Masters 2026: YouTube golf star Brad Dalke attends Masters as a patron, gets asked for more autographs than most of the pros
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Brad Dalke won the 2015 Junior PGA Championship, finished runner-up at the 2016 U.S. Amateur, helped Oklahoma to the 2017 NCAA National Championship and has played in both the Masters and U.S. Open. He’s experienced more “conventional” golf success than 99 percent of planet earth, but he didn’t find stardom until he stepped away from the PGA Tour chase altogether.
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Dalke landed at Good Good Golf, and while it took a little while to find his feet at the YouTube golf juggernaut, he became a household name (at least amongst 18-to-35-year-olds) last fall when he led a rag-tag team of Francis Ellis and Cody “Beef” Franke to a win at the inaugural Internet Invitational. YouTube agnostics still may not understand how popular Dalke and his peers have become with younger golfers, but Monday helped to illustrate the point when Dalke arrived at Augusta National as a patron and but quickly found himself signing autographs like a pro. Check it out.
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As the old adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, then this is the ‘War and Peace’ of YouTube golf. A decade ago, seeing young golfers more excited for a YouTuber than a tour pro would have been unthinkable. Now it’s happening at Augusta National, one of the last bastions of old-school golf tradition.
Some will say the game is gone, but in reality, it’s just changing. Dalke represents a new generation of elite golfer, one who can post a number on some of the toughest, most tour-ready tracks on earth but chooses to operate outside the ropes. Whether he and others like him—the Bryan Bros., Grant Horvat, et al.—will prove to be the exception or the rule remains to be seen, but Dalke’s autograph session at Augusta shows how far they’ve already come.