Wesley Bryan went after the Pardon My Take (PMT) hosts on X after they mocked his idea for changing the Internet Invitational field. The former PGA Tour winner called them “idiots” and said they twisted his words.
It started Wednesday, when Bryan asked his followers whether the Internet Invitational would be better or worse if the eight highest-ranked golfers in the field were replaced by the eight best players in the world. His list swapped out The Duke, Callux, Jersey Jerry, PFT Commenter, Kyle Forgeard, Trent Ryan, Jon Gruden and The Jet for Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Chris Gotterup, Xander Schauffele and Tommy Fleetwood.
PFT, who co-hosts Pardon My Take, was on Bryan’s team before it was eliminated in Episode 4. He took the opposite side on the show.
“I saw this list, and I thought to myself, you know what? I would go the exact opposite way,” PFT said. “I would rather get rid of the best eight players. And then add eight more that are worse than all of us.”
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Co-host Dan “Big Cat” Katz backed him up. “Because the worst players… any shot could either be a disaster or awesome,” Katz said, adding that the event still needs good golfers like Big John. “But yeah, would that moment have been better if Scottie Scheffler had hit a 20-foot? No, no. Everyone [would be] like, yeah, you’re Scottie Scheffler. You’re supposed to hit this shot.”
Bryan responded directly to the clip. “Y’all are idiots,” he wrote. “How did you spin my words that direction? I was asking the question to the general golf audience. I would rather watch Bob Does Sports than the PGA TOUR. I would rather play alt shot with Bob than a pro golfer. I literally chose YouTube golf for that reason.”
Barstool’s Jersey Jerry, one of the eight players on Bryan’s list, joined in on Sunday. “That dude’s got the personality of a paint can,” Jerry said.
Eight minutes later, Bryan fired back on X. “Jersey jerry has the personality of Santino,” he wrote, referring to comedian Andrew Santino. Jerry replied with two words: “W Gas.”
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Bryan won the 2017 RBC Heritage and played on the PGA Tour until April 2025. That’s when the Tour suspended him indefinitely for playing in The Duels: Miami, a LIV-backed YouTube golf event.
In February, Bryan told Skratch’s Dan Rapaport that he and his wife had sent the Tour a letter asking for reinstatement after Brooks Koepka’s return. “We got a response saying they reviewed the letter,” Bryan said. “But it was from basically their assistant saying ‘no conversation is necessary.'”
The Internet Invitational finale premieres Thursday, Nov. 12, at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube.
