How often does your very first dream come true?                                                                     

Hello, my name is Ron Griffin, founder of Elite Sports Promotions. I began my golf career at age 3, by playing with a golf club my father unraveled from a tree at the William Land Park Golf Course near our inner city home in Sacramento, California. He is my inspiration, a winner of multiple local championships and a former participant in the National Public Links Tournament.

Golfing by age 6, after lessons from my father Lavon “Ed” Griffin and instructor Syeed "Cy" Wahab, I quickly became adept at putting. It wasn’t long until I began tinkering with the improvement of golf putters, using one of my modified creations to gain an honorable mention in Sacramento’s 1970 Junior Golf Championship. I continued the lessons of golf and life with my father; we pursued the credo “good luck follows hard work” striving to become golf’s first black father/son super team. I cherish those days as a Jr. Golf member. In fact I still possess my first Jr. Golf card. Unfortunately the dreams of superstardom on the PGA Tour were not in my destiny. Life continued and I started focusing on the science of golf putters, using aerospace technology and CAD to reevaluate shape, balances and alignment. Then applying a CNC milling process to bring the new golf putting head to life, I invented the Touch Putter.                                                                      

As with any business we needed a cost effective way to get product into peoples hands without the big money or resources of a major manufacture like Ping, Calloway or Titleist. With the help of Ken Morton JR and SR we were soon selling golf clubs in one of the ten best golf shops in the country and doing fine until...the two ball white hot hit the streets, changed the complextion of the marketplace, and outsold every other putter manufacturer combined!                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                        Fortunately for us, I found out very early in our efforts to market the club that consumers who would try our clubs in head to head tests against the major manufactures ended up buying our club about half as often. Armed with this knowledge we based our marketing strategey on innovative and inexpensive ways of getting consumers to try, they buy.                                                                                                                                                                            

We began involving ourselves in golf-related events for charity, corporate team building and pleasure. We gave participants an opportunity to try our putters while providing them as prizes for the events. During the first years of the events we sold all of the putters that we manufactured and as success our events grew we invited other manufactures and businesses interested in high demographic consumers with disposable income to join us.

Today, we are one of Northern California's most innovative and influential sports marketing partners helping businesses like yours reach nearly 2 out of every 3 adult with a wide array of events, publications, websites and other products to target your best potential customers, members, and supporters delivering maximum results with minimum risk.    

We are more than happy to discuss the specific situation to meet your company's goals and objectives in creating or sponsoring events.

Your support in any way is welcome!                                                          

Please contact:
Ron Griffin
Event Coordinator
(408) 287-7295 (O)
(650) 238-8459 (C)
Email: rongriffin@elitesportspromotions.net