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Morgan Wallen Gets The Better Of Tom Brady In 9-Hole Golf Challenge: “I Got My A** Kicked”
YouTube golf content has cracked into the country music realm.
Recently, the undisputed GOAT of NFL quarterbacking asked the biggest name in country music to play a little 9-hole golf match in Tennessee. Tom Brady brought his camera and crew along to make it a part of this “Last Week with Tom Brady” vlog series… and I’ve got to say, I didn’t mind this episode.
The others where he’s frolicking along in the sun on fancy boats? I’ll pass. But getting to see Tom Brady and Morgan Wallen play at the beautiful Troubadour Golf & Field Club in College Grove, Tennessee? I’m here for it. Brady and his crew were all set up for the arrival of the country music singer, and once Wallen got there, Tom asked him how things were and if he’d been busy.
Morgan responded by saying:
“I’ve been working hard and chasing turkeys. That’s about it. I ain’t been playing no golf.”
Now I don’t want to get to in-depth with this, but I think that was a little bit of sandbaggery (acting like you won’t be good right before you are really good) by Morgan Wallen. Because he proceeded to rip driver on a lot of holes out on the course, while Tom played more conservatively off the tee with what looked to be a driving iron.
Amidst the competition, Tom was able to ask Wallen questions about his career, like if he had always loved music. As they rode around in the golf cart from shot to shot, the “I’m The Problem” singer shared this answer:
“From the beginning. I started singing in church when I was three years old. My dad was a pastor, and my mom just recognized early on that I had a love for it. So she had me singing when I was three, then when I was five, I wanted a violin for Christmas and then I started learning it. Hell, I was offered a southern gospel record contract when I was seven-years-old.”
Wallen later credited his mom with shooting down that deal because she wanted him to be a kid and have a normal life. So that’s what he did, and he focused on baseball. From the looks of his golf swing, it appears the country superstar played a little golf in his younger days as well. I say that because during the 9 hole match, Morgan Wallen got the best of Tom Brady (Wallen credited his mental break from recently turkey hunting giving him the advantage)
Tom accepted defeat (I wouldn’t say graciously), which then led to the pair throwing the football around out on the course. If that portion of the video looks familiar, that’s because the picture from that of the two tossing the pigskin went viral ahead of the ACM Awards. It does appear that Wallen was out on the links with Brady instead of attending the 2025 ACMs.
Don’t think he would have attended anyways though.
The video ends with Brady giving Wallen a signed jersey, and the country music star returning the favor with a specialized guitar that was themed for Morgan’s I’m The Problem album and tour. Tom said he didn’t know a thing about guitars, and that prompted Wallen to share a little bit more about his creative process:
“Usually we won’t even start a song unless we have the full concept and the payoff hook done at the beginning. Then we’ll start at the first verse to write towards that hook. Every once in a while, there’s a couple of songs in this album where I had an idea and I was like, ‘I don’t know what the song is gonna be called. I don’t know anything other than I have this idea.’
So we started from the top with no hook. Wrote first verse, chorus all the way down until we found the hook. So we started with there was a day Jack and Jim didn’t know me from Adam, so you just get all of those Garden of Eden type ideas and you just keep going.”
All in all, it was a quick look (maybe a little too quick, I wouldn’t have been upset if it was longer) at Morgan Wallen’s golf game and musical process. And it was all captured on… I can’t believe I’m saying this… Tom Brady’s vlog series.
Stay tuned for the rematch… Tom mentioned that he got a** kicked multiple times and he won’t let that lie for long.
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