EP: 152 - Akbar Chisti, SEAMUS GOLF

The Clubhouse with Shane Bacon

The 8 Side

Golf, Sports

4.8 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Co-owner of SEAMUS GOLF, Akbar Chisti, steps into the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon and shares how they transitioned their company from making head covers to creating masks. Akbar also talks about why they decided to take this on and discusses what its like to have a product accepted in the golf community,

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon.
0:14.9	I am your host, Shane Bacon, and I hope you guys are having a solid Friday, if you're listening to this on Friday.
0:20.7	If not, you know what? I hope you had a solo Friday, and I hope you have are having a solid Friday if you're listening to this on Friday. If not, you know what?
0:21.5	I hope you had a solo Friday and I hope you have a great weekend planned ahead.
0:26.3	We are continuing our mini series here of just bringing in good people in and around golf
0:31.9	that have been doing good things during obviously COVID-19, the coronavirus pandemic.
0:37.9	Last week we had Sarah Hoffman on.
0:39.9	If you haven't listened to that interview, go back and listen.
0:43.5	A Symmetra tour player went back to the hospital, has a nursing degree,
0:48.3	and basically went back to help out in Michigan.
0:50.7	And her story is great.
0:52.4	You will be a fan of hers instantaneously when you listen to that.
0:56.1	So if you didn't listen to Sarah, I would urge you to pause this, go back, listen to Sarah's story,
1:02.0	then come back to this episode. That's a lot of me talking, just so you know. But that's what you've
1:06.8	planned to do. That's what you're doing with your life. I can't fault you for your decision making.
1:17.3	Today, we have Akbar Chistee from Seamus Golf. He is a friend of mine. I mean, I've been a friend of his for a number of years. I go back to 2012. I was at Bandon's for the
1:23.7	first time. I was there for, I think it was Taylor Made Adidas, it was called
1:31.4	Where in the World? And they had a competition where they brought two people together. And it was
1:37.4	two guys. And they played golf all around the world. And they had to travel together through all this
1:43.5	stuff. And the competition ended.
1:45.8	I think it was a competition ended at Bannon Dunes was their final destination.
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