If you’re unfamiliar with a 17-year old YouTuber named Gabby, I’ll let it slide for the moment.
After all, you’re a serious (well, semi-serious, anyway) person who only watches “respectable” golf YouTubers like Rick Shiels, Peter Finch and Bob Does Sports (I said “semi-serious”…), so why would you know about a teenager whose game is better than yours and who looks more like a fashion influencer than a golfer?
Well, all that’s about to change.
Who is Gabby Golf Girl?
Let’s catch your semi-serious self up to speed here.
Gabby DeGasperis is a teenager, a golfer, a wildly successful YouTube Creator/Instagram personality (nearly 1 million combined subscribers), and the owner of one of the fastest growing channels in all of YouTube.
The West Palm Beach, Florida, resident starts her day with the first tee time of the day at her club, is done with 18 holes in 90 minutes, heads back home, then does school work, then heads back to the course. DeGasperis competes in local South Florida junior tournaments, taking followers on her journey of improving her game, performing trick shots and getting in great shape.
She’s who I dream to be—she’s already got it figured out and isn’t a 40-something dude wishing he’d made better life choices.
She’s creating her own content, looking directly into the camera to talk to people, many of them being young girls who are starting to think that golf is cool. She’s studying analytics to figure out what her next video should be, based on her most successful ones yet. She’s worked with Bob Does Sports and Peter Finch. She already has sponsorship deals with the likes of TaylorMade, Shot Scope, Rapsodo and IMI Living.
She’s my new hero.
And she’s just getting started.
A new classic
If, like me, you’ve not been super familiar with Gabby, this past Creator Classic is sure to have remedied that ignorance.
While she didn’t win (Grant Horvat took it home with a birdie on the iconic 17th at TPC Sawgrass), her “Behind the Scenes” video is by far my favorite “experience” video posted of what it’s truly like to be one of the players of this event.
For those of you who haven’t seen the Creator Classic (2025 TPC Sawgrass version) yet, I’ll give you a brief rundown: 10 content creators were chosen to compete (Kyle Berkshire, Tisha Alyn, Grant Horvat, Roger Steele, Soly of No Laying Up, Fat Perez of Bob Does Sports, Trent Ryan of Fore Play, George and Wesley Bryan of Bryan Bros. and Gabby) where they played holes 10-17 at Sawgrass (in tournament conditions, the day before the Players Championship started).
The top three finishers in eight holes went into a playoff to play the 17th once again. As expected from amateur golfers (for the most part—ahem, we’re looking at you Wesley Bryan), there were some truly terrible shots. But as a whole, the collected group of content creators did a good job of handling the tough course conditions as well as the heightened pressure of having actual fans out on-course.
If you’ve not seen the broadcast, it’s worth a look. While I can’t say there’s a ton of amazing golf, there’s plenty to keep you entertained. Of particular note, I enjoyed watching Berkshire absolutely BOMB several drives into undiscovered terrain, the crowd’s roar at Trent’s epic 17th hole (trust me on this one), and the moment of the entire broadcast: Fat Perez’s INSANE putt on 17 with Dan Rappaport’s “give us a moment, FP” call giving absolute goosebumps.
Head and shoulders above
But through it all, the person I kept coming back to was this petite 17-year old who refused to stop smiling, signing autographs for fans, and ultimately, having fun.
It’s one thing to go out and play a twilight nine with your buddies. It’s another thing, entirely, to get up at the crack of dawn, wrangle your entire family into a van, get to TPC Sawgrass, have interview after interview, sign autographs, warm up, sit down for more interviews, warm up again, try to get a sense of the speed of the greens (here’s a hint: lightning), and then tee off at 4 p.m. in front of a thousand people with IMPOSSIBLY high expectations, only to knock it stiff down the middle on the 10th (their first hole).
Color me impressed.
Honestly, the thing that makes Gabby so incredibly watchable is that, through this entire ordeal (I know “ordeal” sounds like a strong word choice, but think about the above, what that day must have been like, then imagine you’re 17… and imagine how you would handle it), she refused to stop signing autographs, taking pictures, talking with her fans and being incredibly effervescent.
She was genuinely happy to be there, and it showed.
Did she win the Creator Classic? No, she did not. She finished T-6, at +6, four strokes off the score needed to make the playoff.
But that’s not the only definition of “winner” from this broadcast. If you consider the amount of fans she won over with her demeanor, her skill, her attitude on the course, and her absolute joy at being out there? Yeah… she won. She won BIG.
And she’s going to keep on winning for years and years, if we’re lucky.
We dare you not to enjoy
Go take a look at her channel, and I think you’ll agree—the kid’s got something pretty magical. She has some incredible videos with some of the biggest names in YouTube golf (including Peter Finch, Brooke Henderson, Bryan Bros., and more), as well as a ton of other videos featuring D1 golfers, state champs, etc.
What really shines through in every video is just how much fun she’s having. As a dad to a pre-teen girl, it’s a dream to imagine she’d find ANYTHING as much fun as this (it won’t be golf, sadly, as she rolls her eyes out of her head every time I bring it up—but I’ll never give up the dream), and the idea that a kid could be getting better and be this entertaining while doing it is truly something to behold.
I might have some issues with the Creator Classic series as a whole—like why in the world are we not having every one of them mic’d up and hearing the banter? It’s literally the thing they’re best at in the world but instead we are hearing announcers tell us what’s happening? Such a missed opportunity!
But of the complaints I have, featuring a kid like Gabby definitely isn’t one of them.
She’s got some magic, and I can’t recommend her and her channel enough—especially if you have a junior golfer at home.
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