Planet Golf — 04 March 2013 by GW staff and news services
The ‘Boys’ are back; still insane

After an 18 month hiatus, golf’s favorite boy band is reuniting.

“Golf Boys”, a group founded by PGA Tour star Ben Crane, featuring Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan that parodies boy bands, have released their second song, “2.Oh”.

The song was written by the golfers’ friend and popular recording artist, Mat Kearney.  The first Golf Boys video, released in June of 2011, quickly became an Internet sensation and has amassed nearly 6 million views on YouTube.  Aside from Tiger Woods-related videos, it’s the most viewed video on the Internet featuring professional golfers.

An encore video was not originally planned, but fans begged for one relentlessly.

Crane, the unofficial band leader, reached out to Kearney, an avid golfer and friend from his college days in Eugene, OR, to help with the second song.  Kearney set out to write a song that played off of the golfers’ individual style and personality, but also managed to name-drop numerous PGA Tour stars including: Stewart Cink, Aaron Baddeley, Adam Scott, Ricky Barnes, Rory Sabbatini, Kevin Na, Jason Day, Louis Oosthuizen, Bo Van Pelt and Stuart Appleby.

“Ben and I have been friends for a long time,” says Kearney. “He mentioned they might do a new Golf Boys song, so I got off the phone and tried to come up with a hard hitting hip hop track. I thought using golfers’ names as puns would be pretty dang funny. I sat there for hours cracking myself up.  How often do you get to write a rap for someone who’s won the Masters?”

Here it is:

 

 

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