Best Golf YouTube Channels: Who to Watch for What

The biggest golf channel on YouTube belongs to a former PGA coach, and his most watched video is about cheating with illegal equipment. The second biggest belongs to a major champion whose top upload has 18 million views and barely counts as golf instruction. That gap tells you most of what you need to know about this corner of the internet: the audience did not come for lessons, and the channels that pretend otherwise are a smaller slice than the subscriber charts suggest. Below are the channels actually worth your time in October 2026, sorted by what you want out of them rather than by follower count.

The Biggest Golf YouTube Channels Right Now

Every figure below was read directly from each channel's own page in October 2026. Subscriber counts move, so treat these as a snapshot rather than a scoreboard.

Best for Actually Fixing Your Swing

Instruction is the smallest and least glamorous category on golf YouTube, and it is the one most people need. These four all coach for a living, which already separates them from the bulk of what the algorithm will put in front of you.

• Danny Maude. 1.74M subscribers across 494 videos, which is a remarkably low upload count for that audience. Calm, slow and aimed squarely at mid handicappers who are trying to stop a slice rather than add 15 yards. Start here if you have never watched golf instruction before.
• Me and My Golf. Andy Proudman and Piers Ward, 1.11M subscribers and 2.3K videos going back more than a decade. They coach Aaron Rai, a PGA Tour winner, which is a meaningful credential in a field where almost nobody has one. Their strength is structured programs rather than one-off tips.
• Chris Ryan Golf. 518K subscribers, 2.1K videos, and the most useful format in the category: lessons filmed with actual students rather than demonstrations on a perfect lie. Watching someone your handicap get fixed in real time is worth more than watching a pro describe a feeling.
• Mark Crossfield. 505K subscribers and 6.6K videos, by some distance the deepest archive on this list. He has been doing this since before golf YouTube was a category, and his instruction is unromantic in a way that ages well.

Best for Buddy Golf and Pure Entertainment

This is where the audience actually is. These channels are not trying to teach you anything, and the good ones are honest about that.

• Good Good. 2.16M subscribers, now a genuine production company rather than a group of friends with a camera. Team match play, self-invented majors and a current run of 50 states in 50 days with daily uploads. Their biggest video, an invented major filmed in the UK, has 11 million views.
• Bob Does Sports. 1.53M subscribers and the funniest channel in golf by a comfortable margin. Bobby Fairways, Fat Perez and Joey Coldcuts have built the whole thing on forfeits, drinking games and escalating stakes. "48 Golfers Compete For One Million Dollars" has 9.1 million views and the golf is almost incidental to it.
• GM Golf. Garrett Clark co-founded Good Good and still runs his own channel at 1.47M subscribers and roughly a thousand videos. Mostly 1v1 money matches and scoring challenges, lighter production than the group stuff.
• Fore Play Golf. 657K subscribers and an enormous 5K video library, operating under Barstool and explicitly pitched at the common golfer. Their Internet Invitational series is the best entry point.
• Micah Morris. 544K subscribers. Another Good Good alum, now doing head-to-head stroke play against other creators and former tour players. Straightforward, competitive, not much filler.

If you have watched any of these for more than about twenty minutes, you have noticed that the apparel got loud somewhere around 2021 and never went back. Creator golf is most of the reason the floral print stopped being a novelty, which is as good an excuse as any to look at some fun golf polos instead of another grey quarter zip.

Best for Watching Genuinely Good Golf

Three of these channels will show you shots you cannot hit, played by people who could make a living at it.

• Grant Horvat Golf. 1.83M subscribers from only 357 videos, which is the best views-per-upload ratio in golf YouTube. He left Good Good to go solo and now plays celebrities and tour professionals in high-production matches. "Can I Beat Scottie Scheffler if I Start 5 Under Par?" has 8 million views.
• Bryson DeChambeau. 3M subscribers from 325 videos, which is what happens when an active major champion commits to a single repeatable format. The "Can I Break 50 With" scrambles are the whole channel, and the one with Donald Trump has 18 million views, the largest number on this entire list.
• Luke Kwon Golf. 445K subscribers, 336 videos. A former touring professional with wins in Asia, now making the most cinematic travel golf on the platform. Watch this one for the courses as much as the scores.

Best for Gear and Equipment Testing

Equipment content is where golf YouTube is least trustworthy, because almost every channel of any size has some relationship with the manufacturers it tests. Two names have held up anyway.

Rick Shiels Golf is the biggest channel in golf at 3.09M subscribers and 2.6K videos, and the club review format he popularised is now the industry standard. He also has the single most honest title in golf YouTube history, since the most watched video on the biggest golf channel on earth is about playing with illegal clubs and a non-conforming ball, at 8.5 million views.

Mark Crossfield is the other one, and his value is that he was testing clubs sceptically before there was any money in it. If you want a second opinion on a driver, those two together will get you closer than any single review.

Best for Course Vlogs and Travel

Peter Finch Golf sits at 845K subscribers and 1.7K videos, and he is the rare creator who went and tested himself in real competition rather than only against other YouTubers. The channel is course vlogs, challenges and a documented run at ranking events, and the honesty about where his game actually stands is the appeal.

For course-first viewing, Luke Kwon Golf covers the cinematic end and Good Good covers the big-name venues. Between them you will see more golf courses in a month than most members see in a decade, which is its own argument for keeping a bag packed.

The Problem With Learning Golf From YouTube

Every list of golf channels stops at the recommendations. This is the part that matters more, because the way the platform works is actively hostile to how golf improvement works.

• The algorithm rewards novelty, and golf rewards repetition. A channel cannot post the same drill every week and survive, so it posts a new one. You need the same drill every week. Those two incentives point in opposite directions, and the channel is not going to be the one that changes.
• No video knows what your actual fault is. A slice has at least four distinct causes, and the fix for one makes the others worse. A coach watching you for ninety seconds can tell which you have. A thumbnail cannot, and if you work through five videos aimed at five different causes, you will end up somewhere worse than where you started.
• Tip-hopping is the single most common way golfers get worse. Two swing thoughts from two coaches in the same week is not twice the progress, it is a swing with no plan. Pick one voice and stay with them for a season.
• Entertainment channels are not instruction, and the best ones say so. Watching a scratch player hit a 7 iron does not transfer. The format is competitive golf as a sport to watch, and it is excellent at that. It is just not a lesson.
• Most of your strokes are not in the swing. Course management, putting from inside 10 feet and not compounding one bad shot with another are worth more than any driver change, and they are the least watched content on the platform because they are boring to film.

How to Use Golf YouTube Without Wrecking Your Swing

1. Pick one instruction channel and stay with it. One coach, one system, one season. Danny Maude if you want it simple, Me and My Golf if you want a program, Chris Ryan if you learn better watching someone else get fixed.
2. Separate the two libraries. Keep your instruction viewing and your entertainment viewing apart in your own head. Good Good and Bob Does Sports are not failing at teaching you, they are succeeding at something else.
3. Take exactly one thing to the range. Not three. Write it on the glove if you have to.
4. Film your own swing. The cheapest upgrade available. Most of what people get wrong from YouTube comes from thinking they are doing the thing the video said, when a phone propped on a bag would prove otherwise in ten seconds.
5. Get one real lesson a year anyway. A coach diagnoses, which is the one thing no video can do. Use YouTube to practise what they told you, not to decide what is wrong.

Used that way, the platform is the best free golf resource that has ever existed. Used the other way, it is a very entertaining method of staying a 17 forever. If you are working on the scoring end of your game, start with the best golf tips to help you improve your game, and if you are newer to all of it, golf tips for beginners covers the ground these channels tend to skip.

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