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YouTube Stars Help Bring Back Golf Channel’s ‘Big Break’

The growth of YouTube/influencer golf has helped revive a defunct Golf Channel competition reality TV series. In 2026, “Big Break” will return for its 24th season, following an 11-year hiatus.

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The growth of YouTube/influencer golf has helped revive a defunct Golf Channel competition reality TV series.

In 2026, Big Break will return for its 24th season, following an 11-year hiatus. 

Big Break was popular among golf fans during its original 12-year run from 2003 to 2015, but then it gained a bit of a cult-classic-like following after it was canceled. Reruns can still be found today on the GolfPass streaming service and other digital platforms.

The new edition is a collaboration with Good Good Golf, the popular content creator group that just signed on to head up a new PGA Tour event in Austin, the Good Good Championship, which will make its debut in November 2026. 

Big Break x Good Good will premiere in August, and the show’s winner will earn an exemption into the aforementioned PGA Tour tournament. Good Good’s Brad Dalke and Sean Walsh will be two of the show’s 12 competitors, while fellow members Garrett Clark and Bubbie Broders will serve as non-playing team captains, and Matt Scharff will cohost the season alongside Golf Channel personality Blair O’Neal.

The reboot will carry on the show’s lure of amateur and aspiring professional golfers competing for a rare spot in a major golf tour event. Throughout the series’ first run, exemptions were earned into tournaments on the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, and European Tour, among others. Notable Big Break alumni include Tony Finau, Wesley Bryian, Matt Every, and Richy Werenski, who all went on to win PGA Tour events later in their careers.

Golf Channel will air Big Break x Good Good, as the cable network continues to forge a new path under Versant, the Comcast spin-off company that also includes USA Network and other cable channels. 

Good Good has previously worked with Golf Channel for televised influencer-led competitions. Some of its members have also participated in editions of the PGA Tour’s Creator Classic events.

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