Internet Invitational Episode 3: Day 2 Matchups & Format
2026-11-02 · Handicaps
Episode 3 of the 2026 Internet Invitational is out, and it's Day 2: Team Ruffels against Team Bryan, the two teams left from Day 1, 32 players playing for a share of $4 million. Here's how Day 2 works and who played who in the morning.
No spoilers here yet: we'll add the results once you've had time to watch the episode.
Event pageInternet Invitational 2026: every team, every match and the draftHow Day 2 works
Both teams chose to keep their Day 1 sides rather than redraft, so it's Team Ruffels (white) against Team Bryan (green) at Buffalo Ridge, Big Cedar Lodge's Tom Fazio course.
- Morning (Episode 3): eight 2v2 scramble matches, nine holes, one point each. Each team picked its own pairs, and Dave Portnoy and Kevin Kisner matched them up against each other.
- The Kisner shot: each team gets one celebrity shot for the round, where Kevin Kisner takes a shot of their choosing. Once it's used, nobody else on the team can have it.
- The $50,000 9th: every pair plays the 9th, even if their match is over. Win the hole and it's $25,000 each; a tie carries the money over to the next group.
- Afternoon (Episode 4): eight singles matches, worth two points each.
The morning matchups
In the order they teed off, with each player's handicap going into Day 2:
Handicaps: ours, or the event's estimate for the players we don't track. Tap a player for their profile.
The captains went last: Wesley Bryan with Bobby Fairways against Ryan Ruffels with Riggs. The Duke, the last pick of the draft, went off first with Bobby Ray.
How they matched up going in
On paper there wasn't much in it. Team Ruffels had the better captain, Ryan Ruffels at +6.9 against Wesley Bryan's +5.8, and the lower team average, 2.8 to Team Bryan's 3.3. Team Bryan had more depth at the top, with eight players at scratch or better to Ruffels' seven, and came in with the stronger Day 1: 10½ points and 12 players unbeaten, against Team Ruffels' 8 points and a sudden-death win.
Our model made Team Bryan slight favourites, 56% to 44%.
What's next
The results from the morning go up here and on the event page once you've had time to watch. The afternoon singles are in Episode 4 on Thursday 5 November, and the final episode is on Thursday 12 November.
Event pageInternet Invitational 2026: every team, every match and the draft