"I’d pay off my parents’ house" - Internet Invitational 2025 champion Beef gets emotional after $1M win

Internet Invitational 2025 champion Beef got emotional upon winning the $1 million prize money after the last episode of the event. The event had six episodes involving 48 golfers in 24 groups.

American professional player Brad Dalke, along with Francis Ellis and Cody “Beef” Franke, won the tournament by defeating Paige Spiranac, Frankie Borelli, and Malosi Togisala. After the event, Beef broke into tears and shared what he would do with the money (via Forbes):

“I think I’d pay off my parents’ house.”

Cody Frankie is the Foreplay Pod head, who often makes golf-related content for his Instagram page. Of late, his Instagram handle flaunts 47.2k followers, and his last post was on October 22, enlightening his followers on how to locate the right pin in a course and decide which is a green light.

Although Beef had a good memory from the Internet Invitational after winning the title, some participants faced a lot of drama, one of them was Paige Spiranac.

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Paige Spiranac has a sudden emotional meltdown amid the Internet Invitational

During the Internet Invitational, Paige Spiranac was called out by a fan using curse words. The fan said that she overvalued herself as compared to others at the Internet Invitational.

Following the hate comment, Spiranac couldn't hold back her tears and shared her struggles on Instagram. She wrote that it had taken a lot of hard work to reach her current position and that she has always struggled to make connections. But finally, when she got a place at the Internet Invitational, she felt included. She said:

“First off, thank you so much for all of the very kind messages, it truly means a lot to me. I don't normally do this, but this hate for some reason just been really hitting home for me. I've struggled socially my entire life. I've struggled in big groups of people, making friends, keeping friends, relating to other people. Reading social cues, saying the right thing at the right time, it's just been really hard for me my entire life…Like it's just hard for me in big groups of people.” “So at the invitation, I was really excited because I felt like I could like fit in in the industry. And like, be there for my team and show up and I was making spreadsheets and I was doing all of this stuff and I was really excited about it. And even when I was there, I was excited about because I felt like I was really like, there for my team. And so it's just been really hard to like, see this reaction to being so unliked and hated,” she added.

Spiranac also appeared at the Creator Classic, which is a three-part event. Spiranac played in the second event, which took place before the Truist Championship, and served as an on-course analyst at both events.

Edited by Riddhiman Sarkar