Hi, this is Lucas, and I am planning to visit 30 golf courses in Spain within the next 60 days.
It might sound crazy – and it probably is. However, choosing to travel with an RV makes it a lot less crazy than walking through New Zealand.
So, how did I end up deciding on this?
A little over a year ago, I found myself with plenty of time but also some money for the first time. Two months later, I came up with the idea of presenting golf courses and the game of golf from the ball's perspective for social media marketing purposes. The only catch was that I had never flown a drone before, let alone been proficient at golf with an HCPI of 51.3. But I enjoy working remotely, studied Management & Marketing, always wanted to play golf (see @golfluenza on Instagram), and, well, who doesn't love flying?
After a month on the PlayStation and obtaining the license to fly drones, I was allowed to test and practice my idea at Golf in Wall. Filming others worked too, but doing all the work 100% by yourself was the most fun – just don't catch the drone when landing and cut your thumb. Not a good idea if you want to make a business out of playing golf while flying a drone.
After healing and four weeks later, I finally started a one-month training for video editing – eight hours a day. Again, without ever having edited a video before. For the final project, I scored 98/100 (without the mandatory task of color grading) for Golfclub Talheimer Hof. Here, I could also practice how to present hole by hole, shot by shot (have a look: fpv-golf.com/portfolio).
By the end of the course, I realized that I still had time to submit a business plan and applied for a "Gründungszuschuss." I traveled back to Berlin to keep my promise to finish a couple of videos and a course presentation for Golf in Wall. This time, after five days sleeping in my old van (which didn't make it all the way back with a perfectly running engine), I managed to at least cover more or less half of the 18-hole course.
While it's getting colder in Germany, I founded my second business, got up and running, but still was missing a portfolio of a golf course. Luckily, and yes, of course, without this in the back of my mind since day one, my former flatmate from Stuttgart owns and operates a small nine-hole golf course on Tenerife. Escaping cold and grey Germany for four weeks, I managed to get most of the shots that I wished for - have a look at my Instagram: @fpvgolf.
Having saved up for the upcoming trip by not paying rent over the last six months (and making lots of other cutbacks on a regular 32-year-old's lifestyle), crashing lots of couches (not drones luckily), it's now one more time all in with those savings, trying to find my first paying customers.
Let's see whether it is feasible to be a golfer, drone pilot, marketer, editor, and nomad to present golf courses within one day in the best possible light.
So, today I rented an RV with off-campers.com - next stop: San Sebastian. Ordizia to be precise. Visiting an old friend. First things first.
Keeping you posted.
Best,
Lucas
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