May 03, 2016 1 min read
"FlingGolf is about kids, friends and families having a good time on the course. It took off pretty quickly and we were easily over 1500 rounds last year. There's no reason next year (2016) we wont be up over 2000 rounds with FlingGolf." Brett Mowbray, PGA Pro at Woodstone Meadows Golf Course, Massanutten Resort, Virginia. Massanutten will be the site of the 2016 Virginia Commonwealth Games FlingGolf tournament on July 30. More to come on that soon.
April 13, 2016 1 min read
We welcome Australia to the FlingTribe! With FlingSticks on the way, Lancelin Golf Course (near Perth) will be drawing in new crowds from their famous kitesurfing beaches to chill with a few holes of FlingGolf. We think that may be as far away as possible from our World Headquarters outside Boston - until we get an order from Antarctica!
FLINGGOLF at Capon Springs, WV.
Also, make some time to head to the hills for Capon Springs Opening Day BarbQ, Music and FlingGolf festival, in West Virginia April 29 to May 1. Should be a rippin' good time!
http://gotowv.com/event/opening-weekend-party-live-music-fling-golf-may-day-dance/
April 05, 2016 3 min read
PlusOne Sports’ FlingGolf is Official Partner of the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse
BOSTON—April 4, 2016—PlusOne Sports with its innovative new sport, FlingGolf, and the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse announce today that they have formed a partnership for the 2016 MLL Season.
FlingGolf — a fun, fast and thrilling hybrid of golf and lacrosse — is played on a golf course, with a golf ball, and is scored similar to golf. Players use a FlingStick — a lightweight, carbon fiber stick with a high tech cradle for the ball at the end — to launch a regulation golf ball around a golf course, expertly shaping their shots. No modifications to the course are required, and it’s so easy to learn that players can head out to the course in less than a half hour.
March 24, 2016 1 min read
Our FlingGolf Europe division is preparing for the first Dutch FlingGolf open, to take place at Golf4All, in Zeewolde Netherlands on April 23. It'll be a great time for all!
For an article in Dutch from SportKnowHowXL Magazine, click on the link or the picture:
March 10, 2016 2 min read
Fads come and go. Business cycles are perpetual. Change is inevitable.
What are your biggest problems?
Not enough younger players? Are your fees too high? Is golf boring? Too slow (or not fast enough)? Are you constantly feeling the push/pull between existing members and trying to gain new membership? Is this business model outdated? Be different. Think differently. Be creative.
Let’s keep it simple: Attract younger players and non-golfers to your facility. This isn’t just an “adopt it and they will come” solution; FlingGolf has built the product. Now let’s grow this together! Get the FlingStick into the hands of a younger player. Make them the champion. They’ll tell their friends. They’ll be back. It’s that simple. They won’t destroy your facility. They’ll love it. You can partner with the hockey, baseball, and lacrosse players. Organizations will want to have their events at your facility.
January 27, 2016 1 min read
Read further about Brookview Golf Course success rolling out FlingGolf in Minnesota!
GolfBusiness is the publication of the National Golf Course Owners Association.
December 27, 2015 1 min read
At PlusOne Sports, we are enormously proud and grateful for how far FlingGolf has gone in our first full year. Our FlingSticks are now on courses in the USA, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, several countries in Europe and most recently New Zealand. We even got a report of a round being played in Morocco, Africa! We set out to create nothing less than a killer new sport, and thanks to our pioneering friends and customers in the golf course, lacrosse, and resort worlds, we have done just that. Players are having fun on golf courses, and those courses are seeing their revenues bump back up to where they should be.
Thank you for a fantastic 2015, continue to spread the FlingGospel, and we look forward to growing the sport even more in 2016.
Alex Van Alen
Founder
PlusOne Sports/FlingGolf
December 15, 2015 1 min read
So stoked to be featured in the family issue of Golf Digest (Jason Day on the cover with his son). FlingGolf is featured as a great option for young athletes and families, especially for lacrosse lovers. Also mentioned was Woodstone Meadows GC, at the Massanutten Resort in Virginia, which killed it this year with over 1500 rounds of FingGolf played! Onward!
One thing: GD says the max distance is 200 yards with one of our FlingSticks, but we know now, thanks to the Boston Cannons lacrosse team, that 250 yards is attainable. Huge bombs from them.
November 06, 2015 1 min read
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Golf.com gets it right again with FlingGolf:
At PlusOne Sports, we're bringing more people to the "mountain" (i.e. course), and its "unlike anything you've seen."!
http://www.golf.com/golf-plus/fling-golf-crossover-appeal
October 27, 2015 1 min read
Some of the biggest FlingGolf bombs ever occurred at the Boston Cannons Charity Golf Classic to benefit the Boston Children's Hospital.
Cannons players Marty Bowes, Sean Lawton, Mike Maggio, Mitch Belisle and Coach Murphy were crushing 230 plus yard flings with their new FlingSticks from PlusOne Sports. Here's a video of them going for gold after the tourney at Granite Links Golf Course in Quincy, Mass.
Thanks Cannons for a great event and a great cause!
October 27, 2015 1 min read
The BBJ reports on the promise of FlingGolf for athletes and golf courses worldwide!
Read the article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2015/10/26/will-this-massachusetts-made-sport-give-a-boost-to.html