The anticipation killed Chaz Bowker.
When the YouTube Golf promoter finished filming the Internet Invitational for Barstool Sports, he knew they had the goods. One question remained.
“After the event, I was like, this is absolutely unbelievable,” Bowker told hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz on a recent episode of the show. Subpar Podcast. “This is going to be something in the books that everyone will remember. The waiting game hit. I was like, when are you coming out? When are you coming out? Then, when you came out, you just said whoosh. It was amazing.”
When the event finally went down three months after filming, Bowker, known as Chazzy Golf, had just over 80,000 followers on Instagram. Now, he has 169,000. Bowker, who is 4-foot-4, has competed in the Short Stature Division in three US Adaptive Opens and was one of the stars to emerge from Barstool’s viral golf tournament.
In episode three, after the dramatic death of Luke Kwon, Bowker burst onto the scene with a spectacular performance that saw him sink putts worth $24,000 to defeat Frankie Borelli and Good Good’s Bubbie Broders.
Kwon was the villain of the Internet Invitational when he overslept on his 9:30 am tee time in the second round and cost his team a full point. Kwon showed remorse and said it wasn’t that serious. All of this has set the YouTube Golf internet ablaze.
In the previous episode of Subpar, Barstool Sports’ “Fore Play” podcast host Sam “Riggs” Bozoian, who captained Kwon’s opposite team, explained how the viral moment surprised even those at Barstool.
“It’s funny because when we looked back, after we finished, we were all happy. We all thought it went well,” said Bozoian. “We all thought the drama was crazy. And looking back, I didn’t think about Luke Kwon’s situation. How many other things happened and how good they were. It didn’t occur to me.
“I was the captain of the rival team, so I was just happy that he was sleeping and I just said thank you to him, but I was going to go up to him again and be like, the best thing that happened is that he slept,” he continued. “It took the internet. It’s annoying for him. And, like he’s piling on someone who just slept. So I feel bad for Luke Kwon to a certain extent, and he couldn’t have handled it better later.
“We’ve all been able to handle sh– better all our lives, whatever. But for him to love again, this powerful villain because he just likes to sleep and didn’t apologize too much, it’s like it probably doesn’t matter how much money he got.”
(If you’re confused by any of this, GOLF’s Dylan Dethier has an excellent breakdown of the whole Kwon situation here.)
To hear more from Bowker, watch the entire episode below:
