Jimmy Fallon Previews His Upcoming Golf Match Against DJ Khalid | 9/11/24

okay and you know you get to be 50 you start playing a little more golf maybe you're not doing as much work you maybe you want to slow down a little bit now you're out there you know with this grudge match with DJ khed how'd this come about I just thought I follow DJ khed on on all the socials and the the the Instagrams and stuff and so I'm looking at he keeps posting these photos of him playing golf and he look like he'd be fun to play with he also look like someone I could beat how and I'm not that good yeah how you play I mean I'm East Coast so I'd say probably I'm not kidding five to 10 times a year it looks like he plays a whole lot more than that Jimmy yeah he I think he lives on a golf course did you think about putting money up other than somebody gets a a a nice cardigan like make it interesting where as as Tiger Woods once said to me when I said I'd like to play in golf what are we playing for he said whatever makes you nervous oh my God gosh can I tell you though how nervous I actually did get because so it's a obviously I'm doing this to to be fun and to make a funny thing and but we had a real PJ official it's we play Four holes we're at uh in Lake Tahoe so uh we're we're after the the C we had the cameras stay uh after the American Century Championship we asked NBC to do us a favor this whole thing came about in like two weeks but you get you get up to the the the 17th Hol it's a par three and there's 5,000 people screaming and then when you're about to swing they're quiet and it's the most nerve-wracking thing I've ever done in my life I mean I'm a comedian I don't do that I felt like an athlete I'm like oh my gosh this is the pressure man uh and so when you see the first shot it's it's it's I I don't want to spoiler it but it's something so ridiculous it feels like something you'd see in a movie well like as a comedian the last thing you want to hear is silence like you right completely I was running around trying to Hype everyone up you know you know what funny we were talking to I I I sent DJ khed a text and I said hey dude you just look like you'd be fun to play with maybe we could I could challenge you on the show and we'll do something he goes yeah maybe I'd be down with I just got to check my schedule and then I just challenged him on the show for real and I I said the winner will get instead of a green Blazer like the Master's Blazer gets a red cardigan sweater okay and we we really hype it up and uh and that'll be the that'll be the gift that the winner gets so I challenged him on the show uh live and the next day he happened to be in New York and he came on the show and accepted and then we called him be see me like well how could we do this and they're like you can't you can't just air a an 18 hole match can you play I go not really I mean I'd say I'm double bogey golf you know I don't know if you want he goes no one wants to watch that for five hours it's boring so I go so let's think of another way to do it so it's four holes uh there's a uh it's a breakfast ball there's one Mulligan and it's it's kind of it's silly but we play by the rules and it's it it's actually fascinating television I loved it is there drinking involved not for me there wasn't but for that crowd in Tahoe oh yeah oh my goodness dude I was like Dan I was like I gotta get out of here dude it was really maybe I would say five to 10 thousand people I'll go nuts you can see coming up Friday uh so this Friday it'll be 11 35 Eastern so normally when you watch The Tonight Show with Jimmy uh you'll be able to see the Four Hole match I think I think if you are a sports bar you should have a fullon raging party this Friday night uh at your bar and if you wear a cardigan into the bar you get a drink special get one from your grandma get whatever you can get a cigan sweater go in and go yeah Jimmy said that there'll be a drink special tonight if I wore a cardigan uh it's because it's when are you gonna see a live uh an unaired sporting event at you know Friday night this Friday at 11:30 at night that's perfect bar time

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