A winner always stands out amidst the commotion. And that winner is Brad Dalke. The $1 million Internet Invitational went viral for all the wrong reasons, or maybe the right reasons. It was chaotic, controversial, and emotional all at once. Yet, for Dalke, none of these reached his ears. Calling himself the “A Player,” the winner of the Barstool event, deafened the surrounding noise. Whatever was Paige Spiranac‘s drama, he simply “didn’t care.”

“We’ve all played YouTube golf. It was a normal YouTube video. Who cares, you know? If it were a 3v3 alternate shot on Good, it’s like whatever. Like it’s a YouTube video. It’s not that big of a deal,” Dalke narrated to Garret Clark on Good Good Podcast. Dalke’s stand pretty much echoes what Luke Kwon said after his own controversy.

The drama (or dramas), which you might already be aware of, started from the ninth hole. For those who don’t know, Spiranac was accused of improving her team’s lie by mowing down grass in front of the ball. According to Dalke, Peter Finch informed him of this infraction only after the hole. By that time, Team Dalke had already won that hole. That basically was his goal. To win.

“I kind of just told myself, ‘I am not getting caught up in this,'” Dalke shared. “I’m the A player of this team. If I start playing badly…it’s going to be a tough last eight holes. So, I kind of told myself, ‘I’m going to lock in. I don’t care about the drama.'”

Keeping the same mindset, Dalke advised Francis Ellis, his teammate, not to escalate the situation. Instead, he told him to keep an eye on the entire situation, and to check if the players go in the weeds again. Ellis initially agreed, which might come as a surprise because the comedian cum YouTuber was already in a rift with Spiranac. Throughout the event, their rivalry occupied the Internet’s lore. And maybe that’s why the pettiness overcame him.

When the match was tied, and a potential penalty hole was on the table, Ellis crossed over to Spiranac and confronted her. Like a domino effect, the moment exploded, and she broke down in tears. As per Sprianac, she didn’t know she was violating Rule 8.1.

“This is for a million dollars, and Paige’s played D1 golf. She played competitive golf,” Dalke told Clark, admitting that he had not bought into Paige Spiranac’s emotional story. “I would like to think she would know that you’re not allowed to do that, but I don’t know. Maybe she didn’t.”

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As we said, the domino effect spread its ripple forward. On the 10th hole came the

Melosi “Mo” Togisala drama. Mo was accused of using the forbidden slope function on his rangefinder. The suspicion snowballed so fast that more than a dozen people were found reviewing the footage frame by frame. “20 people were gathered around the car,” shared Dalke to Clark’s surprise.

Yet, his focus was firm. “I just genuinely in the moment did not care…just wanted to play golf the best I could. I just did not want to get caught in the drama.”

“That’s the definition of locked in,” Clark replied in disbelief. While cameras, accusations, and suspicions moved around him, Dalke faced a putt that cost his team the hole. In the end, he made it. Part reason he could do it was because Francis Ellis had taken the role of the rule enforcer. “I kind of had him,” admitted Dalke.

His team eventually secured the million dollars after

Frankie Borrelli‘s final-hole mis-hit into the water. Looking back, Dalke can only be surprised at the entire ordeal. “It’s crazy how it was like back to back…It literally went straight from the Paige…to Mo.”

Having said that, did the two people in question say anything about the ordeal?

The emotional aftermath of the controversial video

The controversy will take some time to die down. Like any viral moment, the YouTube world will likely talk about the incidents for a long time. But did the people who caused the stir speak about it yet? Luke Kwon surely did. What about the two alleged “rule-breakers”? Well, not exactly.

Of course, the controversy hit Paige Spiranac the hardest, as it always does. When she was caught, she was quite adamant about her defense: “I wasn’t trying to cheat.” Anyway, she did come up on the Internet to speak about the hate. But for a different case altogether. As magnetic as she is, Spiranac did take all the controversial pieces home.

After passing

an offhand comment on Nadeshot in episode 3, she was bombarded with rather irrational hate. Talking about them, she said, “This hate for some reason has just been really hitting home for me…I’m just not effortlessly liked.” Knowing the Internet, the hate would have only gotten worse now.

Mo Togisala, too, defended himself when he was called out for his alleged cheating on the course. “I promise I didn’t have the slope on,” he told

Dave Portnoy. But later, he did comment, reiterating his earlier stance. Still, the contrast in the hate Paige Spiranac got and then Mo got is jarring.