WATCH: Mac Boucher hits upside down driver in YouTube golf’s Creator Classic

The 2024 Creator Classic at East Lake Golf Club was always going to produce something out of the ordinary but this upside down driver stunt had everyone shocked.

Mac Boucher may have missed the fairway but considering the left-hander hit his tee shot with an upside down right-handed club, it was a great effort

YouTube golf’s spectacular year culminated with Wednesday’s Creator Classic, which saw 16 of the platform’s top stars compete at East Lake on the eve of the TOUR Championship.

The first-of-its-kind event had over 110,000 live views on YouTube. It was also broadcast simultaneously on ESPN+ and Peacock. Luke Kwon defeated Wesley Bryan, Sean Walsh, and Roger Steele in a sudden-death playoff on the par-5 18th to win the event’s debut edition.

“The response from fans and from the content creators themselves has been overwhelming,” PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan said.

It was a watershed moment for YouTube golf, which has gradually begun to integrate with the professional golf scene.

In March, a group of YouTube producers and professional golfers participated in “The Q at Myrtle Beach,” an 18-hole qualifying tournament that provided an exemption to the PGA TOUR’s Myrtle Beach Classic. It was won by Matt Atkins, a former PGA TOUR player who has been on the Bryans’ channel.

TOUR professionals make regular guest appearances for the producers, who have become friends. The Bryan brothers and fellow video producer Grant Horvat provided an alternate ESPN+ feed of the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Thursday and Friday, with Horvat calling the game from TPC Southwind.

The event reflected the competitive but wacky YouTube milieu in which many of the producers operate.

Riggs, Trent, and Frankie of Barstool’s Fore Play hit ceremonial tee shots to kick off the tournament. On top of Mac Boucher, a Canadian trick-shot artist who is left-handed, turning a right-handed driver upright and hit his initial tee shot from 285 yards, Mason Nutt, of BustaJack Golf, whacked a driver off the deck.

In addition, Garrett Clark from Good Good made a quintuple bogey on the par-4 12th while Roger Steele, who hosts Callaway’s Range Talk, hit a 346-yard drive on the 10th, registering 195mph ball speed.

TV, Netflix, and YouTube cameras captured the entire experience.