Riggs plays his No. 1 hater in $10,000 money match

The H8er series has a simple premise. Somebody spends years trashing Riggs online, Riggs invites them to put money on it, and the two go settle it on a golf course. This time Barstool is billing the opponent as the top Riggs hater on the whole internet, and there's $10,000 on the match. The episode dropped Tuesday afternoon, Chevrolet is the presenting sponsor, and it's already up on the Fore Play YouTube channel as 'Riggs Faces His Biggest Hater Yet For $10,000!'

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Riggs faces off with the No.1 Riggs hater on the entire internet in a $10,000 money match. Presented by @chevrolet #ad

Nobody stumbled into this one. On Fore Play Episode 899 on 2026-09-22, Riggs said the guy had spent a couple of years shitposting him and the rest of the crew, and that they went back and forth for about a month on whether the match should even happen. What got him was the switch. Riggs said the hater runs a pretty big Instagram account, but on the phone calls setting the match up he talked like a totally normal person, grateful and looking forward to it, and then he'd go back online and keep posting. Riggs said that's how the whole hater series has gone, and this guy was on another level.

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“It never ceases to amaze me how different these people are in real life compared to keyboards.” – Riggs

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On the pod, Riggs also said he told the guy in the video's intro how he'd play it. He wasn't going to curse out his opponent after every shot of a singles match. Hit a good one and Riggs would probably say great shot. Hit a bad one and he might take a shot at you here and there. According to Fore Play, the hater couldn't hold onto his online act once he was standing next to Riggs on a tee box.

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Riggs’ biggest hater yet did NOT keep the same energy in person that he had behind the keyboard 💀 @drinksuncruiser

The course had some teeth of its own. Southern Pines Golf Club opened in 1906 and is a Donald Ross design, sitting in the Sandhills about 10 minutes from Pinehurst by Riggs' count. On the pod, Riggs warned that Ross greens can eat anybody's lunch no matter how long or short the course is. The hater had never played it, so the crew gave him a full practice round the day before the match.

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“We set him up with the practice round the day before since he hadn't been there before.” – Riggs

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That removes the obvious excuse. He got a full lap on the course to learn the greens, perfect weather by Riggs' account, and a $10,000 match against the guy he's been ripping online for years. Stakes in the series move around. An earlier hater episode, 'The $25,000 Grudge Match' against Your Friend Kyle, was played for more than twice as much. Still, this is the opponent Barstool is calling the biggest hater yet. We're not spoiling the result here. Fore Play has the full match up now, so go watch it and see how the hater did once he had to back up his posts on the course.