Golf Traders #445 Avenida Village Mall

Stephen Leavitt was working as a financial planner in 2011, when he noticed how tough it was to find a place to buy used golf clubs in Calgary. “There was nowhere to buy used clubs other than on the internet. Golf clubs are the kind of things you want to try them before you buy them,” says Stephen. “I saw a niche in the market to do something that no one else was doing.” So he decided to sell clubs from his basement and Golf Traders was officially on its way.

He bought clubs wholesale and sold them online from his basement. “I like to tell people I started the business with 500 bucks out of the trunk of my car,” says Stephen. Golf Traders has been growing ever since, doubling in business every year. “It only took two or three months before I was able to quit my job,” says Stephen. He started with about 2,000 clubs stored in his basement but now he has a store, an Ebay site and has partnered with another company out of Saskatchewan. Golf Traders now has about 13,000 mint condition used golf clubs in stock, on average. In 2016, it started selling new clubs, too.