ATLANTA — Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025 — Before the PGA TOUR’s top 30 players descend on East Lake Golf Club to decide the FedExCup, the course is getting one more taste of competitive golf — this time with a camera in everyone’s face.
The Creator Classic at East Lake, presented by YouTube, takes over the course Wednesday afternoon, bringing 12 of the biggest names in golf’s rapidly expanding creator world together for an eight-hole shootout that has a little bit of everything: serious golf, big personalities, mixed-gender competition and, naturally, plenty of internet chaos.
And with $100,000 on the line, this isn’t exactly a casual Wednesday scramble.
Golf’s Internet Stars Take Over East Lake
The field is a pretty fascinating mix.
Luke Kwon, winner of the inaugural Creator Classic at East Lake in 2024, is back to defend his title. Brad Dalke, Sean Walsh and Garrett Clark represent Good Good, while Micah Morris — another familiar face from the Good Good universe — is back in the field.
Then you’ve got Peter Finch, Roger Steele, Chris Solomon of No Laying Up, Tisha Alyn, Gabby Golf Girl, Sabrina Andolpho of Golf Girl Games and Daniel Saloner, better known as Short Game King. Saloner earned his spot by winning the Creator Classic qualifier at East Lake in July.
It’s an eclectic field, and that’s precisely the point.
This isn’t supposed to look like a PGA TOUR leaderboard.
So, How Does This Thing Actually Work?
The format is simple — which is probably a good thing considering some of these creators have spent years making golf complicated in the name of entertainment.
The players will compete on holes 10 through 17 at East Lake, an eight-hole, gross stroke-play competition.
At the end of eight holes, the four lowest scores, including ties, advance to a playoff on No. 18. The playoff is hole-by-hole until somebody wins.
And this year, there’s an actual reason to care about the final putt:
The winner takes home $100,000.
Good Good Is Bringing Some Heavy Hitters
Good Good is particularly well represented.
Dalke, Walsh and Clark make up an entire group, and there’s plenty of legitimate competitive golf in that trio.
Dalke has an impressive résumé outside of YouTube, including a U.S. Amateur runner-up finish and three PGA TOUR starts. Kwon has 46 career starts in PGA TOUR-sanctioned competition and won on PGA TOUR China in 2019. Walsh has 48 career PGA TOUR-sanctioned starts.
So while this event is built around creators, don’t mistake “creator” for “guy who shoots 105 on Sunday morning.”
Some of these guys can really play.
And that makes the competition much more interesting.
Good Good’s involvement also makes perfect sense. The brand has become one of the biggest forces in YouTube golf, and its presence alongside the PGA TOUR shows just how much the lines between traditional golf media and creator media have blurred.
The event itself is officially presented by YouTube and produced with PGA TOUR Studios and Pro Shop Studios, the company behind Full Swing and Happy Gilmore 2.
