It wasn’t until the 1996 Adam Sandler movie “Happy Gilmore” that most saw hockey and golf somehow intertwined. It happened again this past week, when the guys from the popular golf YouTube channel Good Good challenged six Coachella Valley Firebirds players to a round in the Coachella Valley.
The video of the round, posted on Wednesday, had more than 114,000 views within the first 11 hours and has now eclipsed more than 294,000 views.
The six Good Good golfers, who have more than 1.4 million followers, played against Firebirds’ Andrew Poturalski, Kole Lind, Shane Wright, Logan Morrison, Luke Henman and Jacob Melanson on one evening at The Lights at Indio Golf Course — the only night-lit course among more than 120 in the valley.
The Firebirds narrowly won the round, by a stroke, which was filmed in early November, with Henman sinking a putt on a playoff hole. The Firebirds had trailed by two strokes late in the round before forging a comeback.
“I’ve been watching their videos from the start,” Henman told The Desert Sun over the phone, “so it was cool to meet them, and the fact that I got to play against them was also really cool.”
The round came together because Garrett Clark, co-founder of Good Good Golf, and Shane Wright follow each other on social media. Clark initiated the invite, Henman said, and Wright helped organize it from the Firebirds’ end.
Many of the Firebirds players are avid golfers who are known to play together during their downtime between games. Poturalski and team captain Max McCormick have joked on social media about taking money from each other on the golf course, and rookie Ryan Winterton has said that hockey, family and golf are his three favorite things.
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The team played a Christmas Eve round together at Stone Eagle Golf Club in Palm Desert last year, with Poturalski saying that it’s becoming an annual tradition.
For the round against the Good Good guys, Henman said that the six Firebirds were not necessarily the best golfers on the team but instead the avid golfers who also closely follow the Good Good guys on YouTube.
“We have a lot of good golfers on our team,” said Henman, a Nova Scotia native who has played golf for 10 years. “But we wanted the guys who knew of the Good Good guys and watched their videos to play the round.”
The segment on the Good Good channel, which is about 40 minutes long, was the first time the public has had a…
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