Ship Sticks will pick up and deliver clubs to more than 3,500 participating golf clubs or hotels around the world. Courtesy Ship Sticks
Picture this. You and your buddies spend months planning a vacation to a premier golf destination you’ve never played, like Bandon Dunes. Your excitement is at a fever pitch as you check in your 50-pound travel bag at the airport. But when you touch down in Oregon, your bag doesn’t because it got lost in transit. So now what? Jonathan Marsico and Nick Coleman, co-founders of the company Ship Sticks, had a thought.
“There has to be another way,” said Marsico, executive chairman at Ship & Play. “Can we travel more efficiently and spend less time waiting at the baggage carousel?”
In 2011, Marsico and Coleman founded Ship Sticks with the mission to “make golf travel simpler, easier, and more affordable.” Now, any golfer can easily ship their golf bags directly from their door to one of more than 3,500 partnered golf clubs or nearby hotels across the world at a cost that’s competitive with airline fees...