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Wealthy Way

How Small Businesses Beat Bigger Competitors... (DO THIS NOW)

Wealthy Way

Ryan Pineda

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a former golf coach builds a better club than the billion-dollar brands? In this exclusive interview, Ryan Pineda sits down with Tom Bailey, founder of Avoda Golf, the fastest-growing golf club company in the world, used by none other than Bryson DeChambeau to win major championships. From hand-grinding irons in his garage to creating a multi-seven-figure business in under a year, Tom reveals how a small startup is disrupting a legacy industry dominated by giants like Title...

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0:00.0

Today I've got somebody who created a multiple seven-figure company in less than a year from starting in the golf space,

0:07.0

which is a really difficult space to break through when you're talking about all these companies that have been around for decades or even a hundred years.

0:15.6

And they're absolutely changing the game.

0:16.8

And they most notably gains team because Bryson De de chambo has been using their irons winning

0:23.1

events winning majors tom bailey what's up man how we doing hey dude i am a golf nut and you know i had

0:33.9

the founder of crank on recently and you know we talked a lot about, but I also find that your guys' rise in like just the year and a half since the founding

0:43.5

has been amazing. And I think so many of the things you guys are doing is innovative, not just for

0:48.1

the golf industry, but like business wise too. So I'm excited to hear about how you guys even started a golf company, the process of all

0:57.5

this, because I know you guys 3D print your clubs too, which is really unique. And I mean,

1:03.2

you're just getting so much traction now with Bryson having so much success. For sure. Like,

1:07.6

how did all this happen? Truth is, it was one big accident.

1:12.0

This was a pursuit of me just trying to get better at golf.

1:14.4

That led me into the coaching space, really looking at ways to help golfers get better,

1:18.3

led me into equipment side of things.

1:20.4

It was hand-making clubs for a few years for myself to get better,

1:23.6

and then I had some clients who wanted that as well.

1:25.6

It got to a point where I'm busy hand-grinding clubs seven days a week. As much as it was cool, it wasn't what I want to be doing

1:31.0

with my time. So I kind of reconnected with my brother after a couple of years, if not really

1:35.8

communicating. We were often business things in other places and hadn't really spoken much. And

1:40.3

he says, well, why don't we make our own golf clubs? So you don't have to handmake them all the time. I was like, okay, let's do it. How are you even handmaking them? Like, do I imagine

1:48.9

you like melting a club and like, you know, like in the movies? So you just get a load of raw

1:54.4

forgings in. So they're forgings that are grooved, but they're completely blank heads. They're way overweight. And then you got to turn a bench grind on and you bring them down to the weight you want, create the shapes you want. So I was handmaking golf clubs

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