Discoveries at the 2025 Colorado Golf Expo
If you went to the Colorado Golf Expo at the Colorado Convention Center, you’re no doubt busy planning an itinerary for one of the many golf destinations on hand – Greater Zion, maybe, Alabama’s many options, the Arizona Hideaway Collection or, closer to home, Mesquite, NV, or a stay-and-play in Espanola, NM, featuring Black Mesa Golf Club.
I was also struck by the products I saw at the Expo from Colorado innovators who wanted to reach the golf audience. Here are five that offered something different enough to pique the curiosity of the fellow attendees roaming the aisles.
ASTRAL PUTTERS: What the Denver-based son-father founding team of Astral has created will warm the cockles of every heart that has beaten faster at the thought of getting yet another new putter. That’s because one self-fitting Astral putter bestows many options for adjustments, from shaft to lie angles to toe hang to interchangeable face and body styles. There’s potential for confusion, of course, but check out the videos and instructions on the website for clarity.
FESTA SPORTS: What Astral is doing for the putter, Festa is doing for apparel. With the tagline “Activewear For Every Body,” fashion industry veteran Anne Fanganello’s Littleton shop offers a collection of varied designs – nine different skorts, for example – in sizes XXS-3X that it can customize for fabric, length and even pocket. Fanganello originally was thinking tennis, but the traffic at her Expo booth delivered a green light for golf, too.
SAUCE GOLF: If customization and versatility seem to be the trend in Colorado golf products, Sauce definitely got the memo. Or, maybe Jeff Greenswag wrote the memo, creating the zip towel. It’s custom printable, sure, but it can clean your clubs while staying wet all day, or keep your clubs dry by repelling rain, or serve you a beverage. Well, maybe not serve, but with a zip or two here and there it becomes a cooler.
SOSS MUSHROOMS: Sauce’s homonym cooks up a little something in Colorado for golfers from the newly legal magic mushroom. Its Vitality tincture of energy drops for athletes is formulated with cordyceps mushrooms, which has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine. The health benefits are believed to boost energy levels, reduce fatigue and soothe that post-round inflammation. And for golfers whose problems are all above the neck, there’s a tincture for focus made from Lion’s Mane.
TASPEN’S ORGANICS: The Baruch family’s many concoctions include relief for such golfer hazards as dry skin, cracked lips and insect attacks. But probably the star of the show for 18-holers was the Magnesium No More Aches Relief Cream, promising relief from tension, swelling, stiffness and – with the addition of magnesium – brain fog and muscle cramps. Emily told me to opt for the roll-ons, applied to the bottom of the feet, for the fastest and most concentrated results.
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Veteran journalist Susan Fornoff has written about golf for publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, ColoradoBiz magazine and her own GottaGoGolf.com. She provides the voice of “Molly McMulligan,” the CGA’s on-course consultant on golf for fun. Email her at mollymcmulligan@gmail.com.
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