History & Mission

Golf Ventures LLC is the entity that professional golfer Jaacob Bowden, PGA has used to frame his journey through golf, something that began for him in 2003 as a 27-year-old average amateur golfer.
 
At the core has emerged two pillars.
 
1) Aspiration
2) Sharing
 
Inside of Jaacob has been a curiosity, or aspiration, to discover the answer to the question of “How good can I be in golf?”
 
This drive to unlock his potential lead Jaacob to rigorously research, study, and go down many different pathways in both golf and life. Along the way Jaacob explored his inner self and became an expert across multiple disciplines including but not limited to golf, fitness, and personal growth.

He also found out that, although golf is supposed to be a game of integrity, the golf industry runs ramped with various combinations of poorly worded, contradictory, low quality produced instruction and training advice from people and entities with conflicts of interest in competitive pay-to-play and inequitable "winner-take-all on the backs of others" type systems that incentivize and reward extreme, unhealthy, and unbalanced behaviors like egoic and greedy desires to scheme and manipulate for the chance at fame, attention, money, power and more. Many tournament pros don't even like playing golf that much.

It all feels so dirty.

Where are the rewards and incentives for true love and passion?

Many times, Jaacob has contemplated walking away, but that would be a shame for all that he has learned to disappear.

Instead, as best as circumstances allow, he intends to continue forward with his question while sharing thoughtfully for the betterment of others, the industry, and the world at large.

Values

Curiosity
A question of this level of aspiration requires maintaining and cultivating a certain interest, courage, strength, and overall willingness to holistically explore, research, and analyze the boundaries of possibility.

Improvement
There is a focus on what moves the needle and drastically transforms performance, quickly discarding what doesn’t work or isn’t practical. Data is validating and comforting. Efficiency is necessary. Innovation is often required.

Sharing
It’s important to be willing to stand out and pass on the knowledge and wisdom, even in the face of criticism and lower level thinking and states of being. Simplicity, clarity of communication, quality, attention to detail, and beautiful aesthetics are all a focus of Jaacob's recommendations, services, and products to help people play their best game.

Joy
For as long as we are here, we might as well try to remember to have fun, stopping to smell the roses sometimes.

Integrity
As best as possible, foster a space of honesty, transparency, authenticity, diversity, equity, inclusion, collaboration, sustainability, health and life balance, presence, respect for oneself and others for where they are at in their journeys, and the like…even if that doesn't maximize profit.


Ventures


Some of Jaacob's ventures…



Swing Man Golf Logo

Amidst the challenging circumstances of funding his career as a tournament professional, Jaacob had been frequently getting asked variations of three primary things.

1) How was he able to rapidly transform from a slicing 14-index golfer to a pro shooting tournament rounds in the 60s and 70s?

2) What was he doing to pioneer golf fitness and swing speed training and win the Pinnacle Distance Challenge and qualifiers for the World Long Drive Championships that included a grid record 421-yard drive?

3) What did he learn as part of his foundational experience from Dan Shauger and the Guinness World Record holding long driver Mike Austin, who hit a 515-yard drive in 1974 in the US National Senior Open at the age of 64?


Hoping to have it help him continue his explorations, Jaacob used this opportunity to launch an online business in October 2007 called Swing Man Golf as a vehicle to share his knowledge.

The business has gone through multiple iterations over the years, but today Swing Man Golf has garnered millions of views and led to Jaacob becoming one of the Top 100 most popularly sought out coaches online and a Golf Fitness Association of America (GFAA) multiple award winning trainer.



Sterling Irons Logo

Sterling Irons Single Length Irons

In contemplating ways to be more consistent, Jaacob questioned why golf clubs were of varying lengths and weights designed to be used from different setup positions. It seemed like having them be one single length and weight to use from one setup spot would simplify complexities and lead to greater consistency. This inquiry led Jaacob to finding a few small companies that made single length irons and wedges, and he decided to give them a try.

After all, conceptually, the idea made sense.

After a short period of adjustment, Jaacob’s approach game improved drastically, and he shot his first tournament round as a pro in the 60s with them. Jaacob was hooked and he got his index down to +5.8 with a personal best round of 64 (-8) in the period after the financial crash of 2008.

But the USGA changed the groove rules for the clubs in 2010, rendering his golf clubs not legal for play in his USGA sanctioned professional tour events. With the existing single length companies unwilling to update their clubs at the time, Jaacob took it upon himself to create his own brand, one that improved upon the performance & design, quality, subjective aesthetics, and legality of what had been available.

After 2.5 years of design and development, in April of 2016, Jaacob revolutionized the single length iron market when he launched the first generation of Sterling Irons®, which he sold for 5 years.




LoveHasAHomeHere

We have experienced unprecedented times of often uncomfortable separation in our world, from politics to religion and everything in-between, even amongst our dear neighbors, long-time friends, family members, and more.

In walking around Washington, DC, Jaacob saw a lot of yard signs that said, “Hate Has No Home Here”.

Although he realizes that the idea is to combat hate, it’s also important to understand that when one fights against something, you actually help propagate it further.

Rather than focus on what you DON'T want, it's better to focus on what you DO want.

So, the “Love Has A Home Here” project is a way of helping promote and shine what we do want…the light of love.

More info is forthcoming!



Team


Detroit-based Jaacob Bowden, PGA swings his driver

Jaacob Bowden, PGA
Coach, Trainer, & Professional Golfer

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Learn more about Jaacob at JaacobBowden.com.



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Golf Ventures LLC (Mail Only)
1930 Village Center Cir # 3-5740
Las Vegas, NV, 89134-6299
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2658 Porter St
Detroit, MI 48216-1738
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