Owner, Dave Sadlowsky is Minnesota's only Club Fitter, Synthetic Green Builder and PGA Professional.
Dave saw the importance, and the need, to provide golfers with custom-fit clubs back in 1996. Originally, he made a new set of clubs for himself and his wife. Following that, was a stream of family and friends and his basement soon turned into a clubmaking shop.
Dave realized his clubmaking hobby needed to grow into a business, so in February of 2001 he established ForeEver Golf, LLC.
Another interest was to install a maintenance free synthetic turf golf green in his backyard. He wanted a private practice area, family entertainment area, and a putter/wedge testing area for his clients. After two years of reseach, Dave (along with the help of his wife and a few friends) built a 450sf putting green, three tee boxes and a sand trap in his backyard. After some word-of-mouth advertising, a few other projects came along and another service was added to ForeEver Golf, LLC.
In February of 2004, Dave left his full-time job as a commercial contruction project manager in order to focus on his company. He moved his basement club shop to The Ponds at Battle Creek Golf Course in Maplewood, MN. He served as an Assistant Golf Professional until the end of the 2007 season. In March of 2008, Dave relocated to Olympic Hills Golf Club in Eden Prairie, MN. In January of 2009, he was elected to membership in the PGA of America.
A little more history...
When I was a wee lad growing up in a small central Minnesota town; I saw my future, but didn't know it at the time. I didn't start to play golf until I was about 12 years old, but prior to that, I became a clubmaker and a backyard green builder.
A little skeptical? Please read on.
I was an imaginative kid when it came to building things from scrap materials in and around our home. There was a surplus of wooden snow fence slats in our garage, so I took one and made it into a crude golf club (equivalent to about a 7-iron). I started wacking wiffle balls around the yard using trees for targets. I wanted a more realistic target so I compacted the sand in my tractor tire sand box so it was nice and smooth, buried a dixie cup in the middle, and shoved my old banana seat bike flag in the cup. I had the only golf "green" in the neighborhood!
Little did I know at that time that someday my greatest passions would be building custom fit golf clubs and sand-filled, synthetic turf putting greens.
As an adult in my mid twenties, I took a basic clubmaking class in order to learn the skills to make a set of clubs for myself and my wife. I became an instant believer of the idea of custom club fitting and have grown a small basement hobby into a full service club shop now located Olympic Hills Golf Club in Eden Prairie, MN.
One of the most frustrating parts of my golf game was my my putting. The majority of the shots are played on the green and it is the part of the game that people spend the least amount of practice time. I didn't like to practice that part of my game because it meant getting in the car and going to a local course where I'd rather be smacking balls. I had a useless, weed infested backyard that needed a maintenance free landscape, so after much research, I transformed it into a short game practice facility using a in-filled, synthetic turf system. Now I can chip and putt in my own backyard with my family at any time. The idea of creating maintence free golf landscapes for other people seemed like a good compliment to custom club fitting....so....as they say, "The rest is history".
It's a wonderful combination to be able to help golfers by providing them with quality golf clubs that fit their swing, and with maintenance free golf greens that IMPROVE their game and ENHANCE their property and family time.
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