BirdieBall.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Cool Colorado Stuff - Brief Article

BIRDIEBALL: "There's this disconnect in golf," said John Breaker, CEO of BirdieBall. "It's nothing like baseball where a father and son can go play catch in the park." Looking for a way to change that, John and his engineer father Richard came up with a high-density polyethylene ring that flies and--unlike a whiffle ball--spins just like a golf ball, but carries only 40 yards and bounces harmlessly off windows. It's catching on: The company made 150,000 BirdieBalls at a Loveland plant and has shipped about half of them since April. The younger Breaker has an infomercial in the works, a myriad of marketing ideas, and, thanks to BirdieBall, a...