On IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, Katt Williams talks about coming to golf late, why he likes the game, and what he says when someone asks for his handicap. The episode was uploaded December 3, 2025. This article stays with the golf conversation in the Short.
Clip: Viral Podcast Shorts YouTube Short from the full source linked below.
Williams's real name is Micah Sierra Williams, as set out in his RealNameOf biography. That birth name is not mentioned in the Short. It is here only to identify who is speaking. The clip is a different story from the one he has told about getting into his first comedy contest at 16. Here he is talking about a sport he says he did not grow up playing.
"It's not a thing"
A host asks, "when did the love affair with golf start for you?" Williams answers, "it was it was immediate."
The next question is whether he grew up golfing. He says, "Cuz black we don't we don't grow up well. It's not a thing." A host agrees: "No, it's not. It's not a thing."
He starts a thought, "We lived on a golf," and then puts it more clearly: "We lived in a neighborhood with a golf course." They still did not play. "We black people. We just drove right past it."
The least economical sport
He has a theory about why the game never took hold that way. He calls it probably the least economical sport. Other games, as he tells it, can be cheaper to get into. "I'm saying you only need one ball and 39 guys can play." Golf, he says, is not that way.
He came to it later. "I was grown when I got introduced to golf," he says, "but it is um I've really been able to grow with my own personal game and I like everything about it. There are no negatives or drawbacks."
"I'm unhandicapped"
Then comes the handicap question. "What's your handicap?" a host asks.
"I'm unhandicapped," Williams says.
A host tries to follow that. "What does that mean? What does that mean now? I I don't even understand that." His explanation is short: "Just a healthy man."
Michelle Obama, one of the hosts, then asks whether he is a scratch golfer, adding that she knows "all these terms from my husband." Auto-captions in the clip do not label the speakers; that line about her husband is what identifies her in the exchange.
Williams answers, "Rarely. I have eczema. So I I am a scratch golfer."
He does not give a numeric handicap in the Short. The claim he offers first is that he is unhandicapped, and "just a healthy man."
The best player in the world, and then a 9-year-old
A host asks what attributes he takes from golf into "your entertainment life or your parenting life." His answer is about how uneven a single round can feel.
"Golf gives you the opportunity to do something exactly how the best player in the world would do it," he says. "And then 6 minutes later, you hit a shot that a 9year-old" — the thought breaks off there in the Short — "and this this is the same you."
He does not name a course or a score. The point, as he leaves it, is that both shots come from the same person, only a few minutes apart.
The fuller conversation is in the full video. The Short stays on the golf: a grown man who once drove past the course in his neighborhood, who likes everything about the game now, and who, asked for a handicap, says he is unhandicapped.
Related reading
- Katt Williams's real name, Micah Sierra Williams
- Katt Williams on getting into his first comedy contest at 16
- Michelle Obama's real name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
- Real names of comedians
FAQ
What is Katt Williams's real name?
Micah Sierra Williams, as set out in his RealNameOf biography. That birth name is not mentioned in this Short.
Did Katt Williams grow up playing golf?
He says he did not. He describes golf as "not a thing" where he grew up, says his neighborhood had a golf course that they "just drove right past," and says he "was grown" when he was introduced to the game.
What does he say his golf handicap is?
Asked, "What's your handicap?", he says, "I'm unhandicapped." Asked if he is a scratch golfer, he says, "Rarely. I have eczema. So I I am a scratch golfer."
What does he say golf is like from shot to shot?
He says the game gives you a chance to do something "exactly how the best player in the world would do it," and then, six minutes later, "you hit a shot that a 9year-old" — the Short cuts off there — "and this this is the same you."