When Clint Jarvis over at gottaGolf invited me to join the crew for a round of golf at Turner Field, I thought he had his sports mixed up. Clint was indeed being serious as a company called Stadium Links is transforming ball parks and football fields around the country into golf courses. Clint had also assembled an all star crew of social media "Influencers" for our 8pm Saturday evening tee time.
- Karin Hart - Karin is an accomplished Instagrammer and amateur golfer.
- Ryan Rustand - Better known on the internet as Coach Rusty, Ryan is a Golf Channel Academy Instructor and trick shot artist extraordinaire.
- Fiamma Felitch - Fiamma is an aspiring LPGA star and former Big Break standout.
- Joshua Kelley - Remember that video of the guy popping a champagne bottle with a chip shot? That's Josh, he's good, real good.
- Chelsea Pezzola - Chelsea is riding the road to the LPGA Tour and doing some modeling along the way.
Karin and the gang would warm things up at Atlanta's Top Golf, doing whatever this is.
After rocking some trick shots at Top Golf, the crew would head over to Turner Field, to play some baseball with golf clubs.
gottaGolf founder, Clint, starts things off on the 1st hole at Turner Field.
Mr. Holein1Trickshots, Joshua Kelley would not find his hole in one, but he would find the green.
Chelsea Pezzola mixes up baseball and golf, in the classic basegolf pose.
After a successful outing at Turner Field, we headed out to Big Canoe Golf Club for an encore round of golf on an actual golf course. Coach Rusty and the team hammered out some trick shots and we rolled in some birdies.
Big Canoe features a ton of drastic elevation drops. Here we see, Justin Estes bomb one 300+ and almost take out Karin Hart and Coach Rusty on the fly.
The rules for Stadium Links golf are simple. Each hole has a specified green that you are hitting to out on the field. If you hit it on the green, that's a par, miss the green, that's a bogey. If you hit it within the circle around the pin, that's a birdie. Stadium Links also gives any golfer that makes a hole in one a cool $100.
Chelsea Pezzola and Fiamma Felitch do some Turner Field golf modeling.
That sand in the outfield is real sand. A nice touch.
Karin Hart hits a ground rule double with her 9 iron.
The gottaGolf boys are excited about the tee shot on the 9th hole. Hats off to Karin Hart for capturing the magic. A bigger hats off to Clint and the gottaGolf team for hosting a fantastic outing.
That's Karin Hart with the hand off from the golf cart, Coach Rusty proceeds to do his thing and Clint finishes things off with some tracer technology. Be sure to visit gottaGolf and get in on the action today and make your very own tracer videos.