Global Tour Golf Company Profile
Global Tour Golf (GTG) is a wholesale golf products distribution company founded by Craig Pollard and Mark Ziminsky. The two salesmen combined their respective golf companies in 1995 with the goal of launching the best golf distribution company in the world. In Ziminsky Sales, Mark had a wholesale distribution company stocking and selling shoelaces and metal golf spikes. Craig's OCP Designs patented and manufactured multiple golf accessory products. The two met in 1993 while using the same Postal Annex. This led to multiple meetings in Mark's garage and eventually, the pair moved both garage-based businesses into an actual industrial space. Global Tour Golf's catalogue showcases more than 1,000 products, but it had humble beginnings. The first catalogue was just four pages and featured Craig's patented headcovers, his invention SpikeMate (a golf shoe cover for metal cleats), a few metal spikes, shoelaces and a little-known product called Softspikes. Softspikes would soon become the top-selling golf cleat in the world and provide Global Tour Golf a stronghold in the golf course distribution business during the mid 1990s. To continue growing their business, Mark and Craig soon realized grips and tees were necessary products in their portfolio. A deal was struck with Don Galyean, owner of DG Sales. His company represented the top two grip and tee brands in the industry, and in 1997, Global Tour Golf acquired DG Sales. Soon thereafter, with Mark wanting to focus strictly on sales, Craig became sole owner of Global Tour Golf. Mark continues his commitment to GTG as one of the company's Southern California sales representatives. Craig continued to build GTG into the best wholesale distribution company in the country by adding thousands of golf products to the existing portfolio, making Global Tour Golf the "one-stop shopping source" for golf accessories. Global Tour Golf now has more than 25 outside sales representatives promoting its 1000+ products to over 10,000 accounts worldwide. Twenty percent of the items are exclusively distributed or patented by GTG and the other 80 percent are from trusted suppliers. Global Tour Golf is committed to the original goal of being the best golf accessory distribution company, achieved by offering the best service, products and pricing available. While Global Tour Golf does not have control over manufacturing and also can make mistakes in the order process, GTG can guarantee to go the extra mile to make every customer happy. A happy customer is one who sells through product quickly with strong retail profit margins. GTG guarantees 100 percent sell-through on all 1,500+ products. If a product does not sell, GTG will take it back and replace it with a product that will sell. For the customer, this takes the risk out of buying from Global Tour Golf, and truly makes each transaction an investment, not just a purchase.
