YouTube Golf Channel Fires CEO Over Ad Where Woman Gets Body-Slammed for Driver

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•On September 2026, Good Good’s CEO Matt Kendrick and president Joe Flannery resigned following backlash against an ad featuring cofounder Garrett Clark pushing a female teammate down.
•Callaway ended its partnership and retailers pulled products after critics labeled the ad as promoting violence toward women.
•Nahid Giga, one of Good Good’s founders and early investors, assumed interim CEO duties while marketing heads were also dismissed.

Good Good, the YouTube golf startup launched by founders Matt Kendrick and Nahid Giga, just scored an ad disaster only a PGA Tour event could dream of. In August 2026, cofounder Garrett Clark shoved teammate Alexis Miestowski to the ground shouting, 'Do not touch my new driver,' in a commercial that advertisers called out as promoting violence against women. After losing Callaway and retail sponsors, CEO Matt Kendrick (who hadn't even seen the ad) stepped down the same day president Joe Flannery quit—despite just starting. Kroka of leadership bloodshed, $45 million raised, and the marketing head was also fired. Interim CEO Giga now faces the borderline impossible mission: making golf videos while rebranding a slamfest ad as 'There's More to Golf.'

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Good Good’s CEO quits over an ad where cofounder bodyslams a woman for his golf club. Meanwhile, marketing’s caught in a lie they never saw it coming.

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Imagine firing your CEO and marketing head because one cofounder turned golf club jealousy into WWE. Golf's never been this cage-match-y.

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When your ad’s main move is a cofounder tackling a woman but you still touted golf as ‘inclusive’—the irony tees off hard.

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