LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – A social media golf influencer is touring the nation on the lookout for the most effective greens and essentially the most followers.
Malosi Togisala goes shot-for-shot on the inexperienced and on the display.
Togisala is from Utah, however he has been enjoying from the information proper right here in Lubbock over the previous couple of weeks, assembly folks and making waves on his social media accounts.
Togisala has gone from zero followers to just about 40,000 on Instagram with one other 12,000 on TikTok since Oct. 2022.
“It’s simply loopy how a lot West Texas has grown my social media,” Togisala mentioned. “Not lots of people are doing like this. Like Instagram golf, social media golf, I assume you possibly can say. So, it’s tremendous enjoyable for me to be out right here doing it.”
Togisala is visiting cities throughout the state, together with Amarillo, Plainview, Seminole, Dallas and San Antonio, however he nonetheless has a couple of to mark off the listing.
“I must get all the way down to, like, Midland and Odessa,” Togisala mentioned. “So far as Lubbock, I’ve performed each golf course right here on the town.”
It’s not simply the green he has discovered is honest alongside the way in which. He acknowledged the West Texas hospitality has been as much as par throughout his journey.
“I’ve met lots of people, like locals right here in Lubbock who’ve been so supportive and loving in the direction of me,” Togisala mentioned. “It’s like open arms to say ‘hey, come golf with us.’”
Even together with his newfound reputation on-line, it’s nonetheless a aspect job for Togisala proper now, one thing he hopes will change within the close to future.
“It’s simply superb simply to do it,” Togisala mentioned. “Hopefully it does grow to be a full-time gig. I do know that after I get extra into the YouTube area, hopefully if I maintain being constant, one thing might occur. You by no means know.”
Till then, Togisala is simply having fun with the experience.
“For proper now, I’m simply I’m Huge Moe you understand,” Togisala mentioned. “I simply wish to have enjoyable with it. Exhibit the place I’m at, and when that day comes, it would come, and I’m extra so simply excited for this journey half. Everybody all the time appears to be like on the outcomes, like the top aim, it’s the journey that makes you who you’re.”
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