About us

I started golfing in 2019 and found it really tough. I took lessons and got a little better. Once I got good enough to keep score I noticed that a lot of the people I played with didn’t keep score properly. Being a newbie golfer who couldn’t break a hundred I would often have friends offer to give me free strokes, mulligans or flat out say “oh don’t count that one”. I refused to take the free strokes because I knew that keeping score properly was the only way I’d know if I was getting any better. I got to the point where I wanted everyone to know what I was all about so I began yelling “Honest Golf!” anytime someone offered to let me cheat. The phrase caught on quickly and some of my buddies who had previously kept a loose scorecard began scoring properly and shouting “Honest Golf!” at the end of a bad hole.

Being a high profile boxy snapback wearer for most of my adult life made finding golf hats tough. Golf brands don’t make boxy snapbacks and their hats look tiny on my head. I decided to ask a friend who owned an apparel printing company to make me some snapbacks that I could wear while I golfed. I asked him to put “Golf!” in cursive on the hats because that’s what I was using them for and I thought it was hilarious. Turns out a lot of other people did too and I kept getting asked where I got these hats. As someone who has been an entrepreneur since 2008 it was only a matter of time before I decided to run with the idea of selling the hats I had designed. I knew I couldn’t call the brand “Golf!” but the phrase “Honest Golf” was already such a big part of my golf philosophy that it was an easy choice. Thus a brand was born.

 

Welcome to Honest Golf. We sell apparel for people who golf honestly and those who pretend to. Everyone cheats, you don’t have to.

Chris Schembri
Founder & CEO