It Started With a $50 Mistake

Freezing Nebraska winter, early 2023. We were restless college buddies, broke and bored from too much Rocket League.

I ordered a "viral" indoor chipping game off TikTok. Fifty bucks. Velcro balls, cardboard turf. It felt nothing like golf.

The $50 "viral" chipping mat. We knew golf deserved better.

So We Grabbed Some Flower Pots

Once the ground thawed, I went to the backyard, flipped a blue flower pot upside down, and started chipping at it.

Eamon came out with another pot. Boom—we were playing back and forth, laughing, talking trash, accidentally getting way better at our short game.

Backyard sessions with flipped flower pots.

Next day was Friday, so obviously there were brews involved. We dragged it to the front yard and made up a scoring system: one point for hitting the pot, three for beer, five if you knock it off.

Pretty soon the whole block wanted in. We called it Chip Beer.

The original Chip Beer sketch. Triangles, drinks, chaos.

We Played It Everywhere

For the next two years, it became our signature move. Friends' farms. Beach trips. Lake weekends. Anywhere with open space, we were chippin' and chirpin'.

We never planned to build a brand. But in July 2025, everything changed.

The Moment We Knew

Lake McConaughy — the moment it became real.

When non-golfers are playing a golf game for hours at a lake party, you know you've got something real.

12 Prototypes Later

We hiked up our boots and went all in. Spent months designing, breaking, rebuilding.

We had no clue how to build a product. But we knew triangles don't lie—simple, stable, iconic.

Early wood triangle cuts in the garage.

Foam board. High-density polyurethane. Birch plywood. Every hinge from Menards. Rubber-dipped edges. Broke half of it. Started again.

Then came the breakthrough: it needed to fold flat.

The fold-flat breakthrough.

When we tested the first foldable version and heard that satisfying "thunk" from a clean strike, Eamon goes, "ohhh yeah, that'll do."

We looked at each other and grinned. That's when we filed the provisional patent.

The final design. Patent-pending, trunk-ready, built for real golf.

Why ChipShotz Actually Works

Most "golf games" are darts with a backswing. You stand in one spot, hit into a net. It's fine, but it doesn't feel like golf.

ChipShotz is different.

It's 3D, dynamic, portable. You can attack from anywhere. If your opponent's shot rolls into a divot? Tough luck.

Our favorite rule is simple: "Play it where it lies." Off the slope, out of the mulch, behind a chair. It's golf in its truest form—creativity, precision, recovery.

And here's the kicker: it actually makes you better. After a week of playing, our short game was noticeably sharper.

ChipShotz turns real-club, real-ball practice into a game you can play anywhere—backyard, park, beach, even while waiting on slow groups.

For golfers, it's legit practice. For everyone else, it's instant chaos.

Who We Are

Andrew and Eamon, ChipShotz founders.

We're Andrew Hoover and Eamon Sully from Omaha, Nebraska.

We met playing high school soccer, roomed together at Creighton University, and both came out of business school wanting to build something of our own.

ChipShotz is our first physical product. Every prototype, photo, and video came out of our garages and living rooms.

If you back this project, you're backing two first-time founders who are all in.

Where We're At Now

The fold system is patent-pending. The design is locked. We're working with local Omaha manufacturers to produce the first 250 units.

Small-batch is more expensive, but it means we control quality, avoid random overseas factories, and ship faster.

Each ChipShotz set includes:

• Two foldable Chipyramids (4-second setup)
• Official rules & score card
• A game that works literally anywhere

Estimated delivery: June 2026 (Wave One in April).