Montreal Canadiens stars Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki, who have pretty decent day jobs, are giving this whole “Golf YouTuber” thing a try.
OK, OK, they only did it for a day ahead of the 2024 Presidents Cup, which will be held at The Royal Montreal Golf Club, but we still got a video out of it.
The pair, who normally leave little to be desired in the stick-handling department, first struggled with a game of closest-to-the-pin using hockey sticks.
Results did not improve considerably when they switched to golf clubs.
Over a three-hole competition, Caufield ended up climbing under a grandstand to retrieve a ball and standing on the edge of a water hazard to salvage a shot. The latter prompted Suzuki to cheer for him to fall in.
“Not a great performance by us, but it’s a lot of pressure right now,” Suzuki explained.
“We are so bad,” Caufield concurred, before claiming the pair had been made to play “the three hardest holes.”
To the extent that it matters, Suzuki won the friendly-ish game.
“Tough crowd, tough events, tough conditions,” Caufield explained. “Just not my day.”
It was, however, a good day for the pair’s caddies: Two lucky participants in the First Tee program, which seeks to expand access to golf for young people.
While Suzuki and Caufield appear to be entertaining YouTube presences and not-great golfers, the Bad Golf channel already has the centre of that Venn diagram very well covered.