Golf Ventures

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.