Jake Adams launched his YouTube channel last month with a simple premise: find someone, set the stakes, play for real money. Thirty days later, he's the fastest-growing channel in IGT's Tier 6 bracket by a wide margin.
Jake is well known in the YouTube golf space for his work with Country Club Adjacent, one of the more recognizable brands in the game. This spring, he launched his own channel alongside it. The concept he landed on is as simple as it gets: high-stakes golf matches for real money. Action on every hole. Real stakes. Every video.
Right out of the gate, he didn't start small. His first upload was a $10,000 money match against poker legend Daniel Negreanu — not a golf creator, not a tour pro, a World Poker Hall of Famer who happens to play golf. That's an attention-grabbing opener for a channel with 418 subscribers.
He's been playing for real money ever since. Every video follows the same format — find an opponent, set the stakes, film it. Action on every hole, real money on every match. It's the perfect series for the common golf gambler.
The GrowthThe subscriber curve tells the story better than anything else. Starting modest, then compounded fast.
| Apr 28 | 459 |
| +921 subscribers | |
| May 18 | 1,380 |
| +1,320 subscribers | |
| May 28 | 2,700 |
The second acceleration — May 18 to May 28 — lines up directly with the Bob Does Sports collab. That video dropped when Jake had under 1,500 subscribers. It did 67K views. He added 1,320 subscribers in the 10 days after.
Bob Does Sports is one of the most-watched channels in the IGT field. For a channel with under 1,500 subscribers, that's a significant door to get through.
What The Data SaysIGT tracks 38 creators in the Tier 6 bracket — channels under 10K subscribers. Over the Apr 28 – May 28 window, the average subscriber growth across that group was +16%. Jake put up +488%. He also ranked #1 in reach and #1 in subscriber growth across the full 57-creator IGT field in Week 2 — beating out channels with 10x, 50x, even 100x his subscriber count.
Five videos. 30 days. 169K total views. The opponents so far — Daniel Negreanu, The Jet (BDS), Chazzy, Short Game King, The Duke — suggest the collab pipeline isn't slowing down anytime soon.
IGT tracks 130+ YouTube golf creators. All growth and view data sourced from public YouTube metrics. Growth window: Apr 28 – May 28, 2026. T6 average growth calculated across 38 creators in the under-10K subscriber bracket over the same window.