Abraham du Plessis
Cape Town (ZAF)
Role(s):
Private
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Location:
Cape Town
Industry:
Sports/Recreation
Description:
Developing a device for the golf market. It is revolusionary and replaces a current device (with no similarities to the current device). It is not ball or club (i.e. not subject to approval by R&A). Each golfer must have one. It is aimed at the corporate market as a corporate gift. It has ample space for branding. There is room for it in the retail market, but I think corporate gifts will be the big market i.e. banks, oil companies, Insurers, golf equipment manufacturers, etc. We have approached an award winning South African design engineer to refine our current prototype. He has estimated the costs at about $40 - $50k to redesing/ refine and present final prototype. I am convinced that the new device will be able to seriously penetrate the golf market (30 million golfers in US alone). I