You’re telling me a country music star and a couple of his friends took down two PGA Tour professionals?
Luke Combs continue to inch closer and closer to becoming the world’s first country music/YouTuber/golf content creator. Luckily for him, that lane is wide open (please direct me to another country star trying his or her hand at YouTube golf) if he wants to take it.
And judging by his recent appearance on YouTuber Grant Horvat’s golf channel, Luke Combs has what it takes.
The “Beautiful Crazy” singer has been teasing this era of his life for quite some time now. News came out a couple of years back that Combs likes to travel with a golf pro (teaching pro, not tour pro) while he’s out on tour, just to keep his game sharp.
Things got really real with Luke’s golf content creation career when he posted this video back in May and (sarcastically) announced to the world that he was ready to leave music behind and go all in on a YouTube golf career:
“It was nice knowing you country music, but I’m gonna have to chase my calling as a golf content creator.”
Sarcastic responses to bad shots and slamming clubs aside… Luke Combs doesn’t have a bad golf swing.
That was on full display when Grant Horvat dropped his most recent video on YouTube titled “Can I Beat Luke Combs If He Starts 30 Under Par?” If that golf jargon doesn’t make since to you, Grant – a scratch golfer (shoots around even) – basically gave Luke Combs a 30 stroke head start, and they played 18 holes head-to-head.
I won’t spoil how it ends in case you want to watch the video in it’s entirety, but I will say that Luke Combs really held his own and showed some flashes out at Old Hickory Country Club in Old Hickory, Tennessee. He’s evidently gotten a lot better in the past couple of years, and according to Luke Combs, he was good enough to take down a couple of PGA Tour pros a couple of years ago.
The country star explained that he and some friends played at The Grove (another Nashville area course) in 2023, and they scrambled against PGA Tour players Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas. Granted, the rules of the matchup were in favor of Combs and his friends, as Luke elaborated on in his anecdote about his unlikely victory:
“They did best ball with the two of them best ball versus me and three of my buddies playing a scramble. At the turn, we were up six strokes. They were (shocked). They were kind of getting (worked up). So then, on the tee box on 18, it was tied up.
We get on the green. We’ve got a 30-foot eagle putt. I’m like, ‘I’m hitting this.’ (Fowler and Thomas) had a birdie look, and we had a shot for eagle… I drained the 30-foot putt for eagle and we won.”
Hey… not exactly a fair matchup, but Combs still sunk the long eagle putt to secure the win. Doesn’t matter the stipulations of how you beat the two PGA Tour pros, as long as you beat the two PGA Tour pros. Luke Combs certainly feels that way, and had a lot of fun telling the story to Grant Horvat – and the YouTube audience:
