350: John Peterson on Your Golf Tour (SPOILER), “Fore The People” YouTube Channel, + LSU Days with Smylie
About this episode
Smylie Kaufman interviews John Peterson about his experiences on the Your Golf Tour and reflects on their time at LSU.
SPOILER ALERT 🚨 If you havent watched the final round of YGT’s first event. Smylie Kaufman welcomes his former LSU teammate and PGA Tour pro John Peterson to the show, who stepped in as a last-minute wildcard for Wesley Bryan's team at Your Golf Tour's Pursell Farms opener. JP walks through his 48 hours inside the tour (cabin life with Michael Block and Ben Hadden, the wildcard draft format, just how good these YouTube pros actually hit it) and gives a hole-by-hole recap of the singles match that decided his team's fate in the finale, dropping the same day as this episode. Plus: revisiting JP's famous 2011 quote that top amateurs could beat top pros — and why he thinks the last 15 years proved him right — Brad Dalke's eye-opening runner-up week on the DP World Tour, life after pro golf running his Westoplex Garage door company, relaunching a YouTube channel of his own, the reality of YGT's camera-heavy production, and a Ryder Cup detour on why Europe's team-selection system might just be better than ours. And perhaps most importantly: JP tells the story of the buffalo burger (and cheese ball tub) that welcomed a 148-pound freshman named Smylie Kaufman to LSU during a football…
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