Justin Hales

We built Golf Daze to fix something most people quietly hate: corporate team building.

You know the drill — the awkward trust falls, the escape room nobody asked for, the "fun" activity that somehow feels like more work. We wanted to build the opposite: an activity people are genuinely excited about, that works for a 22-year-old grad and a 55-year-old exec equally, and that takes zero effort from the person organising it.

So we built a mobile golf simulator experience for teams.

Here's how it works. We bring a fully-managed, professional-grade golf simulator to your office, offsite, or event venue. Our trained operator sets it up, runs the session, and packs it down. Your team plays — competing on famous courses, taking on closest-to-the-pin challenges, talking trash over leaderboards — and nobody needs to have ever held a club. The tech levels the playing field so beginners and golfers compete fairly. No green fees, no travel, no experience required.

But the part I'm most proud of is the platform underneath it.

Golf Daze isn't just an event company — it's a software business. We've built the operating system that makes the whole thing run: digital waivers with integrated payments, tour and package booking, voucher redemption, automated event management, and a franchise operator portal that lets new operators launch their own territory with the systems already built for them. Every booking, waiver, and session flows through one stack. That's what lets us deliver a consistent experience whether the event is in Newcastle or anywhere our operator network reaches.

We're rolling out across Australia through a franchise model, so the same professional setup shows up wherever your team is.

What we're launching today is the booking and event experience — the front door to all of it. You can browse formats, book a session, sign waivers, and pay in one flow. Behind it sits everything we've built to make corporate golf events effortless to run at scale.

Who it's for:

• Office managers and EAs who plan team events (and dread it)
• People & Culture teams wanting something inclusive that actually lands
• Anyone organising an offsite, conference activity, Christmas party, or client day

Why we think it matters: team building shouldn't be something people endure. Golf turns out to be a near-perfect format — competitive but social, skill-optional, and genuinely fun. We just removed every barrier (the course, the cost, the gatekeeping) and wrapped it in software that makes it scale.

We'd love your feedback — especially on the booking flow and what would make you actually try it. And if you've ever sat through a bad team building day, tell me about it. That's literally why this exists.