Once I was a a lot youthful man, I used to play some golf, however contemplating that my aim was to sometime play bogey golf (one shot above par on each gap, or a rating of 90 on a par-72 course), I clearly wasn’t superb. As my sons reached the age the place they selected to play just about each crew sport, even once I wasn’t one of many coaches, it nonetheless fell on me to drive them to and from each follow and most each sport. Golf was the one factor in my life on the time that I felt snug giving up, due to how lengthy it takes to play a whole spherical, a lot much less follow or take sufficient classes to enhance.
When Tampa Palms resident Scott Strunk began promoting his firm Good 5 Golf with us, it wasn’t 100% clear to me whether or not he was promoting golf attire or classes or each or what the importance of “Good 5” was — no less than till I learn his rationalization on Good5Golf.com.
For these of you who like to play the world’s most humbling sport, chances are you’ll already be that bogey golfer I aspired to be, which seemingly means you’re hoping to play scratch golf sometime.
If that’s the case, I’m positive you’ve skilled that feeling when you can’ve simply hit a double bogey, however you both hit a pleasant shot from out of the woods or sunk an extended putt that allowed you to nonetheless hit a 5 on a tough par 4 and somebody mentioned to you, “Good 5.” (Or, for me, “Nice 5.”)
Nicely, Scott says that was the motivation for calling the LLC he based together with his childhood pal from rural New Jersey, Jorge Arroyo, in September of this 12 months.
“I had simply gotten a bogey on a par 4 and my pal mentioned to me, ‘Hey, Good 5,’ and that was it for me,” Scott says. “I mentioned, ‘I’m going to start out a golf model known as Good 5.’”
The corporate’s motto on his advert, is “Good 5 is for the golfer who accepts bogey with grace, type and luxury. It’s higher than a double. It’s a Good 5.”
Practically three brief months later, Good 5 is the regionally owned firm that sells top-quality golf caps in a wide range of types — from the super-popular “rope caps,” with the rope crossing the highest of the brim, to trucker-style and peached cotton twill caps, all embroidered right here in Tampa with the distinctive Good 5 emblem. The corporate additionally sells heavyweight golf T-shirts in the entire identical colours because the hats, so you’ll be able to combine and match all of them.
“We can be including golf polo shirts, in each males’s and girls’s types, sooner or later,” Scott says, “however proper now, we’re simply specializing in hats and T-shirts.”
He provides that what he doesn’t need is to place his emblem on “some low-cost polo shirts that collapse after two washings. This model is about high quality, and we’re nonetheless on the lookout for the suitable polo shirts on the proper worth.” He additionally says he additionally plans to place the emblem on ball markers and perhaps even golf tees and golf balls sooner or later, “if issues go effectively.”
Scott notes, nevertheless, that Good 5 in all probability received’t be entering into including golf shorts or pants anytime quickly, “as a result of there are simply too many sizes, matches and types to take care of.”
He additionally says that gross sales are going fairly effectively, however he began promoting Good 5 in these pages as a result of, “I bought fairly a little bit of stock (from Oregon-based Richardson Sports activities), “most of which is taking on a lot of the house in my workplace. In an effort to get hats of this high quality at an inexpensive worth, it’s important to purchase fairly a couple of at a time. Let’s simply say that my bank cards are all just about maxed out.”
Luckily for Scott, whose background is in pc gross sales and who nonetheless has his “day job” with an organization that sells high-end gaming computer systems, “Not like computer systems, shirts and caps stored in plastic received’t go unhealthy in six months or a 12 months or turn out to be what I name ‘aged bananas.’ It’s higher to have too many than to expire of inventory. We have now loads of buddies who’ve purchased them and everybody thus far loves them.”
‘I Actually Need To Do This’
Scott says that when he first instructed Jorge, who nonetheless lives in New Jersey, that he was planning to start out a golf attire firm, Jorge mentioned, “You do notice that’s a extremely aggressive enterprise, proper?”
Scott countered, “I do know, however I’m on the age now the place I don’t simply wish to take into consideration doing issues sooner or later, I wish to truly do them. I actually wish to do that and I actually need it to do effectively. However, if it finally ends up not creating wealth, I suppose that’s OK, too.”
So, Jorge, who had bought an organization and was all the time curious about a good suggestion, agreed to companion together with his long-time pal. They bought the area identify “Good5Golf.com” and Scott says they realized, “We want a extremely cool-looking emblem — which I feel we have now. — and the suitable model with the suitable advertising. I labored with an area firm that I do know from Tampa Palms Golf & Nation Membership to (he has lived in Tampa Palms since 2019) assist me supply a few of the hats and T-shirts and I created the web site. So, we’re going full steam forward with this Good 5 Golf model.”
Scott then enlisted his 25-year-old daughter Ashley — who was on the golf crew at her highschool in Boca Raton after which at Eckerd School — to deal with social media for the enterprise and Good 5 Golf was born.
He notes that, “The explanation the emblem solely says ‘Good 5’ and never ‘Good 5 Golf’ is as a result of I actually need this to turn out to be a ‘way of life model,’ not only a golf model. Good 5 might be about something.”
A Army Tie-In?
Scott says that his father enlisted within the Navy and served as an intelligence officer within the Vietnam Battle. “I used to be born in Key West as a result of my dad was stationed there,” he says.
As well as, George Miragliuolo, one other certainly one of Scott & Jorge’s buddies from their Ok-12 faculty (which had solely 23 children of their graduating class), did a number of excursions of fight responsibility within the navy, so he hopes to sometime have a chance to companion up with a charity that gives service to navy veterans.
“We’re making an attempt to determine how we will honor veterans generally,” Scott says, “and we wish to tie in with one of many nice veterans’ charities occurring on the market. However we haven’t discovered how to do this but.”
For more information about Good 5 Golf, go to Good5Golf.com. You can also observe the model on Fb and Instagram @Good5Golf. And, if you happen to use the code “NewTampa” from the advert under, you’ll save 25% off your buy. So keep in mind, “It’s higher than a double. It’s a Good 5.”
