Castaway Golf Wins Top Prize At Breakthru

By Elizabeth Fraser, Daily Gleaner | Link to original article

Sometimes it pays to start your own business and three New Brunswick entrepreneurs proved just that.

Three out of five recipients received a much-needed cash infusion into their enterprise with a $250,000 investment to start their own business at Thursday night’s Breakthru Awards Dinner at the Fredericton Convention Centre, put on by The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF), with over 500 people from across the province in attendance. The gala event invested $750,000 in the winning startups.

Castaway Golf was the winner of Thursday night’s entrepreneurship awards.

Their business developed a new machine that will dredge and clean almost all lost golf balls at the bottom of the pond. Technology sorts the balls into the 200 different models so they can be repackaged and resold by brand and kind.

“As a kid I loved collecting golf balls,” said Matt Vance, who visited golf courses across the Maritimes this past summer for the local business. “It was my favourite thing to do. I went to the golf course and didn’t even golf, I’d just look for golf balls…I met a diver one day and he was getting more golf balls than me, went home and told my father and said ‘I wanted those golf balls too.’

From there, Vance and his father Kevin sat in their garage… continue reading on telegraphjournal.com >>