Elevate Your Game - a PGA Tour / Skratch Golf production in partnership with Stratusphere Gin which features a behind the scenes look at creators and makers driving the game of golf forward.
Growing up, I was obsessed with skateboarding. I was also obsessed with golf. I’d go skate one day in baggy clothes and then golf the next in a beat up Volcom hat and tucked in polo. I played golf competitively throughout high school and tried out for college golf, but didn’t make the team. I had to opportunity to choose an internship in the golf industry or the skate industry and I chose the skate world which led me to my first internship during college at a skate/surf/snow magazine called Transworld. I showed up to my interview in a shirt and tie (I got laughed at, but still got the job). Eventually, I ended working at skate/surf/snow brand, DC Shoe Co. and then a fashion driven skate/surf brand called Insight, and eventually helped start a surf brand called Vissla before opening Woon. At this time, skating and golfing were two completely different worlds and I had to keep them separate for the most part (with the exception to a few friends who did both, like Bryan who’s featured in this video). Today, I don’t skate as much because I suck, but those lines are blurred and almost all skaters have tried golf. Some have even started golf brands.
Fast forward, and I decided to open Woon, a Chinese restaurant. A third world that has nothing to do with the other two. It’s weird to think that mashing all three of these worlds has brought me to my dream of working with the PGA Tour/Skratch Golf on a project. This is a dream come true in the weirdest way. Special thanks to Cole Young / Metalwood Studio, Zoe Wilson and Stratusphere Gin for making this happen and Jeff + Bryan for tagging along.