Sunday, July 19, 2009

Hello and welcome!

I would like introduce myself I am Michael Mazza, I'm the GM of Bridgeburg Golf and we are the inventors and manufacturers of the Turf Chopper. The Turf Chopper is the latest in golf cart technology. It is currently the only single rider golf cart that can convert in seconds to an electric walk behind personal cart caddy. I would like to get your honest feedback on this cool new product.
This is amature video that I shot on a couple of company golf outings actually I was playing hooky so don't tell anyone.

Also you can have a look at the Bridgeburg Golf website for stats and specs, pricing and more: http://www.bridgeburggolf.com/. Feel free to also offer your feedback on the website because I made it.



Let me tell you the Turf Chopper back story.
Tom the Inventor of the Turf Chopper and president of Bridgeburg Golf was suffering from a back injury which prevented him from playing any golf what so ever, his passion. He was unable to walk 18 holes and could not get in and out of a traditional golf cart without intense pain. After being away from the game for a couple of years and being a well know Canadian inventor he started development of an electric walk behind personal caddy system that could convert in seconds to a single rider golf cart after 10 or so holes when his back would start to seize up on him.

In 2006 he created the Turf Chopper, not as a commercial product either but as a golfing aid for himself to use, however, every time he took it out on the course to use he would draw a crowd of eager people wanting to know more about it, could he make them one and maybe get a test drive. People to this day still come running across fairways to check them out. One fine spring day while Tom was playing around of golf with another fellow Fort Erie native, Dave Watson, a friend and local entrepreneur, decide to create the Turf Chopper brand and develop an affordable priced personal caddy and cart system for all golfer demographics so then was the birth of the Bridgeburg Golf Corporation.

Summer of 2006 prototypes were actually build in Dave's 5 car garage at his home by Tom and young "Mike the Geek" . Mike joined the team as a 22 year old walking encyclopedia who had collaborated with Tom on other projects in the past. Really smart kid and was an vital part of the creation of the Turf Chopper.
Early fall of 2006 I, and I'm not going to tell my company nick name here, got involved with the setting up and company structuring end of Bridgeburg Golf Corp. I began to creating and build the administration systems and business model.




As the prototypes evolved so did our manufacturing needs, labour needs and space requirements but off market development and extensive testing of the Turf Chopper continued full time and in June of 2007 The Bridgeburg Golf manufacturing facility opened their doors and began the manufacturing development, labour training and test marketing phase at our current home town Fort Erie head quarters.


I could go on all day about the amazing response we got during all of our test marketing events but this one I'll share is one I found interesting; The Golf Channel was advertising additions for a reality series that they were producing called "For Inventors Only". A reality show designed to find the next big golf invention. We seen that auditions were coming to New Jersey, which is only a short 5.5 hour drive from Fort Erie so we decided to take a Turf Chopper down and see what their response would be. Well, the producers of the show loved it!! They invited us to participate in their program. Unfortunately though, after a couple of months of contract negotiations neither party were able to come to an acceptable agreement so we had no choice but to decline the offer. I still sometimes wounder what the effects of that kind of exposure could have had on a young Bridgeburg Golf company.
So, after all the test marketing results and the Turf Chopper tweaks, modification, manufacturing and company stream lining Bridgeburg Golf officially launch the Turf Chopper to the public at the 2008 PGA merchandise trade show in Orlando Florida and what a response. The response from that show alone was incredible, we established distribution lanes with several foreign countries, also took on sales reps from all over North America.

To be continued...









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