INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
Glod’s passion for building golf clubs is the driving force behind every Tour Edge design
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TOUR EDGE:
AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY D
avid Glod has seen it all in the golf industry. Glod, a former golf pro at Village Links Golf Club in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, was working out of his parent’s garage building and repairing clubs for the high-end clubs of Chicago. It was a lucrative business for the aspiring high school golfer. He moved to a townhouse when he was 22 after playing college golf at Florida Southern and was building and grinding more clubs than he could handle on his own. A few garage fires (nothing serious) and a wad of cash later, the young entrepreneur started to believe there was an opportunity
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in the golf industry to provide a highquality product at an affordable price. This led Glod to found Tour Edge, to lead the company as their President and to design his first golf club in 1987 and never look back. Today, Tour Edge is an American owned and operated company for more than 34 years. Tour Edge ranks in the Top 10 in every club category now in worldwide golf sales and is a 22-time winner on the professional tours. Tour Edge has been a company that spends money on materials and not necessarily huge marketing dollars when compared to the behemoths of
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the industry. Glod likes to put everything he can in the design of the club for maximum performance without passing the buck of marketing and tour contracts to the consumer. Tour validation for Tour Edge started with the launch of Glod’s Exotics line in 2005. It was instantly apparent that Glod had designed metalwoods that were up to 30 yards longer than the market leaders. Lightning in a bottle so to speak. Many of the best players on the PGA TOUR started playing Exotics without being paid to do so, enough so that it led to 10 victories on the big tour
