Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Egg Podcast.

Today I am joined by Patrick Boyd.

Patrick is the co-founder of National Custom Works

and founder of Boyd Blade and Farrell.

Besides making custom irons, Patrick is also a golf course architecture

addict and was the long time GM of Sweetens Cove.

This will be another two-part podcast with Part 2 dropping on Tuesday.

Enjoy it and I wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving.

I'm Miss Agreen, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my

ball in a fried egg fried egg the dreaded fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg I'm about ready to run off the golf course. Oh, How did you get into club making? Well, I mean, I got into club making? Well I mean I got into club making it was 2003 and I you know I

had always really been into golf clubs and I just decided I had some time on my hands. I found a guy that

had a custom shop that was pretty close to where I was working. I was working in a law firm at the time and I wrote him an email and just was really kind of

interested in learning about building clubs and everything else and I just happened to catch him at the right time. He'd been in business for about a year and he had all these shafts and he pulled out of clubs and I was basically the backroom bitch for this guy for like months and when I kind of got through everything he kind of taught me how to build

clubs and how to fit clubs and I mean that was really kind of my introduction to the golf equipment business.

I'm still in touch with the guy too.

He was a great mentor for him.

His name's Leif Anderson.

He's in he's in Indiana, but I mean it was just, you know, was one of those moments in my life where it was, you know, something I'd always kind of wanted to look at doing and you know it was either you have this

opportunity now to do it I was you know I was 25 26 at the time and you know just kind of dove into it. You know it it's been an interesting

rabbit hole to say the least it it's kind of taking me all over the place living and and as far as just having different different hats and doing different things in golf. It's been a really fun ride.

And obviously, there's nothing I'd really change about it,

but yeah, I was just kind of an auspicious start

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