Bryan just admitted something most golf YouTubers would never confess.

Strapped to a polygraph machine during Takomo Golf's lie detector challenge, which was released on February 5, 2026, on YouTube. The former PGA Tour pro faced the question every Golf content creator fears.

"Have you ever hit a shot so bad on camera that you hit another one and cut the bad one in post?" his answer wasn't a clean denial, and that's exactly what makes it fascinating.

Here's what the machine caught him saying. Bryan dropped a bombshell admission during the test. While adamantly defending their content integrity, he revealed one exception that broke their own rules.

Dan, who asked the questions throughout the video, pushed for details about their production methods.

"We have actually never faked any of our videos,” “except one time and it wasn't me," bryan confessed.

"It's because a clip was not running when a putt was made and so the actual match turned out a way that it turned out."

The incident occurred early in their YouTube journey, during a match against Willie Mudball. The camera failure forced an impossible decision. That abandons the authentic result or recreates what genuinely occurred.

"This was very, very in the beginning with Willie Mudball, and so authentically we had to redo the putt until it went in," he explained,” Bryan said during the polygraph test.

George Admits to Redoing Shots in Early Videos for Internet Appeal

George faced a similar question during the lie detector test. He was asked if he ever hit bad shots on purpose to make videos more interesting.

He admitted that in the early days of their YouTube channel, he sometimes re-shot shots to make the videos look better online. “Maybe like redo a whole or redo a shot because I thought, okay, this is what the internet needed to see. Hit another shot to make it better. I will do that." 

George clearly said this only happened in the beginning, not now. As their channel grew, they chose to be more real. They realized viewers liked seeing honest mistakes more than staged shots.

Once they stopped chasing perfect shots, their fanbase grew fast. Now they show every bad swing, missed chip, and three-putt. That honesty is what separates them from other golf creators who still over-edit their videos.

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Written by

Sneha Abraham

Edited by

Oajaswini Prabhu