Most weeks, the only time you hear my voice is by accident.
I'm usually focused on batteries, memory cards, timelines, and making sure a video actually goes live.
Guys, it’s Carhny.
Getting to Bryan Bros was not planned. It involved a dumpster golf club, an iPad livestream, buying a plane ticket before I knew how to use a camera, and a lot of late nights figuring things out. This Bryan Brief is a look at what happens between the tee shot and the upload. The pressure, the details I obsess over, and what we are trying to level up next. Let’s get into it. 🎥⛳️ PS. Do not skip Pelli’s Tip of the Week below. Finding your athletic setup properly makes everything else easier. |
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⛳ How It Started
I didn't grow up planning to work in YouTube golf (who did!?).
In college at Colorado State, I was on the Track and Field team. One summer, a golf club found in a dumpster somehow turned into us playing intramural golf. That was the starting point.
From there, YouTube golf took over. I found Good Good, then Bryan Bros, and the rest slowly snowballed. |
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🎥 Saying Yes
The first real break came from a livestream.
Wesley was an alternate at the American Express, and George could not make it out. I volunteered to help run the stream and ended up handling Bryan Bros livestreams on an iPad.
Not long after, they mentioned filming a video with George caddying for Wesley. I texted and said I would buy a plane ticket and come help. I had never touched a camera before. He still said yes 🤯 |
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🌴 Puerto Rico
I bought the ticket and flew to Puerto Rico having never used a camera.
George showed me the basics, and I had about nine holes to get comfortable before filming started.
Wesley went on to finish solo sixth. Somehow, the footage worked and the videos turned out better than I expected. When I got home, I remember thinking that week would be hard to beat. |
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📸 Follow the Journey
If you wanna follow more of my journey behind the camera, feel free to do so
@carhny.
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📞 From Moment to Momentum
A few weeks later, George called me out of the blue.
He asked if I could come help film in South Carolina for a couple of weeks. I said yes and figured out the rest later. So I was like… 
Those two weeks flew by. Then I got invited back again. And again. At some point, it stopped feeling like a lucky break and started feeling like something real.
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🎯 All In
After graduation, I took a remote software engineering job so I could keep traveling and filming. It was the only way to stay close to what was building.
Around that time, we talked about me becoming a one stop shop for production. Filming, editing, and helping shape how the channel looked and felt. In September 2023, I moved to South Carolina and went all in. By March 2024, I was editing all of the main Bryan Bros channel content. There was no halfway version anymore. |
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🗓️ A Week in the Life
There are two types of weeks for me. Filming weeks and non filming weeks.
Filming weeks mean travel, long days, and editing wherever I can. Non filming weeks are about getting ahead and catching up in the edit.
When I'm not on the road, most days are early starts, late finishes, and a lot of time behind a laptop. |
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⭐ Proudest Moment
To be honest, my proudest moment is not really a Carhny moment. It is a true Bryan Bros moment. Watching George make the cut at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, knowing how much pressure he was under and how much work had gone into getting there, was unreal. Walking the course and seeing it all come together was one of those moments where you stop thinking about cameras, edits, or videos, and just feel proud to be there for it.
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👀 What Fans Don’t See
The biggest thing people underestimate is how long everything takes, and how much pressure sits behind every upload.
Tracers, graphics, music, and supporting animations all add up quickly. What looks simple on screen can take hours in post production, especially when deadlines are tight and people are waiting. I also spend an unreasonable amount of time on thumbnails. Small tweaks that almost nobody notices, but that matter a lot when a video goes live. When a video is late, it is never for lack of effort. There are some very stressed people behind the scenes trying to get it right. We are still pushing quality forward with better cameras, cleaner colour matching, and small upgrades that make everything feel more seamless. |
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☕ One Last Thing
If I ever launched a Carhny product, it would be coffee.
George and I are both big coffee nerds. I am deep into the details, extraction, beans, and brew methods. Shoutout Lance Hedrick. Carhny Does Coffee. I think it would be electric. |
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Tip of the Week → Find your athletic setup 🏌️
Athletic setup starts with balance
Pelli explains how to find the best athletic setup for your body using a simple balance drill. Tap the image above to watch the full tip. |
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That’s it for this week’s Bryan Brief.
Thanks for letting me step behind the keyboard for a bit. I usually live behind the camera, so getting to share some of this with you all was pretty special. 💬 Reply to this email with a behind the scenes question you have about YouTube golf or something you have always wondered about our process. I will try to answer a few in a future Bryan Brief.
Carhny
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