draw: Paige Spiranac, the biggest name in women's golf content.

With his own match over, Mac spent the rest of the round coaching her, down to the shape of her 9-iron into the 18th.

It finished close, Paige's birdie putt stayed out, and that was that.

"That was like to a tee what I wanted you to do," he told her.

In Episode 3, Claire halved a match without ever going ahead. One episode later, she's the player who beat Paige.

Who dresses them: Claire is sponsored by BYLT Basics. Mac had Primo Golf Apparel among his sponsors in 2025, the brand Grant Horvat co-owns (here's our Primo review).

Evan Thompson

Grant Horvat has been one of the stars of this series.

Evan Thompson was 1 down to him with four to play, and admitted in the cart that he was "picking grass straws".

He squared the match, holed a five-footer up the hill on the 17th to keep it square, and then hit his approach to the 18th so close that Horvat conceded the eagle putt.

George Bryan, in the same group, came back from 2 down to halve with Micah Morris.

"We were looking at zero points and came away with a point and a half," Evan said.

It didn't save Green, but beating Horvat is the best advert Evan's channel could ask for.

Who dresses him: Thompson wears Dual Sport, the brand he founded. Horvat co-owns Primo Golf (here's our Primo review).

Big John and Sam Heung Min

"You could hang out with Sam for all day. You might hear three words come out of his mouth," as one of the group put it. "Big John, you might hear 30,000 words."

That's about how it went. Big John took a penalty he clearly disagreed with, then told anyone who'd listen that he was "not a hardo".

He'd never have called Sam, he said, even at $1.3 million.

Then he won 3 and 2 and took the first pick in the shootout draft.

Sam lost the match and came out of it even better. He raised a rule against one of the event's most popular players, then applied the same rule to himself.

He's from New Zealand, and by the end of the afternoon, "Kiwi grit" was a catchphrase.

Who dresses them: Big John still has no clothing deal that I can find, only a putter partnership with Reaper Golf. Sam co-founded his own brand, WEHITFAIRWAYS.COM, with Taco and Tooms.

Cheddy

Before the singles, his own team told him he'd "taken the last couple sessions off". He responded by starting a feud with Riggs.

"I'm not giving away a gimme ever," he said early on, and he didn't.

When he was told it showed "zero class" to leave the flag out, he had an answer ready: "We don't all play at Whisper. I play at munis."

He led for most of the back nine, and he'd have won if he could have named his golf ball.

Instead, he left with half a point and the biggest endorsement in the event: Barstool's owner rooting for him against his own employee.

For a creator with around 30,000 YouTube subscribers, that's a very good day's work.

Who dresses him: I still can't find a clothing deal for Cheddy. On this evidence, somebody should offer him one.

Justin Gaethje

Gaethje beat Bob 4 and 3 on the 15th, and he didn't go back to the clubhouse.

He stayed out with Riggs, who was in the same group and behind to Cheddy. "Gaethje grabbed me by the collar after 15," Riggs said afterwards, and Riggs got his half.

A fighter who takes a golf event this seriously is a gift to the show.

Ruffels clearly agreed, taking him with the first pick of round two in the shootout draft.

Who dresses him: I couldn't confirm a golf clothing deal for Gaethje either, so he's another one for the brands to chase.

Episode 4 Losers

Bob Does Sports

Episode 3 ended with Bob calling his comeback "the time of my life".

Episode 4 ended with him out of the event.

The late switch sent him to Gaethje, and it was over on the 15th. "We threw him to the wolves," someone admitted to Portnoy in a cart, in between arguing about whose idea it was.

"He beat me bad," Bob said, and reckoned that if he'd played Gaethje's 300 rounds, he'd be Phil Mickelson.

Bob co-hosts this event and his channel put this episode out, but he won't hit another shot in it.

Who dresses him: Bob wears Breezy, which he and the Bob Does Sports crew built themselves (here's our Breezy review).

PFT Commenter

In 2025, PFT was the most compelling storyline of the week.

In 2026, he's finished with four defeats from four.

The last came against Jon Gruden, 3 and 2, in a match that was a good idea for television and a bad afternoon for PFT.

Gruden, meanwhile, spent the back nine being told "what a shot, coach".

PFT is still one of Barstool's biggest names, but a year without a single win is a long way down from year one.

Who dresses him: PFT wears Pardon My Take merch from Barstool (here's our Barstool review). Gruden has Barstool's "Coach Gruden" range, which includes a Peter Millar polo (our Peter Millar review).

Wesley Bryan

He beat Brad Dalke's team on day one, and he halved with Ruffels in the singles.

However, a captain gets judged on the team, and Team Bryan was never in it. It took 2 points from the eight morning matches and won only three of the 11 singles that finished.

Wesley and George Bryan are two of the most recognised names in YouTube golf, and both are now out with two episodes to go.

Who dresses them: Wesley and George Bryan are both sponsored by Rhoback (here's our Rhoback review). Ruffels, on the other side of the draw, is sponsored by Malbon (our Malbon review).

Riggs

On the scoreboard, Riggs had a decent afternoon, coming back from 2 down to halve the match. Off it, he lost the crowd.

He complained about the flag, and on the 18th he wanted to know whether Cheddy's ball needed a mark on it.

"What's the ruling on that?" someone asked. "There is none."

When your boss is on camera rooting for the other man, it hasn't been your day.

After losing a two-hole lead in Episode 3, that's two episodes in a row where he's come out looking worse than the score.

Who dresses him: Riggs wears Barstool's Fore Play golf range, which has included adidas co-branded pieces since January 2026 (here's our Barstool review and adidas review).

Kyle Forgeard

Kyle was 1 up with two to play and needed to win to keep Green alive.

He lost both holes, missing his par putt on the 18th.

That's three defeats in a row, and the last one will be replayed for the rest of the series.

In fairness, how he lost is the best thing he's done at this event.

He told Salim he couldn't give him the putt, then told him to go and make it.

"I want everybody watching," he said on his way to the 18th tee. Everybody was.

Who dresses him: Kyle wears Full Send, the clothing brand of the NELK channel he co-founded.

Paige Spiranac

On Monday, Paige holed a $200,000 putt.

On Thursday, she stood on the 18th green and said: "I've never played worse."

One hole went from a bunker to a rock to a bladed chip and another rock.

"It's just bad golf," she said, and to her credit, she did say it.

She holed a clutch putt on the 17th to keep the match alive, and she's still in the event because her team won.

Still, this was the episode in which one of the best-known names in the field needed her team-mates to carry her through.

Who dresses her: I still can't confirm a current clothing deal for Paige.

What Happens Next: The Four-Team Shootout

Team Ruffels didn't get long to celebrate.

"Four of you are going home tonight," the committee told them back at the clubhouse.

The 16 survivors were split into four teams of four, under four captains: Big John, Grant Horvat, Micah Morris and Ryan Ruffels.

Big John took Fat Perez with the first pick, Horvat took Jake Adams and Micah took Ryan Whitney. Ruffels, at the turn of the snake draft, took Marissa Wenzler and Justin Gaethje.

The Duke went last, again.

It works like this:

• One player from each team plays a hole, and the best score is safe. Ties for the best score all go through.
• The teams left in send out their next player for the next hole.
• As soon as one team is alone at the bottom of a hole, all four of its players go home.

The episode ends with the first group on the tee. These teams only last for the shootout, because there's a redraft the following day.

Who dresses the captains: Big John has no clothing deal that I can find. Horvat co-owns Primo (our Primo review), Micah Morris is sponsored by Bad Birdie (our Bad Birdie review) and Ruffels is sponsored by Malbon (our Malbon review).

Final Thoughts

Episode 4 turned on small things that could have been waved through and weren't.

Sam called a penalty on himself. Big John took one he didn't agree with. Kyle made his friend putt a short one with his whole team's event riding on it.

The players who came out best held themselves to the game, even when it cost them.

The ones who came out worst were busy arguing about somebody else's ball.

Episode 5 is out on Monday, November 9, at 1pm ET (6pm UK), and the finale follows on Thursday, November 12.

At Three Putt, we've got a line for what Kyle did: no gimmies.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Internet Invitational Episode 4

Who won Internet Invitational Episode 4?

Team Ruffels (White) beat Team Bryan (Green) 12½ to 6½ to finish day two. Salim Sirur secured the winning point by beating Kyle Forgeard 1 up, winning the last two holes. Five singles matches were left unfinished. All 16 Green players were eliminated, and the 16 White players moved on to a four-team shootout.

Who is out of the Internet Invitational after Episode 4?

All 16 players on Team Bryan are out: Wesley Bryan, George Bryan, Bob Does Sports, Cheddy, Sam Heung Min, Claire Hogle, Mac Boucher, Evan Thompson, PFT Commenter, Kyle Forgeard, Sabrina Andolpho, Seb Carmichael-Brown, Chaz Bowker, Cole Lantz, Tisha Alyn and Callux. Four more players from Team Ruffels go home in the shootout that ends the episode.

Why did Cheddy get a penalty at the Internet Invitational?

On the par-5 18th, Cheddy's drive finished near the trees and two TaylorMade balls were found, but he couldn't say which was his. He had thrown his Titleist in a pond and taken a new ball without noting the number. His search time ran out, and he took a drop and a two-shot penalty.

Who is still in the Internet Invitational?

Before the shootout, 16 players were left: Ryan Ruffels, Riggs, Justin Gaethje, Big John, Paige Spiranac, Bubbie Broders, Grant Horvat, Micah Morris, Jon Gruden, Salim Sirur, Fat Perez, Ryan Whitney, Marissa Wenzler, Jake Adams, Bobby Ray and The Duke. The shootout at the end of Episode 4 sends four of them home.

How does the Internet Invitational shootout work?

The 16 White players were drafted into four teams of four, captained by Big John, Grant Horvat, Micah Morris and Ryan Ruffels. One player from each team plays a hole, and the best score is safe, with ties going through. The remaining teams then play the next hole. As soon as one team is alone at the bottom of a hole, all four of its players are eliminated.

When is Internet Invitational Episode 5?

The next episode lands on Monday, November 9, at 1pm ET (6pm UK), with the finale, Episode 6, following on Thursday, November 12, at the same time. You can watch on the Bob Does Sports, Fore Play Golf and official Internet Invitational YouTube channels, where all six episodes of the 2026 series are going out.