Mark and Michael Dries had spent seven years running a successful software and application design agency together when conversations on the golf course with a successful technology entrepreneur became a million-dollar plan for a company based on the sport they all love.

The brothers’ company, Mirk, had run augmented and virtual reality projects for clients ranging from chocolate maker Cadbury to phone maker Oppo and the NSW government. But the idea of building a blockchain-based golf company took root, and entrepreneur Clive Mayhew has pitched in with a $1.2 million seed investment to help make it work.