"Their impact on the game is huge, and with that size and scope of that lens on you, there is a responsibility, and I think they've realized that, probably in this ad and everything," Mahan told OutKick.Good Good, the wildly popular YouTube channel and golf brand, teamed up with Callaway in late August and collaborated on a driver.To promote the new club, Good Good shared an advertisement in which co-founder Garrett Clark shoved a female member of the brand to the ground.Garrett Clark walks along the 15th hole during the 2025 Tour Championship Creator Classic, presented by YouTube, prior to TOUR Championship, at East Lake Golf Club, on Aug.
20, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.(Ben Jared/PGA TOUR via Getty Images)THE SCOTTIE VS TIGER COMPARISON, MICHAEL BLOCK'S PARTY GETS SHUT DOWN, AND A FINAL WORD ON YOUTUBE GOLF DRAMAAfter deleting the ad and sharing multiple apologetic statements, Callaway has cut ties with Good Good, the brand split with the PGA Tour ahead of its sponsored tournament set for November, and the brand's apparel has been pulled from the shelves at multiple retailers, among other ramifications."For as much as the ad is sort of silly, it's a terrible ad, I thought, and just in general kind of stupid, you're under a bigger lens now than when you were when you were just on YouTube," Mahan, the former No.
4 player in the world, explained."I think they might have learned that lesson, and they maybe didn't realize who was watching and how people are going to be judging them, but like anything, it was probably an overreaction to losing all of these things."You're with a large partner, Callaway, PGA Tour, you can't do those things now," Mahan later continued.
"I think they may have still lived in their small ecosystem and didn't realize they had entered a large ecosystem, which is awesome through all the hard work you've done, but there are going to be consequences for that.Probably too severe, but that's sort of the world we live in."Hunter Mahan of the United...