Recently in Vision Category

Vision wanted to show the audience that their product was designed by and in Australia, as that means quite a lot.

So I climbed into my digital drawing board.. and came up with a view version and after a healthy and always important "tug of war" about what to achieve with the customer "vision", in most cases Mr. Wayne Bosley responsible of design & development, Australia had to look more Australian, but original enough to stay away from already out there versions.
Potential was there in the designs, but none of them were winners, and so I left it for a couple of days.. et Voila! Meet final result..

Really came again to a good result with Wayne, and again it took some persistence of both.. nice job!
Whipped up a 3d version for the site also:

The guys over at Australian Golf Digest magazine prolly liked our ad for the December issue so much, that they stuck a copy on a nice background and put "As Seen in Australian Golf Digest" on top of it, and send it to us at Vision :)

very proud Per ^0^

In the mean time visiongolfball.com hit the 20.000st visitors mark! That in half the time it took to get to 10k.

Came back this monday from again a full weekend in Canberra with the Australia Triple Crown
players, but most of all the Dutchies!! (Jenno, Jelle etc...)
It was a great weekend, except for my speeding ticket.. *cough* (lost points there..arrgh)

The Dutch Crew had chipped in for a place to stay and shouted me the the dinner with all the Triple Crown players! Thanks guys, that was superb!
Had a couple of great nights out with the guys, also with the local Aussie players and the Irish champs!

Monday morning I drove back to Sydney (300k), accompanied by the sisters Esther and Irene, throwing some music culture at me (AbbA & Queen:) whom I both dropped off at the Australian Youth Hostel in Sydney City!

Ive got a couple of days to recover again, and will catch up for one more time later this week.. have to give my body some rest somehow :)

Overall it was an fantastic tournament, and to me its the power of the community who makes it all happen. Going to keep my eye open to this way of playing.. its got superb potential IMO (In My Opinion)

Super credit to Jenno and Jelle for being so much of a Vision suporter, and played both many games with our vision balls! The Irish say they are going to test after the tournament season what they can do with the ball, and most of our shirts and caps were happily worn during the triple crown. The french were already playing the Xpert2 and giving them away printed with the logo of the french on it to their opponents.

Ps Jenno Wolters has updated his photos!

Got myself and VISION and the Vision UV Yellow, the first Australian Golf title:

We've played from Thursday to Saturday and an average of 3 matches a day, conform Matchplay rules. Matchplay is a very mentally though golf game, were you score a point per hole or square the hole (even) or loose the hole. This means out of 18 holes you need to win most holes.

I've met so many great people, and most of my time I spend with the dutch crew :) naming Jenno Wolters and his girlfriend Kirsten, Kirsten’s brother Niels, Jelle Wabnitz and dutch top woman player Esther Newsum. (ps all "A" Division players)

Boy did I had a good time with those guys.. pff, was great talking some plain ol dutch again.. spend most evenings after the tournament at the hotel and campsite of the guys having a few beers :P. The guys had smuggled some typical "Groningse gedroogde worst" into the country(dried sausage, bit like the south african drywors), gosh what a fantastic suprise.. half of the stack got conviscated by the customs, a shear sacrifice for the stash that made it through.. lol (Groningen 1 - Aussie customs 0 :P)

Interesting note was I played with the Vision UV Yellow in a precision golf game on an very high quality course at Terrey Hills. The ball performed really well although its more leaning towards a longer straighter game. I could stop the ball pretty much everywhere !!!!!

Other interesting note, my semi-final against a french guy was undecided after 18 holes and took 3 playoff holes and had only 5 points total, the rest was all square.. amazing great game that was, my hart was pumping at the end and shaking all over.. sunk a 6 ft put to birdie and take the win!

The final was a breeze compared to all other games.. didnt even gave the poor english (living in france) guy a chance.. after 10 holes it was 8 points for me and 2 squares.. lol he conceded obviously :)

The sunday we went with the whole crew plus Jim Judge (IRE) to explore Sydney.. again just having a few quiet beers with the crew.. lol

The crew is up to Canberra now to play the second and third leg of the Triple Crown tournament, maybe I can drive up this weekend to cheer the guys on.

Ps.. the dutch crew looooooove the vision balls YAYAY .. !!
PPs.. beating a Pro V1 player with a UV Yellow feels goooooood !!
PPPs.. sleeping with Jelle in one bed, crashed out on beer is safe.. :P

Links:
Jenno Wolters - Website - more photo's and stories !!
Jelle Wabnitz - His Pitch and Putt Course in Oostwold.
Esther Newsum - Website - more stories, photos later !!
Australian Pitch and Putt Accociation
Australia Triple Crown site

Triple Crown - Promo

Because im such a good golfer *cough* 4x !, I am going to participate in a National Championship!
owkay, owkay, owkay.. it is for Short Course Golf, aka Pitch and Put aka Par3 Golf, but nevertheless it has very serious participants and it draws world wide crowd from Australia, Canada, Ireland, France and even Holland aka The Netherlands :P !

Anyway, we got a spot offered to play as being a sponsor, as we develop and test our new balls on our local Par3 course at Terrey Hills and got involved with Short Course Golf players for testing purposes on short game needs.

Terrey Hills - Promo

The Terrey Hills Par3 Course is very much like a normal golf course, with greatly challenged smaller mostly elevated greens, but you only need a wedge and a putter to play, as its longest hole is prolly 88 meters.

So as of tomorrow, ive got a National Championship - Match Play game under my belt too.. lol well, atleast I play 4 times before I will get knocked out :). I better give myself the NickName Per "Bye" van Duijn..lol as some of them play around -10 on a round.. hmpfff.. thats atleast 10 birdies grrr..

See my draw - one dutch guy in there too :)
Website: Australian Pitch and Put Association

BTW, again..this form of golf to me has massive potential to be big every where.. it doesnt need that much space, it gives a fantastic challenge, it covers the biggest part of the normal golf, and you can facilitate it better also for night golf with lights plus you can play it in just two hours, ideal for after work or work catch up, or just with friends instead of a movie or with the partner you name it.

One of my Full page Ad was released in Australian Golf Magazine this month. They’ve put the ad in the Golf Ball Promotion section for the year, and wrapped it with a black border, just after the Wilson Staff and the Titleist NXT + Extreme on a full last page of the section!

Being completely different than all other ads and IMO killing the other ads with the gfx :P, this ad worked out really well, and with the border it works also.. YAY, very happy!

Today www.visiongolfball.com hit its 10.000 visitor mark YAY.
This is in just a view months time, and without a full online marketing scheme launched yet. We have been running some paper ads, and some magazine ads.
Last week we had a top day of above 200 unique visitors, who caught on to the vibe. We are now getting interest from other countries also like Germany, France, New Zealand and the USA!

Ive been making some new graphics for the site, and soon to implement them along with some more layout changes. I will try to get more features on the site too like a FAQ, and more NEWS, but still retrieving the data for that.
Nice milestone today.. hope we progress in the same upwards direction.

Pssst.. dont tell anybody yet :), but this is what the next generation Vision caps is going to look like. We just got the samples, and besides the white cap is looking stunning, the dark blue cap is a winner too. We've tried many cap models over time, and this one is just fantastic, sits really well on the head and also looks very good, great shape.

Yes.. I've got the white cap :P