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Ever wondered how to start a golf apparel brand from scratch — and actually sell the products you order? In this video, I sit down with an entrepreneur who’s building a faith-based golf apparel brand, and we walk through the exact steps you need to take to grow your golf clothing business the right way.
Whether you’re just getting started or already have inventory sitting in your garage, this conversation will help you:
✅ Define your golf brand’s mission and message
✅ Find your ideal audience (and actually connect with them)
✅ Create a unique visual identity for your golf apparel
✅ Market your brand using content, community, and storytelling
✅ Lean authentically into your faith-based vision without losing brand appeal
✅ Move product and build momentum without wasting money
We also talk through how to build a golf apparel brand that lasts, how to design products that stand out in a crowded space, and why your story matters more than your logo.
If you’ve been searching for:
How to start a golf apparel brand
Starting a golf clothing line
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Faith-based clothing brand tips
…this video is exactly what you need.
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Welcome back to the channel everybody. If you don’t know who I am, my name is Derek and I run a golf apparel brand called Public Country Club. In this series, I am showing uh other people how to start and grow a golf apparel brand. Uh so, if that’s something you’re interested in, please make sure you subscribe to the channel. On today’s video, we have something a little bit different. As I started making this series, I’ve had a bunch of people reach out to me um about wanting to start their own golf apparel brand, and we’ve had many great conversations. Um and I thought this one was particularly interesting. So, I wanted to share the entire conversation with you uh because I think it answers a lot of questions that new golf brands uh or people that are just starting golf brands have uh when they’re first launching or how to move their first round of products. So, uh the individual that reached out to me is starting a faith-based golf apparel brand, and he definitely had some some concerns about challenges as far as like uh is he niching down too much? Is there an audience for this? Um how to go through the inventory that he’s already purchased. So, we talked through a lot of those things. And if you are interested in starting your own golf apparel brand and just not sure where to start, you can click the pinned comment down below and it’ll take you to a link where you can schedule a time to meet with me. So, if you want to get some ideas for your own golf apparel brand or just have specific questions that you want answered, um, or just, you know, general conversation to help you kind of spark some interest and spark some ideas, happy to do that. Just click the pin comment down below, schedule a time to talk to me, and uh, we’ll hop on a call. Now, on to today’s video where we learn about Eden Golf Apparel, a faith-based golf apparel brand that is launching right in Ohio. Cool, man. So, tell me a little bit about uh about Eden Golf. Yeah, so it is a faith-based golf brand here. Um started it really this summer. So, I’m looking I got my polos in yesterday. So nice. Um it’s just really me doing it out of my basement right now trying to build it on obviously all the social medias without making a huge fool of myself cuz it’s like I don’t know. I mean you started it’s just kind of an an odd thing and trying to get it out there and stuff like that. Um but anyway so Eden it kind of sparked from just you know my love for Jesus and I really I’ve always liked brands. I’ve always been like hey this is the brand I wear yada yada. I’m like, well, it’d be cool to have my own golf brand and wear my own stuff rather than paying $80 a polo for stuff like that. You know, now I’m spending a bunch of money to have a bunch of polos. But turns out it’s way cheaper to buy polos than it is to make way cheaper. Yeah. So, so it kind of just sparked, you know, of be golfing with some friends or something, you know, and they start saying the Lord’s name in vain and stuff like that and I’m just like, man, it’s not his fault you missed the the putt, you know. It just like so it just kind of sparked from that where it’s just like hey maybe if I wear this people won’t talk like that around me and then kind of sparked like okay well maybe they’ll they’ll look up cuz let me see here. So like all they’ll have like the a Bible verse I don’t know if you can see it on here on the side. So maybe they’ll look up the Bible verse and be like yeah what is that you know so kind of sparking their own interest in in the Bible and Jesus and stuff like that. So you can probably see it better on the red one. Yep. Yep. For sure. Yeah. So, so yeah, I mean I launched hats this summer. Um, I got those in I’d say like July or August or something like that. Um, I still have probably about half left of the of the two colors. Um, and I’m really just local like where I’m selling now. Based out of Ohio, like right in the middle of Ohio. So, so yeah, I mean that’s really it. I’ve had a lot of people I could go to church with, friends, things like that, buy stuff. Um, I’ve linked up with a kid, or I call him a kid, he’s younger than me, but he’s um, you know, pursuing to be professional golfer. That’s what he does full-time. Like, he’s repping my hats and stuff like that down in Florida and Georgia. Yeah. So, I mean, it it was pretty cool. But I just got the polls in yesterday. So, I’m really at that point of like, how do I launch this? So, I saw your last video about like have them pre-order, have them pre-order. It’s like, well, I’ve already ordered these and paid for them. So, like that’s out kind of. So, I kind of what I’m thinking is, you know, I’ve got some subscribers on Shopify and stuff like that, so I can send emails. And for the hats, I did like early access, you know, like, hey, you can get in here and order some hats. Yeah, it it’s always it starts small, which is which I mean, that’s not a bad thing at all. Right. So, um the the cool thing is your your market is very specific, which is awesome. Um because again, it’s one of those things where if you end up trying to reach everybody, you reach nobody, right? So, how many what was your minimums on those? How many did you have to order? I had I ordered a hundred basically 50 and 50 of the two colors, but they made a couple extra and I’m not sure. I forget what it was. Yeah. Maybe like 105 to 106. Yep. They always do like a 10% roll like addition which is one thing that I didn’t know when I first started ordering. They were like they were like hey you could your minimum is 100 then you order 100. They’re like well now you owe us for 112. And you’re like well how does that and they’re like well we order for you know larger. So in case of like mistakes and things like that you know the beautiful thing is that at 100 pieces like you’re not going to sit on those long or you shouldn’t have to sit on those long, right? Like the the the the way to the way to market and right now it’s it’s you didn’t you just got the samples in. You didn’t get all 100 in already. No, I got them all. You got all 100? Okay, cool. Yeah. Um, so two two things that that kind of jump out that like you could do just to move those relatively quickly. First off, do you like the quality of them? I do. Okay, cool. Yeah. So So that’s that’s a that’s a good thing. I mean, like honestly, like you’re you’re you’re light years ahead of everybody else that’s just starting because they’re like, I don’t know how to get manufacturing or I don’t want to take the risk. And it’s like, hey, that’s part of the journey, right? you you have to you have to take and literally take a leap of faith and and hope that you know it’s going to be exactly what you’re ordering or what you wanted. Um you know the beautiful thing is where I see you really excelling and and it’s a good market to be in because the faith-based market is super loyal and they are super willing to support people that also support their beliefs and their journeys. Right? So, um, you know, I look back at it just from doing standup comedy, like there’s comics in the in the Christian, the faith-based market that you may not know of outside of it, but they’re selling out 5,000 seat mega churches, right? So, like so like there’s a market there. And um and so the the biggest thing that I would do is I would find um a list of every almost every church or faith-based organization does a golf outing, right? Okay. Yeah. And and that’s and and so like at least just to start that’s a massive massive massive opportunity to do two things, right? The first is, hey, can I, you know, sponsor a hole, you know, where it gets my, you know, uh, my logo out there or my name out there. Can I send you a gift basket? And then the third thing is can I come in and set up a tent, you know, at like buy the first tea or buy, you know, registration and sell this stuff and I’ll give you 10% of what I raised to go back to your your mission or your ministry or whatever. Um, you know, like that’s that’s a massive opportunity and and you’re you’re sacrificing a few Saturdays by doing that. But, um, but I definitely think that’s that’s worth it. Um, the other thing, the other way to launch is I I wouldn’t I I wouldn’t put it all out there on the website right now. Um, I would start teasing it. Um, do some giveaways, do some fun things like that. Uh, because it’s October, we’re we’re rapidly approaching November and the fact of the matter is people just aren’t buying golf polos right now, right? So, um, so getting that spring launch or that early like March, you know, when the when the season starts to pick up here, I would just start pushing everything towards that, right? So, you’re sitting on a hundred 100 polos for right now, but that’s okay because at the the next level is going to and you can do small drops before before then like maybe like come up with a better hat or like a diff not a better hat, but like a different hat like that. You know what I Like and that’s something I’ve kind of thought about too is like when I ordered these and got the lead time like I’m going to get these midocctober and it’s like this is the end of Ohio golf season. Sure. So it’s like do I just sit on these for cuz initially like what I thought was like and I I have to look it up but it’s usually roughly the same like I mean you’re in Pennsylvania is that right? Yeah. So like same season. And so like once the um the masters starts, it’s kind of like all right, I’m kind of getting that in season, right? Yeah. So like I thought of like waiting until then like that like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday like launching maybe like on Saturday, like on Saturday of like, hey, they’re all out there, you know, when people are start getting like a that that like edge of like golf season or right. That’s kind of what I thought, but I mean that that I just don’t know what what when to do it because I thought that too. I’m like end of the end of the season. I’ll probably sell some the people that have been like asking about them. Sure. I went to church with he’s like, “Hey, the polo’s in yet. Can I get one?” I’m like, “Not yet, man.” You know, like I mean, and that and that’s the thing, too, like like don’t don’t turn down a sale since you have everything now. Like obviously go after it and and and sell what you can. Um realistically, what what’s your what’s your margin on those? So you about 50% margin or 60% margin a little bit higher than that maybe probably a little bit higher. Um and what are you hoping to retail them for basically? I think 55. Perfect. So let’s let’s just assume because I don’t want to you know obviously your back end is your back end and no one else needs to know that. But like let’s let’s assume you’re you’re getting them landed here for for 20 bucks, you know, with everything all in, right? So um so that’s that’s awesome, right? And and so what you could do now, especially right now in Ohio, if you wanted to make up that that difference in price, cuz you have a couple thousand out right now in in unsold merch, you could easily find two to three golf shops where maybe the pro is a Christian or maybe the um the assistant’s a Christian or they have a strong tie with uh you know, whatever the case is with a church or affiliation, right? Reach out to them and be like, “Hey, I just launched this faith-based golf apparel brand. Um, you know, we’re we’re trying to break into this market a little bit here. I have some polo some polos already done. Would you be interested in purchasing 20 for your shop right now at that you’re not going to sell it to them for retail. You might sell it to them for, you know, $30 to $32 a polo, which is completely fine. Um, but now you can get some pre-orders right now.” And that’s the difference between like when I say pre-order, it’s so hard to get pre-orders from people on Shopify to like sign up for your email list and actually commit to purchasing something that’s not going to be available for four months from now. That’s just not how that’s not how we work as humans anymore with Amazon being 48 hour delivery. So, when I say pre-order, I’m talking like go to these golf shops. Go to right now, especially in the winter time, like this time of year. There’s we’ll be heading into um golf shows like northeastern Pennsylvania, northeastern uh you know, the this region golf shows. So, they’re indoor golf shows where like you’ll see a lot of like travel companies go there to wants to sell you golf packages. There’ll be like some um some golf stores that’ll be there. You can buy a booth there and set it up. And I mean, you may sell out of all 100 hood, all 100 polos. Yeah. Before the season even launches, which is a good problem to have because then it’s a reorder or it’s a, you know, redesign and launch something new, right? Okay. It’s not a bad idea. I I would be willing to bet if you put in 48 hours over the next week and a half or two weeks of of reaching out to golf courses just getting them on the phone be like, “Hey, can I just show you some stuff?” You you’re going to sell somewhere between 20 and and 50 polos pretty easily. Right. So, right now, did you did you personally design the the polos or did you pick from a stock polo that they had and then put your logo? Both is fine, by the way. Um, so the red one, it’s just I would say like this like your normal like floral print. Sure. It’s probably hard to tell on here, but yeah, just, you know, I sent them a couple like, “Hey, I like these. I like the floral design.” Um, and sent it to them. They probably had a stock one they sent me and said, “I like the red.” And that’s what they want. This This one here was just kind of a combination of like I probably I think I saw a polo like this while I was looking at designs. I was like, “Hey, I kind of like this design.” and they’re like, “Yeah, we can do that.” I was like, “Great.” So, um, so I mean, it wasn’t too much designing on my side as far as like I’m looking at other polos and be like, “Ah, that one’s cool. Like, I would wear that one.” And then, so the the two things it’s going to come down to that’s going to make you successful versus making you just another brand, right? your designs, especially given where you are and what you’re trying to do, are going to be so important because it’s also delivering a message right now. Imagine imagine a design instead of just stitching Philippians 4:13 here. I can do all things through Christ strength. Instead, instead of just stitching that on the on the sleeve, imagine if you had like a script um like uh micro print logo that said, “I can do all things through Christ.” like repeating over and over and over and over. Have you ever seen like the uh breezy breezy golf? I’m sure if you watch any YouTube golf, you know Bob does. They have a they have a print that just says breezy and it’s just breezy over and over and over and over and over again. Now imagine that with Philippians 4:13. Now what that does it it takes it takes your message, your literal message, and it makes it the actual piece that you’re wearing. Right? So people will buy for two reasons. one, they either like you or they like the mission. And then the then anytime they reorder, it’s because they like you, the mission, and the quality of the product, right? So, so what you need to really focus on is I would lean super heavy into the design part of it, you got to again, if you’re going to lean into the faith market, like lean all the way in. Like, like leave no doubt that this is what you’re doing, right? And um you know even something as simple as like you could have a hat that’s that has Eden on the side of it and then here in like big bulk lettering 413 or any other additional Bible verse and what you’re going to find is you can have different collections or different product lines based on different Bible verses. Right. That’s ex Yeah, that’s that’s the idea. So like have different like like exactly what we just said was this will be the Philippians drop and then it’s like hey we’ll have the because the hats are actually Romans 8:31 on the inside. Okay. Like I did different of those but again I’m just trying to figure this stuff out. But eventually what I want to do is like probably the next order will be like hats and polos that go together. I love that. Love that because I think it was one of your videos of like getting them to buy. I think it was when you did like the polos with with the hoodies and then with the hoodies like man you can buy the match. You know, you make two sales rather than one. Yep. And and I think I had already the and the hats are just I don’t have any here but you know gray and black and it has the logo on the front and the Romans 831 on the inside. And I mean they’re sweet. I mean, we actually just traveled this weekend and I wore it around Florida and the flight attendant, she goes, “What is your hat?” You know, a lot of people ask me about the hat. So, I’m like, “I need to get cards made or something.” Like, “Oh, it’s eating golf apparel. Look it up.” And, you know, I’m brand new. So, I said, “If it looks kind of sketchy, it’s me cuz I don’t do this full time. It’s like a side gig, you know?” For sure. Um, but yeah, I mean, back to your point, like that’s the idea is like a different verse being different drops type thing, you know? That way people will be like, “Oh, that was Romans 8:31.” You know, like hopefully like each drop or each line is a Bible verse or each line is its own thing. And then you can do specific colorways in that line. You can do a a white and a blue. You can do a, you know, you know, for Easter, you could do a drop for like every around every major Christian holiday, you could have a piece that comes out. I think I think like you’re in a really good spot because you know who your audience is. It’s going to be faith-based golfers who also want to, you know, be representing you and representing the golf side of things. So, um, I love that. That that’s actually really smart and I think you’re in a really good spot there. Um, and you’re probably super well connected in the faith-based side of things right now. Locally. Yeah. Locally. Yeah. Um, you know, one thing that sticks out to me is like I I don’t think, and this is where I I’ll be honest, this is where I failed last year because I was in so far over my head just trying to get the brand kind of going. I didn’t create nearly enough content, right? And every time I make a video about building a golf indust, building a golf apparel brand, like I get three or four people that like, “Hey, I want to talk. Hey, let’s chat. Hey, let’s hop on a Zoom.” You know what I mean? So, I know that there’s a market there and I like talking and helping people as much as I can just to avoid the mistakes that I made. So, the one mistake that I made that I that I that I pray that you don’t make uh in your first year coming into, you know, the market, dude, you can make so much content based on um this, right? So, like you can literally go out and play three holes with a with a priest or a preacher or somebody in your church that can tell you what brought them to Jesus or what brought them to the Lord or hey, today we’re talking to the most interesting Christian I know and it just happens to be on a golf course, right? And so, like your content because then what you’re going to do when you put that out there, like I’m putting these videos out about about starting a golf apparel brand and guess who it’s attracting? People who are trying to start a golf apparel brand. So, if you put videos out about Christian, you know, talking to Christians, talking to golfers, talking to Christian golfers, guess who it’s going to attract to your channel? Christian golfers. And guess what they’re going to want to do now? They have a face with the with the brand. They’re going to want to support you, right? Right. That’s a good idea. Yeah. You could easily John Christrist, who if if you like comedy and you like Christianity, like you know who he is. one of the biggest comedians in the world. Also a massive Christian, right? And he golfs. He’s a massive golfer, right? Shoot him shoot him a DM every day until he says he’ll play one hole of golf with you, right? He lives in Tennessee. So like for from Ohio, that’s only like a five, six hour drive. It’s not it’s not impossible for you to get down there just to do one hole with John C. You know what I mean? And like come up with one good question and then, you know, and then post that, right? like because that’s going to get views, right? So, um the the biggest thing it’s it’s you can spend a lot of money marketing or you can create content around your brand even if it’s just you making funny skits like you know like dear God why do you why do you give your weakest soldiers their toughest tests? You’re looking at the sky and God’s like it’s a three-footer you know you know what I mean like you know just something like that and then it just cuts away to like your logo and and and that’s it. You know what I mean? like you could really lean into this. But yeah, I’ve just been like thinking like how do I market this? Like with the hats like I I don’t want to say discouraged, I was like, man, why are these not moving, you know? So I like paid for an ad on Facebook and I you get views and I don’t think anyone ever bought one, whatever. So I’m like, how do I like get these polos? Cuz that that’s going to be my bread and butter is polos. Then I want to do hoodies, then I want to do like range. Like I want to expand, but it’s again it’s it’s my own extra cash that we’re using for this. So it’s like, you know, so I can’t roll out six different products and and nor should you. Nor should you. You don’t have you don’t have the bandwidth right now to to selling through that much. Yeah. Yeah. So I’m just trying to figure out and and I thought of that too like okay like if I can get someone that knows how to do videos like just real quick before I forget. Um your church is it is is your church technologically advanced? When I say that are they streaming on Facebook? Are they streaming online? Okay. Well, here’s the old school Catholics. Perfect. Love that. I love that. So, so here’s So, here’s what I would say. If you go to 20 churches just around your town or within 30 minutes of your town, there’s at least 20 churches. One of those churches, and you can even do the research on like Facebook or online, okay? Is going to be technologically ahead of your church as far as video and stuff like that. And and here’s and here’s the thing, right? Like they it’s not the preacher that knows how to stream. They’re not, you know, they’re not they’re not streaming. they’re not doing, but somebody at that church does, whether it be an intern or whether it be like a young person that just happens to go to that church, you can have them be like, “Hey man, do you golf?” Yes. Cool. How would you like to help me make Christian-based golf content? Right. And most of the time, like, I’ll out you with everything and as soon as this starts making money, I’ll make I’ll make sure you you get some, right? I feel like I think that’s the biggest thing is like you don’t have to be good at everything, but you have to find people who are, right? And that’s what you need to do anytime you have a flaw or a fault. Just just ship it off to somebody else because the time the amount of time it would take you to learn how to operate a camera and edit a video is you’re you’re better off spending designing or creating or you like your your first like your first Facebook ads, I’m assuming they didn’t go well because they were a picture of the hat and then a textbased like eating golf company, you know, new drop or something like that, right? It’s not going to work, right? What what you could do is like you could have you wearing the hat, you know, and talking about just just you talking to the camera and I’ll send you um a video of my first ad that I did where I was just trying to get people to sign up for our email list. It was just me talking to the camera. Hey, are you tired of overpriced golf apparel brands? Well, here’s the thing. I’m trying to do, you know, and it was just me talking to the camera. We’re not at launch yet, but if you click the link right below, you can go to our, you know, VIP list. And right and it m I mean we g we went from zero um zero people in the email list to like 300 in like three weeks, right? So like it worked, right? And so, and so like you can do it that easily just talking to the camera and being like, “Hey, um, I love Jesus even though he hates my handicap or whatever the you know what I mean or or just like, hey, if you’ve ever felt like you wanted to, you know, you know, wear your your faith while you’re on the golf course, just you can create a short script, talk about it, show the hat, and be like, “We only have a few left. We’re praying. We’re hoping to reorder here as soon as we can, but like please make sure you grab yours today.” Boom. Urgency, call to action, and it’s you talking to the camera, right? People scroll past pictures all the time on just or Facebook or anything. They just don’t look at them anymore. Yep. Okay, that’s good. Yeah, because you’re going down this niche rabbit hole. It’s It’s going to be more difficult to be bigger, but you have to you don’t have to think about content because your content is what it’s going to be, right? you’re never going to do a drinking challenge. You know what I mean? Like that’s never going to be you. But what you can do is you can lean so hard into this, you know, into this market and into this kind of content and just put it out every single day. You know what I mean? Like run contests, run ads, run giveaway, whatever the case is. But like lean so hard into this Christian market. And um you know, Christians support groups are everywhere, right? So, like I’m sure there’s a faith-based golf league out there somewhere in Ohio. There’s probably a few and I would reach out to them. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, so that professional golfer I talked to um he’s in him and his dad are in a it’s a men’s group. It’s a men’s Christian golf group down I think I think he’s out of Kentucky. Sure. Belt region there is going to be Yeah. Right there. So like there is, you know, and that’s what’s hard, too. I’m I’m such in a small town where like there’s not big opportunities for like, hey, there’s 100 guys that get together every week and they go, you know, it’s like here’s here’s the good news, Austin. Say you live in a small town. Dude, I grew up in a town of less than 6,000 people. With the internet, you’re not in a small town. You have access to everybody. Now, here’s what I would tell you. if you want to move this product really quickly and because you were talking about that, um I think I just kind of came up with an idea and you may not feel comfortable doing this, but I think take some time at least take some time to think on this. Okay. Reach out to him. Uh figure out what nights or what night that that league, you know, meets or golfs in Kentucky. Again, it’s Kentucky from Ohio’s four hours. You know what I mean? It’s nothing, right? So, you could go down there. Let’s say they have a 100 golfers. Let’s say they have 50 golfers, right? You could go down there and be like, “Hey, I would love to come present my brand to you guys. And now when you get down there, you talk about the brand, you talk about your faith, you talk about everything.” You might sell out right then and there on the spot. You may not. But what you may end up doing is you’re going to network with those people in that league and he’ll be like, “Hey, you know, my buddy so and so plays over here on Wednesday nights and it’s a Christianbased league. You can literally just make your market just reaching out to these Christianbased Yeah. Okay. But but you got to get in front of them, right? Like like it’s it’s not an email, right? It’s not a text message. Like you got to get in front of them and show them your p like again it’s it’s reading the Bible is not the same as going to church, right? Like when you go to church, you feel inspired because someone’s giving it to you with inflection, right? And and that’s the biggest thing, man. You got to sell how much this means to you because also, you know, in the faith-based market, there’s a lot of fake people and there’s a lot of fake Christians, there’s a lot of people that hide behind the Bible that you’re like, you you’re not, don’t tell me you’re, you know what I mean? Like, I’m not here to judge you, but don’t tell me you’re a Christian based on your actions, right? And so, like, when people see that in you and they see how inspired you are and they see how excited you are, um, I think I think it’s it’s just more genuine that way. Yeah, it’s a good point. Yeah. Biggest thing though Everybody has an opportunity to buy a polo and every golfer has an opportunity to buy a hat. Why are they buying yours? Right? And if it’s and if it’s if it’s like, oh, it’s it’s floral design and I like floral design, then that might be you might get a small percentage of the sales, but again, your your pieces should say everything about you and your brand, right? So, and especially when you’re this niche, you just has to. That’s a good point. I never thought of it like that. Yeah, you could you could do a micro print t-shirt or micro print uh polo of just crosses, right? And I’m telling you that may sell that that would sell 10 times better than just a floral print because it’s your message and it’s you, right? And I I’ve had these thoughts too. Sure. Yeah, for sure. But I think I don’t know if it’s fear a little bit of like 100%. Yeah. You don’t I mean cuz you’re cuz in your mind when you order these you’re like I am limiting myself to such a small market. But guess what? I I was just telling somebody else about this the other day. Did you uh I think it was Lynx Lynx Golf. Do you remember like uh Lynn NX? Like they were they made golf they made golf clubs, right? Um, they made golf clubs back in like the 90s and they they had uh Phil Mickelson played them at the time and they were struggling to compete against Titalist and Callaway and Ping and the CEO got an idea from one of the lower level executives. They’re like, “What if we just because Phil Mickelson’s the best left-handed golfer in the world, what if we just make golf clubs for left-handed people and we’ll be and we’ll we’ll say we are the greatest brand for left-handed golfers.” And the CEO was like, “I’m not gonna cut off 75% of the population like that. It doesn’t make sense.” Yeah. Phil signs with Callaway. Lynx is out of business. Right. Because they didn’t have any names left. They didn’t have had they and it could not, it might not have worked, but had they leaned into what was working for them or what their, you know, what was being seen on TV, they could have been huge. I mean, they could have been, you know, they could have dominated a market that no one else has ever tried to dominate, right? There are other faith faith-based golf apparel brands out there. And and look up their designs. See what they’re doing. Because honestly, man, like if they’re not leaning super hard into the faith-based patterns and designs, then guess what? You you’re going to win every time. Okay. Yeah, it’s a good point. This is the stuff that gets me excited. like this is like these are like these these conversations get excited cuz they’re like it’s good for me to have these two because it’s my wife’s been great. I’ve talked to some friends and family and what I’ve also noticed too is I don’t know how people be like you know what you should do. Oh, tell me what I should do. You know, it’s like that kind of stuff. People are way okay spending your money when it’s not when it doesn’t affect them, right? But it’s good having these conversations too because it’s mostly like my wife and I and you know, she’s like, “Yeah, I think it’s a good idea.” And you know, it’s like cool. She said, she she backs me so, you know, but having when you, you know, outside looking in telling me kind of like, hey, this is when you’re that close to a a brand or when you’re that close to to the to the idea, you can’t you can’t see anything but great, right? You can’t see anything but how this is going to be successful. I’m telling you, dude, some of my worst ide some of my my what I thought were my best ideas, I would tell it to somebody like, “You’re an idiot.” And I’m like, “Oh, you’re right. I” And just hearing somebody else say, “That’s stupid.” You’re like, “You’re right. That is really stupid. Why would I ever do that?” But like, but I mean, I just don’t see a way that a a faith-based and I’m not saying all your apparel has to be that way, but you should your staples, your four staples of polo shirts or hoodies or whatever you want or zip ups or quarter zips should be faith-based because you’re going to be able to go through a lot more of those. Okay. You just are. Yeah. I mean, it just makes sense. Right. And if it’s cool with you, um, what I’d like to do is I I would love to throw together a design for you just to get your juices flowing. Like, hey, if I were to design something like this, here’s what I would do. And I’ll just send you that. And And you can hate it. I’m not, you know, I’ll be honest. I’m not going to spend a ton of time on, but I I just I just want you to kind of see what what it could be because because your designs are going to be your fingerprint. And in a world where there’s so many golf brands, your fingerprint matters more than anybody. So, so you need to you need to find that, right? Like just putting just putting a Bible verse on a shirt. It’s it’s fine for right now because it’s your first launch and you just you already did the hard part and you ordered, right? The hard part. You you took a leap of faith and you got apparel here. Now, you got to do the really hard part and make that turn this from an idea into a brand. And the only way you’re going to do that is by really being a good at designing and and your pieces stand out. Yeah. I think I think that’s where you really need to really need to crush it. Yeah, I would agree. I will tell you, we have about less than a minute left before it off here, but but I I I want to I want to send you that that that print and um you’ll have my phone number in the email as well. Dude, we’re so close. We’re like neighbors here. If you ever wanted to like I go through Ohio literally all the time for stuff like that. So, I’ll I’ll hit you up, man. I, you know, I’d love to I’d love to just, you know, just talk shop and and sit with you and just and just, you know, really really expand this because I I think you got you obviously have the passion to make this happen. So now we just got to steer that in the right direction. Sounds good, man. I appreciate it. Absolutely, dude. It was great talking to you. Yeah, you too, man. All right. I’ll talk to you soon. Yep. See you. All right. Bye. [Music]
