Monday, November 24, 2008

The Cloth Caddy

We just found the perfect golf towel and we are taking it on the road! The last thing we want is a towel flapping in the wind. Sure, traffic will see you better with a flapping towel, but you will stop traffic when it gets caught in one of your wheels and you go down.

Alpine Innovation's Cloth Caddy is a 12" towel that packs tightly into a neoprene pouch and attaches to your golf bag. We are getting it branded with the TowCaddy logo! We are also going to get a bunch of their "Spudz" to use and give away at the events we go to so look for us and get your hands on a Spudz. I am really digging the Spudz name too, having grown up in the heart of spud country in Ammon Idaho. (Did you get the whole "digging" reference? My friend Mark Trunnell would like that joke.)

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Come along for the ride!

Here is the TowCaddy launch calendar (as opposed to the lunch calendar which is far more appetizing) Why not come along for the ride! Literally! Soon we will be publishing a detailed launch schedule. If you want to join in the riding, golfing, or both, email us at info@towcaddy.com.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Charlie Birney is going with us to GIS!

I have some catching up to do. Last week I traveled to Washington DC (Chad, Allison + the kids, thanks for giving me a bed to sleep in and letting me see Emril the chef.)

Anyway, while there, I met with Charlie Birney from The Brick Companies and President of the National Golf Course Owners Association. He is a real green guy and has been a big advocate of TowCaddy from nearly our beginning. He is also a pretty cool artist and creates each of his business cards by doing these great drawings on them. I framed his business card and have it on the wall next to illustrations by Richard Hull, Gary Baseman and Howard Fullmer. Here is the link to his blog! There are some great photos of the floating green he created for charity golf tournaments he gets involved with.

The NGCOA is one of the premier partners of the Golf Industry Show where we will be officially launching the TowCaddy. Charlie is going to be riding with us from Pensacola, Florida to New Orleans (we'll post an itinerary later). He is also trying to get a few others from the NGCOA of the GIS to join in too! The more the merrier!

First Launch Partner along for the Ride

As we get closer to the Golf Industry Show in New Orleans, the coolest bicycle in the world has joined us to contribute bikes for the launch. That isn't just hyperbole. The Delta 7 road bike, the Ascend was named 2008 product of the year at Interbike.

The bike we will be riding on the launch is the Arantix. Now while I am a roadie, this mountain bike is pretty spectacular. The carbon fiber/kevlar frame weighs in at just over 2 lbs. But even more, it's isotruss frame is amazing to look at. You can bet though that for the 200 plus mile launch ride, we will be using slicks and bar ends.

It is getting a lot of good press. We hope to as well!