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IrelandRick Shiels relives his Internet Invitational playoff pressure
Ben Wright takes the hosting chair for a debrief covering the draft, an alternate-shot misfire and a daunting wedge shot.
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Rick Shiels Talks Internet Invitational 2026
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- 5:25The format drafts 64 players into four teams, bringing golfers with widely different handicaps into the same competition.
- 7:37Players packed all four team colours before the draft; Rick explains why he hoped to avoid red.
- 26:40Pete Finch selected Rick 11th overall, but their squad missed out on Seb.
- 34:37Crew member Ed explains the backstage production setup, equipment and camera assignments.
- 42:33Rick attributes alternate-shot difficulties to poor drives after a delay and getting the playing order wrong.
- 54:00The playoff recap reaches Rick's high-pressure 100-yard approach with a 58-degree wedge.
Rick takes the guest seat. "Today, I'm a guest on my own podcast," Shiels says, handing Ben Wright the questions for an Internet Invitational debrief that has drawn roughly 50,000 views in its first 16 hours.
"Rick Shiels Talks Internet Invitational 2026" is running well ahead of the Golf Show's usual opening pace. The comments have already passed four times a normal full first day's total, with viewers asking for more behind-the-scenes stories and a series built around Rick giving The Duke golf lessons.
The appeal here is the gap between arriving confident and finding yourself with a wedge shot you desperately don't want to mishit. Rick says he felt good about his game before filming at Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri in August. Even packing had a complication: everyone needed clothing in each possible team colour before the draft. Red was the one he hoped to avoid because he owned so little of it. He landed on Team Blue.
His account follows a comfortable opening match alongside Joey Cold Cuts into a much less comfortable alternate-shot outing with Martin Borgmeier. Rick identifies their playing order as a mistake, then describes poor drives after a lengthy delay.
By the sudden-death playoff, the task has narrowed to a short approach with his lob wedge, with all the pressure that a seemingly manageable shot can carry. Wright's questions leave room for the less visible business around the golf, too: draft decisions, camera assignments and the considerable logistics of bringing a field of creators together.
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Fixing the Duke swing needs to be a Rick YouTube series
@jpmd2869See it on YouTubeLove hearing the behind the scenes of this event. I’d pay a lot of money to be a spectator
@herfjones3See it on YouTubeRick Shiels giving The Duke a golf lesson was not something I had on the bingo card for this year 🤣🤣
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I really appreciate how detailed Rick is during these recaps. The type of content I need after the invitational
@thisaccount6539See it on YouTubeRick, came over after seeing you in Internet Invitational. You are all class! Thanks for being you
@DjohnnyRebelSee it on YouTubeThis was incredible insight/behind the scenes/recap from Rick. Way more in depth than anything else I've seen. Thanks for sharing Rick and can't wait to keep watching!
@CollectingAmericasPastimeSee it on YouTubeThank you Rick and Ben, What a great interview! That sounded like an experience of a lifetime.😄 I can't wait until the Final comes out! 😄
@anthonyanglim7147See it on YouTubeSome of My favorite content that rick makes is retelling his adventures at all these different events and courses and so on. He just has a way with words that’s really awesome to listen to.
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Which team colour did Rick land on at the Internet Invitational?
Rick explains that he was drafted onto Team Blue after packing clothing in all four possible colours.