Good Good Golf co-founder breaks silence on Callaway ad drama

The co-founder and face of Good Good Golf, Garrett Clark, broke his silence during the ongoing controversy surrounding the brand in a lengthy video on Wednesday in which he apologized, calling what the company put out a “terrible ad.”He also highlighted some of the vitriol that Good Good’s female talent has received amid the controversy. Clark is the latest person associated with the now-infamous advertisement promoting a driver collaboration between Good Good Golf and Callaway Golf, which saw Clark, early in the spot, shove fellow brand content creator Alexis Miestowski.The ad drew widespread condemnation for what many perceived as making light of domestic violence.

It led both Good Good and Callaway to scrub the video from their social channels. The Good Good co-founder and popular golf content creator said multiple times in his more than eight-minute-long video that the brand does not support domestic violence.He apologized for “playing the role in this ad at the magnitude that I did.”The advertisement was supposed to be a parody of a scene from the horror movie “Obsession,” Clark explained, and that anyone who touched the driver would become “possessed with the obsession of the driver.”“Looking back, super dumb ad concept, terrible ad in general, not the greatest idea,” he said. “Terrible concept, terrible ad.

Once I watched it back and it got posted, my skin was crawling,” Clark later added.“I was cringing.

I mean, just even minutes after I saw it get posted, before this surfaced everywhere online, I thought it was the worst ad known to man.The beginning of the ad was very intense with the way that it was pushed out there and not good, all around not good.”Clark said he’s seen the hate and comments the ad has gotten, saying it was all “very justified.” The ad has created a massive stir among the golf community after it was briefly published and then deleted, with potentially massive repercussions for the Good Good bra...