Connecting Golfers To Golfers and Golfers to Brands with Cactus Golf Club

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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830: The Social Media landscape for golf is an enigma that has baffled many entrepreneurs. Matt Ericksen and his buddy think they’ve come up with a solution. Cactus Golf Club utilizes a private FaceBook group so that golfers from around the world can connect with one another, but it also provides up to 40% off on specialty golf brands so that you can find the best and the coolest gear all in one place. But there’s more! They even have golf trainings and video tips, golf lessons, and prize giveaways. Find them at CatcusGolfClub.comVote for Golf Smarter as your favorite golf podcast! Golf Smarter is one of only 8 golf podcasts on the shortlist of golf podcasts in the first ever Sports Podcast Awards! Vote for us before March1 at https://sportspodcastawards.com/categories/9This episode is brought to you by DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter. Golf Smarter listeners get a 7 day free trial and 15% off your membership with coupon code ‘GolfSmarter’. Why spend thousands on a gym membership that doesn’t focus on the best exercises for golfers? Join the thousands of golfers worldwide who do the 15-20 minute dynamic stretching workouts that are completely focused on improving your flexibility and mobility for golf. Our host, Fred Greene, went from a 11hcp to a 9hcp in just 3 months doing DynamicGolfers workouts each morning. In less than a year of doing it multiple times each week, he’s worked his way down to an 8! They have hundreds of workout sessions so you’ll never get bored doing the same routine. Try it free for 7 days and see immediate impact. https://DynamicGolfers.com/golfsmarter.This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 146 we speak with golf course architect Chuck Ermisch about golf course development and design as it gets more difficult to take advantage of limited opportunities to create new courses. Be part of the podcast! Record our episode intro from your phone, and get a year long membership to Dynamic Golfers. Write to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com and tell us that you want to play. We’ll assign you an episode number and a script to record for the intro of the show. If we air your intro, you’ll win!For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What we do is we partner with golf brands large and small, and what they do essentially is they offer exclusive deals to our members.
0:06.3	So if they've got promotions running that they run, our members save money on top of that.
0:11.2	We partner with Blue Tees Golf, Rangefinders, and then we partner with Rapsoto, so they have other mobile launch monitors.
0:17.8	You have your normal traditional track man that you have in indoor simulators.
0:21.3	This one connects to your phone or an iPad and it tells you everything from your shape of your shot
0:26.8	to the ball speed. A lot of technology in that one as well. We've got apparel companies,
0:32.2	grunkdolferers. We've got a pullout golf shop who have offer everything, golf balls to shoes, to apparel. We've got a company-out golf shop who have offered everything, golf balls to shoes to apparel.
0:39.4	We've got a company called Tyler Golf bags.
0:41.8	We try and get essentially everything that a golfer would need.
0:45.5	Hi, this is Peter Riley from Cape Shank in Victoria, Australia, and I play at the National Golf Club.
0:51.9	Golf Smarter number 830.
0:54.3	Congratulations, Peter. You've just earned a year-long membership to dynamic golfers by
0:59.2	introducing today's episode. That was easy. Stay tuned to hear how you can get one for yourself.
1:07.1	Connecting Golfers to Golfers and Golfers to Brand brands on Cactus Golf Club with Matt Erickson.
1:14.0	This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:24.6	Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Matt. Thank you, Fred. I'm very glad to be on.
1:32.5	Well, it's good to have you on. This is an interesting idea that you are presenting to us today.
1:38.4	So first off, the Cactus Golf Club, give me the elevator pitch. What is the cactus golf club? Absolutely. I'll start
1:45.9	from the beginning. I'll start from my buddy and I who's starting it, why we started it into what we're
1:50.9	doing today. Oh, no, no, no. You only got 30 seconds, dude. I'm on an elevator. I'm a busy man. If I want
1:57.0	more information, I'll ask. Give me the elevator pitch. Let's do it. Door just closed.
2:01.7	So essentially what we do is we partner with golf brands large and small. So we've got partners like Blue Tees Golf, Rhapsodal Golf, some on a larger end. And then we've got people like Grunkdolfer, some smaller apparel businesses. And what they do essentially is they offer exclusive deals to our members. So if they've got promotions running that they run, we say our members save money on top of
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