SPOILER: The Q at Myrtle Beach Delivers a Wild Finish at Pawleys Plantation

The championship round of The Q at Myrtle Beach delivered exactly what it promised: drama.

After a field of eight content creators was trimmed to four, Grant Horvat, Luke Kwon, Micah Morris and Ryan Ruffels were left to battle in an 18-hole shootout at Pawleys Plantation Golf Club

At stake? A sponsor’s exemption into the PGA Tour’s Myrtle Beach Classic.

With “Commissioner” Wesley Bryan presiding over the event, Horvat, the game’s most popular YouTuber, started quickly. He birdied the first four holes, including long makes on Nos. 2 and 3, building a lead over Kwon and Ruffels, a member of the Lads Golf YouTube group.

But nobody runs roughshod over Pawleys Plantation, a Jack Nicklaus design.

Horvat stumbled late on the front nine, making bogeys on 6, 7 and 9, and the quartet turned for home with just two strokes separating them.

Horvat’s lead seemed like it was gone when his tee shot on the famed par-3 13th hit the peninsula green and bounded into the water, but he drained a long, downhill putt to salvage an improbable par.

After a birdie at 15, Horvat stood on the 17th tee with a two-shot lead over Ruffels and Kwon, seemingly in control.

But Pawleys will always test your nerves down the stretch.

Horvat bogeyed the treacherous par 3 17th, while Ruffels made par, and Kwon ejected, making eight after hitting two tee balls into the marsh.

With just one stroke separating them, Ruffels hit a center-cut 3-wood on the 435-yard 18th. Horvat pushed his drive right into a sandy waste area under a tree. Forced to play a running 5-iron, he pulled his approach into a pond, effectively ending the competition.

Ruffels made a routine par to shoot a 1-under par 71, and Horvat made double bogey to finish two strokes back.

Game over. Ryan Ruffels at pawleys Plantation Golf Club