What goes around, comes around. Rick is great and I've enjoyed his content for many years, but when he started he just copied Mark Crossfield (who is the real OG of TH-cam golf ). Grant is now just doing the same....
@jacobdubois710 Yeah - he used to be enjoyable back in the day when he also had Buzzman, Pickard and Gorilla on the channel. Now just takes himself a bit too serious for my liking.
Crossfield was my first TH-cam watch. I don't think he developed the content well enough and got out done my others. Some of those old matches were alot of fun.
While yes you could argue Grant is “copying” Rick it’s honestly just a natural progression based off his views and I’m all for it. Definitely interested in seeing how he fares against Sergio.
I think when you look at it as a whole, if you take the content of the videos away (challenges, vs. pro's, etc.), you're essentially watching for the content creators themselves. It's the same concept as watching streamers for gaming, where you're more invested in the streamer themself (MOST of the time) than the games they play. But ironically, just a few hours ago Nate Rick released a playing golf left handed video... which of course Brad Dalke did just a few weeks ago. I don't ever see golf creators copying each other necessarily, but more or less seeing how their audiences respond to that particular content and just running with it.
I completely agree. Every golf creators plays 3, 6, 9, or 18 holes per vid - sometimes with a little twist (guest or interesting handicap of some sort). Sometimes shortgame vids, etc. But it really is the Personality that brings it home sometimes. And on your other point, @GolfSidekick did a break 100 Left Handed 3 years ago and still does vids with him competing against himself playing leftie. And even he probably isn't original I assume. The real thing is you do actually enjoy some CREATORS more than others - even if they are repeating the same twists. Interesting!
Point is Grant can't play under pressure. It's shown already he is a weekend golfer and that's it. If you can't use the things you teach under pressure don't teach and quit pretending to be good at golf. I'd rather relate to you being a weekend golfer than watch you pretend on youtube.
I mean he fails to break 75 but 90% of the time breaks 80. I'm a 8 handicap and I break 80 maybe once every 15 rounds or so. So rick is 100% better than me. He ain't scratch but he also never says he is @@billyhill1778
Plenty of room on TH-cam for high quality golf content. It isn’t like television. With TV, they’re basically competing for time slots, for a single view. When I open TH-cam, I LOVE having tons of good content to watch. I actually watch wayyyy more TH-cam golf, than I do golf tournaments on TV. Keep it up boys. Rick will be just fine. Haha
You should be careful how you word that title, it makes it seem like Rick accused him of something. That was my initial thought when I read it honestly. Good video though!
Rick has tons of subs because he’s been around literally forever. The problem with Rick is he’s just not a good enough golfer and doesn’t seem to be improving. Lack of skill is fine if you’re full of personality like Bob, Bubbie, Steve, etc… It’s hard to watch someone take their game so seriously when they don’t have a serious game. Forget taking tips from Rick when he’s consistently shooting mid 80’s. No hate on Rick, it’s just everybody else has stepped their TH-cam game way up and Rick has stayed stagnant.
It's the beginning of the end. Rick did accelerate head of Pete, and Pete went rather stale. When Rick hit 1m Pete was struggling for 250k. Now that Pete is one of the best youtube golfers on ability, plus superb editing and content, he's accelerating too. There's only too many times you can watch Rick mess up a break 75 before it becomes boring, I don't watch them anymore for that reason!
Never understood the appeal of Grant. He's a nice enough guy, and a decent golfer. But he has the personality of an A.I.. If you've seen 1 of Grant's videos, you've seen them all...
I agree about his personality, I can never watch him do a round by himself. Only when he has guest on is when I’ll tune in. His swing is pure though, but it can’t keep me engaged enough just by that alone.
@billyhill1778 Well, that's subjective! Regardless, I've always been more partial to Peter Finch. Who actually can perform under tournament pressure. Unlike Grant, Rick, Micah, Luke Kwon, etc...
There is a finite amount of ideas for golf videos. Once you have seen all of them, boredom sets in. In my opinion, once the youtube golfers get sponsors, it goes downhill from there. What would really be nice is to go back to a bunch of buddies playing golf and having fun. We can watch pro golfers on tv.
This couldve been titled "heres what my caffeinated brain thinks about golf guys i watch on youtube." (Insert proverbial Good Good merch.) Dont make it your identity kids.
Grant has "copied" Rick on a number of series. No sirprise really, the guy has been a walking blueprint for a while. But hes not copying per se, its all just similar stuff. The best take in this video is acknowledgement of short hit versus long stay popularuty growth in video views. Thats a massive difference between the content creators approach and their go to markwt strategy, but also a representation of their audiences.
Rick is no perfect golfer - THERE IS NO perfect golfer. He's human, that's what I like - and he doesn't spill sarcastic words against others (some think they are funny, but it s only annoying). Rick's videos are a pleasure to watch ...
I think all the beef is stupid as hell. Good Good to me started a great thing on TH-cam with all the original guys, collaborations and then out of nowhere Garret and that other guy left, people hated on one side or the other and fkn opinions when they all should just randomly play each other do collaborations different games,courses, challenges etc. it’s becoming a soap opera and honestly who gives a shit. Play golf, make content, keep people interested. Bryson talking shit to Brooks is the only beef I cared about and enjoyed. This is stupid. Everybody was cool and now they’re not. Fk em
i think the bigger question is that The Liv promotions team is probably dictating a mini social media campaign on how they want their man Sergio to look like....rather than copy Rick, Grant is just using what was supplied by Liv marketing..the black background questionaire style thing...pretty sure tha was dreamt up by Liv marketing (part of package created to assist youtube and other influencers)... Sergio and Rahm aern't just playing youtubers for the fun or out of the kindness of thier hearts...its all business boys...well duh haha ..we all know that....exactly the same as the PGA players...there promoting on you tube to win hearts and minds!!!
Yes I agree with you, Rick has been around on TH-cam for 15-20 years so he has grown his followers over the years, Grant is still young to TH-cam on his own. Loads of people subscribed to Rick in the early years as there was nothing about TH-cam golf, he’s done well to carry the career along the way with him. I see Grant as a younger guy who is attracting the younger generation in golf, which is great to see.
You bring up a great point about the relevancy of the title and the substance for long term views. Just last week I was struggling with my driver and remembered a great video I had watched a few years before to help fix the issue from Peter Finch so I went back and found it to re-watch.
I think the disconnect and the misunderstanding between these guys is similar to everyone comparing Tiger and Scottie and it's not a fair comparison. Rick has put in the time and has been grinding at the TH-cam thing for a while. Grant has blown up because of when he started his TH-cam channel. When Rick first started, TH-cam itself did not have that many followers, much less golfers. Grant has benefited from the fact that golf is way more popular now than it was 7-8 years ago. So it's not a fair comparison in my opinion. Which brings me to my point about Tiger and Scottie. Tiger turned golf upside down because of his talent. He sent shock waves through the golf world . I will never take away any credit from him for how he changed the sport. But tiger was in a league of his own. It was like watching a rabbit in a turtle race. That is not the same for Scottie. Because of Tiger and technology, the amount of talent is on Tour/ LIV is nothing close to what Tiger was competing with back in the day. Scottie is a rabbit in a turtle race but there are also other rabbits in the race. That's the analogy I can apply to the golf world now. Professional or TH-cam.
Lol. So play him 1 on 1 Rick. Straight stroke play. Winner can post the first 9 holes video to their cannel. Loser gets the second one. We'd love to watch Grant smoke you.
It’s ironic the talk about copying. Rick’s video today is about golfing left handed. golf sidekick has been doing that bit for a couple months, and check out the title of golfsidekick’s video today 😂
He did copy...but let's be honest they all do cos ricks the best at YT. Everyone seems to do 'break' videos now and Rick coined that phrase. However I see it more as a compliment to Rick. Every creator sees him as the tiger of the space
If Rick doesn’t improve soon, he will lose the audience. Grateful for the guy, but he really only blew up because of Covid. Time to move aside or grind it out and get better.
For me, it matters not what their celebrity status is, or isn't. I view golf content to better my game and to applaud those who support the game & the processes on every level. In other words, those who want to be a star thru the means of golf content are perhaps too dysfunctional to be on TH-cam, i.e., in my play list....
In general Grant's swing is much better and if he played Rick 100 times Grant would beat Rick 65 times. Rick has played and beaten Grant on You Tube. Grant wanted to let Rick play a tee up, Rick had none of that and it motivated Rick to "smoke" Grant. Look it up...
The reason why grants videos with Rick don’t do well is because people want to see good golf, and if good golf isn’t available from said individual, that individual needs to be entertaining which Rick just isn’t. Bob does sports isnt great golf but they are entertaining that why they’re videos with grant and performing better.h
Mark Crossfield is the TH-cam golf pioneer. It would have happened anyway but crossfield was the original big channel. Funnily enough Crossfield had young Bryson dechambeau on his channel in Austria or Switzerland a couple of times.
What's good you beautiful man! That 15 year old kid is insane! Grant is looking to differentiate himself and he's doing a great job. Good Catches Nate.
I do love the 18 hole stroke play (one video) format for TH-cam golfers that Grant and other YT like GG Golf are currently doing. The standard six or nine hole format seems too short.
I've un-subbed from Rick last week. He started just getting too petty. Grant's content is great! No one owns their series, everyone can do the same kind of content. People will watch the people they like!
There are similarities across most TH-cam golf content, I really like it when like in on of the last GM videos Grant give kudos to BDS for the food challenge idea.
It is very hard to be confidential with something you are doing in the open. Confidentiality is usually related to secrecy. Why would you want to keep a golf shot secret.
What goes around, comes around. Rick is great and I've enjoyed his content for many years, but when he started he just copied Mark Crossfield (who is the real OG of TH-cam golf ). Grant is now just doing the same....
Yeah that history is interesting Crossfield doesn't get the recognition he probably deserves
Bring back the Muppets!
@jacobdubois710 Yeah - he used to be enjoyable back in the day when he also had Buzzman, Pickard and Gorilla on the channel. Now just takes himself a bit too serious for my liking.
He bullied and mocked those guys and they stopped playing with him, just ask Dan.
Crossfield was my first TH-cam watch. I don't think he developed the content well enough and got out done my others. Some of those old matches were alot of fun.
Jesus christ. Anything you can blab about to get to 10 min to collect $
Lol. Joke video.
Legit 10 minutes about absolutely nothing...did Rick even say anything about it?
Yep, youtube gossip channel with no substance.
yeah, also unfollowed.. turned into unorganized blabber
Yeah I don’t even watch the videos I pause them and look at the comments, to figure it out.
It’s hard to take advice from Rick when he refuses to take any of the same advice.
While yes you could argue Grant is “copying” Rick it’s honestly just a natural progression based off his views and I’m all for it. Definitely interested in seeing how he fares against Sergio.
I think when you look at it as a whole, if you take the content of the videos away (challenges, vs. pro's, etc.), you're essentially watching for the content creators themselves. It's the same concept as watching streamers for gaming, where you're more invested in the streamer themself (MOST of the time) than the games they play. But ironically, just a few hours ago Nate Rick released a playing golf left handed video... which of course Brad Dalke did just a few weeks ago. I don't ever see golf creators copying each other necessarily, but more or less seeing how their audiences respond to that particular content and just running with it.
I completely agree. Every golf creators plays 3, 6, 9, or 18 holes per vid - sometimes with a little twist (guest or interesting handicap of some sort). Sometimes shortgame vids, etc. But it really is the Personality that brings it home sometimes. And on your other point, @GolfSidekick did a break 100 Left Handed 3 years ago and still does vids with him competing against himself playing leftie. And even he probably isn't original I assume. The real thing is you do actually enjoy some CREATORS more than others - even if they are repeating the same twists. Interesting!
Grant is at least 7 shots better than Rick.
Except Rick beat him straight up 😮
Rick is a 10 posing as scratch
Point is Grant can't play under pressure. It's shown already he is a weekend golfer and that's it. If you can't use the things you teach under pressure don't teach and quit pretending to be good at golf. I'd rather relate to you being a weekend golfer than watch you pretend on youtube.
@@OvieKovyWasn’t Grant playing with a rental set because the airline lost his clubs?
I mean he fails to break 75 but 90% of the time breaks 80. I'm a 8 handicap and I break 80 maybe once every 15 rounds or so. So rick is 100% better than me. He ain't scratch but he also never says he is @@billyhill1778
Plenty of room on TH-cam for high quality golf content. It isn’t like television. With TV, they’re basically competing for time slots, for a single view. When I open TH-cam, I LOVE having tons of good content to watch. I actually watch wayyyy more TH-cam golf, than I do golf tournaments on TV. Keep it up boys. Rick will be just fine. Haha
You should be careful how you word that title, it makes it seem like Rick accused him of something. That was my initial thought when I read it honestly. Good video though!
Rick has tons of subs because he’s been around literally forever. The problem with Rick is he’s just not a good enough golfer and doesn’t seem to be improving. Lack of skill is fine if you’re full of personality like Bob, Bubbie, Steve, etc… It’s hard to watch someone take their game so seriously when they don’t have a serious game. Forget taking tips from Rick when he’s consistently shooting mid 80’s. No hate on Rick, it’s just everybody else has stepped their TH-cam game way up and Rick has stayed stagnant.
It's the beginning of the end. Rick did accelerate head of Pete, and Pete went rather stale. When Rick hit 1m Pete was struggling for 250k. Now that Pete is one of the best youtube golfers on ability, plus superb editing and content, he's accelerating too.
There's only too many times you can watch Rick mess up a break 75 before it becomes boring, I don't watch them anymore for that reason!
Never understood the appeal of Grant. He's a nice enough guy, and a decent golfer. But he has the personality of an A.I.. If you've seen 1 of Grant's videos, you've seen them all...
I agree about his personality, I can never watch him do a round by himself. Only when he has guest on is when I’ll tune in. His swing is pure though, but it can’t keep me engaged enough just by that alone.
I like grant. But it does make me laugh when fan boys of his bang on Micah for his personality...at least he has one!
Nate is more A.I
He is significantly more likeable and talented than Rick
@billyhill1778 Well, that's subjective! Regardless, I've always been more partial to Peter Finch. Who actually can perform under tournament pressure. Unlike Grant, Rick, Micah, Luke Kwon, etc...
Grant is becoming the american version of Rick, the content is very similar so yes he is kind of emulating him.
Yea but Rick Shiels can’t break 80 and he’s doing instruction videos, OMG
There is a finite amount of ideas for golf videos. Once you have seen all of them, boredom sets in. In my opinion, once the youtube golfers get sponsors, it goes downhill from there. What would really be nice is to go back to a bunch of buddies playing golf and having fun. We can watch pro golfers on tv.
Rick shiels struggles to break 80, doesn't make him legit as a someone i take advice from. Grant's game is a complete different level.
This couldve been titled "heres what my caffeinated brain thinks about golf guys i watch on youtube." (Insert proverbial Good Good merch.)
Dont make it your identity kids.
Grant has "copied" Rick on a number of series. No sirprise really, the guy has been a walking blueprint for a while.
But hes not copying per se, its all just similar stuff.
The best take in this video is acknowledgement of short hit versus long stay popularuty growth in video views. Thats a massive difference between the content creators approach and their go to markwt strategy, but also a representation of their audiences.
Grant is way more talented and likeable than miserable Rick who fucking sucks honestly
Rick is no perfect golfer - THERE IS NO perfect golfer. He's human, that's what I like - and he doesn't spill sarcastic words against others
(some think they are funny, but it s only annoying). Rick's videos are a pleasure to watch ...
I think all the beef is stupid as hell. Good Good to me started a great thing on TH-cam with all the original guys, collaborations and then out of nowhere Garret and that other guy left, people hated on one side or the other and fkn opinions when they all should just randomly play each other do collaborations different games,courses, challenges etc. it’s becoming a soap opera and honestly who gives a shit. Play golf, make content, keep people interested. Bryson talking shit to Brooks is the only beef I cared about and enjoyed. This is stupid. Everybody was cool and now they’re not. Fk em
As you're here on a channel that is made for the "beef"
i think the bigger question is that The Liv promotions team is probably dictating a mini social media campaign on how they want their man Sergio to look like....rather than copy Rick, Grant is just using what was supplied by Liv marketing..the black background questionaire style thing...pretty sure tha was dreamt up by Liv marketing (part of package created to assist youtube and other influencers)... Sergio and Rahm aern't just playing youtubers for the fun or out of the kindness of thier hearts...its all business boys...well duh haha ..we all know that....exactly the same as the PGA players...there promoting on you tube to win hearts and minds!!!
Yes I agree with you, Rick has been around on TH-cam for 15-20 years so he has grown his followers over the years, Grant is still young to TH-cam on his own. Loads of people subscribed to Rick in the early years as there was nothing about TH-cam golf, he’s done well to carry the career along the way with him. I see Grant as a younger guy who is attracting the younger generation in golf, which is great to see.
This title sounds like Rick is accusing Grant of something…
That’s what it sounds like. Drama?
You bring up a great point about the relevancy of the title and the substance for long term views. Just last week I was struggling with my driver and remembered a great video I had watched a few years before to help fix the issue from Peter Finch so I went back and found it to re-watch.
Bryson has the best golf channel these days
Plus Peter Finch.
@@DXI86Finch is insufferable. If he was made of chocolate he'd eat himself.
Whatever one’s opinions, imitation is the biggest form of flattery.
I think the disconnect and the misunderstanding between these guys is similar to everyone comparing Tiger and Scottie and it's not a fair comparison. Rick has put in the time and has been grinding at the TH-cam thing for a while. Grant has blown up because of when he started his TH-cam channel. When Rick first started, TH-cam itself did not have that many followers, much less golfers. Grant has benefited from the fact that golf is way more popular now than it was 7-8 years ago. So it's not a fair comparison in my opinion. Which brings me to my point about Tiger and Scottie. Tiger turned golf upside down because of his talent. He sent shock waves through the golf world . I will never take away any credit from him for how he changed the sport. But tiger was in a league of his own. It was like watching a rabbit in a turtle race. That is not the same for Scottie. Because of Tiger and technology, the amount of talent is on Tour/ LIV is nothing close to what Tiger was competing with back in the day. Scottie is a rabbit in a turtle race but there are also other rabbits in the race. That's the analogy I can apply to the golf world now. Professional or TH-cam.
It's all a bit petty. It's not like you can only watch one or the other. I'm just glad there's more decent content around these days.
People like to create drama. Grant is doing his thing Rick is doing his thing. I love watching them both and watching them play whomever. Lol.
Agreed - personalities will always be a different factor too. Love em both 💯
I think Rick stumbled in to TH-cam promoting his lessons…. Grant is a student of TH-cam.
Lol. So play him 1 on 1 Rick. Straight stroke play. Winner can post the first 9 holes video to their cannel. Loser gets the second one. We'd love to watch Grant smoke you.
They have. And grant lost
Spyglass hill only had 440k also and its a favored course. It's the algorithm.
It’s ironic the talk about copying. Rick’s video today is about golfing left handed. golf sidekick has been doing that bit for a couple months, and check out the title of golfsidekick’s video today 😂
Waddaplaya
I have more confidentiality in Golf Sidekick. Like a baus.
Waddaplaya
He didnt copy rick, rick starts at -10😂
Haha exactly!😂
He did copy...but let's be honest they all do cos ricks the best at YT. Everyone seems to do 'break' videos now and Rick coined that phrase. However I see it more as a compliment to Rick. Every creator sees him as the tiger of the space
@@billykerridge8719he’s the OG but he’s not a good golfer, he can screw off
@@ConnorCarpenterGolfs what's not being as good at golf got to do with it?
@@ConnorCarpenterGolfs He's no pro for sure but that is asinine. Rick is an exceptional golfer and usually has great advice for new players
If Rick doesn’t improve soon, he will lose the audience. Grateful for the guy, but he really only blew up because of Covid. Time to move aside or grind it out and get better.
He is nowhere close to the talent of most of golf youtube now
No one is watching Rick for his skills. His personality and content is why we watch him. He's loveable and Grant's not
Covid had nothing to do with him blowing up he was already b4 plus he puts his bad shots in and doesn't cut like some people
For me, it matters not what their celebrity status is, or isn't. I view golf content to better my game and to applaud those who support the game & the processes on every level. In other words, those who want to be a star thru the means of golf content are perhaps too dysfunctional to be on TH-cam, i.e., in my play list....
Let’s be honest-all of TH-cam content creators are just copying each other! It just depends on which personalities you like watching play golf!
In general Grant's swing is much better and if he played Rick 100 times Grant would beat Rick 65 times.
Rick has played and beaten Grant on You Tube.
Grant wanted to let Rick play a tee up, Rick had none of that and it motivated Rick to "smoke" Grant.
Look it up...
The reason why grants videos with Rick don’t do well is because people want to see good golf, and if good golf isn’t available from said individual, that individual needs to be entertaining which Rick just isn’t. Bob does sports isnt great golf but they are entertaining that why they’re videos with grant and performing better.h
Nate is a Mazda B Series fan, learn something new everyday. Nothing compares to a Hilux though 😄
Mark Crossfield is the TH-cam golf pioneer. It would have happened anyway but crossfield was the original big channel. Funnily enough Crossfield had young Bryson dechambeau on his channel in Austria or Switzerland a couple of times.
Your life is sitting around analyzing what other yt golfers are doing, that is very sad and I hope you find a better purpose in life
If EVERYONE doesn’t just delete all their YT golf follows and just follow Luke Kwon & TacoGolf you’re absolutely blowing it.
What's good you beautiful man! That 15 year old kid is insane! Grant is looking to differentiate himself and he's doing a great job. Good Catches Nate.
Rick has been making himself look bad for months now. Extremely mid compared to the rest of youtube golf. He just can't accept that it's passed him by
Rick was doing this when all these TH-camrs were babies 👍🏻
Bro is more invested into made up drama than his own shit tf going on here
I do love the 18 hole stroke play (one video) format for TH-cam golfers that Grant and other YT like GG Golf are currently doing. The standard six or nine hole format seems too short.
grant has a video coming with the worlds best 9 year-old
Is this a golf TH-camr who’s content is talking about the content of other golf TH-camrs?
I'd much rather watch Grant's content than Rick's. Rick's has gotten boring
I've un-subbed from Rick last week. He started just getting too petty. Grant's content is great! No one owns their series, everyone can do the same kind of content. People will watch the people they like!
Why is this a competition? Who cares? These guys are just playing golf and we watch it. It gets boring after awhile.
Garrett made Grant Horvat
I dont watch any of those guys. Golf sidekick for me - wadda life
There are similarities across most TH-cam golf content, I really like it when like in on of the last GM videos Grant give kudos to BDS for the food challenge idea.
Who cares
Who cares! They play golf on TH-cam!
Rick Shields is not very confidential with his shots.
It is very hard to be confidential with something you are doing in the open. Confidentiality is usually related to secrecy. Why would you want to keep a golf shot secret.
Good Good
Rick the goat 😂😂😂
Grant has managed to sever ties with a lot of people he has played with, and its all about the money
Rather watch cross field James Robinson or Peter Finch over Rick in that order
Grant is overrated, and is definitely desperate for views! That’s just my opinion which doesn’t matter to anyone but me