Malosi Togisala makes huge admission about the Internet Invitational … but it’s not what you might think

While the Internet Invitational was a smash-hit and turned guys like Brad Dalke, Frankie ‘Front-Nine’ Borrelli and The Duke into household names, a few players left million-dollar YouTube Masters with big question marks. There was Luke Kwon, who overslept his tee time on the tournament’s opening day, Paige Spiranac, who broke down in tears when accused of attempting to improve a lie and, of course, Mo Togisala, who became the subject of golf’s latest Zapruder film when he was accused of using the slope on his rangefinder during the final match.

Spiranac got out ahead of her controversy, posting a tearful message about the abuse she had received in the wake of the series’ first two episodes (to be clear, she had done NOTHING wrong at that point). Kwon, meanwhile, received a ringing endorsement from fellow YouTubers (and friends) George Bryan and Luke Tooms, who implied the situation had been dramatized for entertainment. But we hadn’t heard much Togisala until Monday, when the Good Good Golf personality joined the brand’s podcast to make a big admission. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite the one fans were hoping for.

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There you have it … kind of … sort of. According to Togisala, he did have the slope on … but only for the first hole of the tournament. His group had the very first tee time of the Internet Invitational and Togisala explained they didn’t get word about the “no slope” rule until they were walking off the opening green. But what about that now Internet-infamous moment in the final round, when Togisala was seen messing with his rangefinder before handing it over for inspection?

“I’ll die on this hill,” he reiterated. “The slope was off.”

Togisala has now delivered a “hand of a God” and an “I’ll die on this hill” during two major opportunities to come clean, so we have to consider the possibility that he is telling the truth. In fact, in golf, assuming someone is telling the truth should be our default setting, not the other way around. Unfortunately, the Internet doesn’t work that way and many fans remained very skeptical after Togisala's explanation.

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Pop psychology aside, it’s probably time to move on from this. After all, even if Togisala lied, the ball didn’t, as Borrelli bladed it into the drink on the final hole to hand the Internet Invitational to Brad Dalke, Francis Ellis and Cody “Beef” Franke. That’s the only part of this we’ll ever be 100% sure actually happened, and for now, that will have to be enough.