How Coast company scored deal of a lifetime

A Gold Coast company has told of how they landed a deal making the Australian Olympic Team’s golf bags.

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A GOLD Coast company that makes the “Rolls-Royce” of golf bags is no stranger to being on the world sporting stage.

Vessel Golf Australia creates luxury golf bags for international stars such as Tiger Woods, but its latest creation has it feeling “over the moon”.

The Burleigh company produced the official golf bags for the Australian team at the Tokyo Olympics.

Elly McLean at Lakelands Golf Course with her Australian Olympic Golf Bags. Her company Vessel Golf Australia has produced all of the bags for the Olympic team as well as other nations. Picture: Glenn Hampson.

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Owner Elly Mclean said the company had worked closely with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) since 2019 when it was selected as the supplier.

“It was so important to us as an Australian company to make the Australian bags. We’re really over the moon about it,” Ms McLean said.

“We approached the Australian Olympic Committee and, with our previous work, we were selected to be the bag maker for the Australian team.

Vessel Golf Australia owner Elly McLean. Picture: Glenn Hampson.

“We have a full design team here and we worked closely with the AOC, they have certain rules and regulations, until we narrowed it down.

“The process started in 2019. We’ve been waiting since then to showcase our bag and we finally got there.”

Ms McLean said Vessel Golf produced the official bags for the Aussies and 16 other countries at this year’s Olympics.

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She said the company had made golf bags for major events including the Presidents Cup and the PGA Tour.

Vessel Golf Australia is a licensee of the limited edition Australian Olympic bag which has already been sent to customers throughout the world.

“We have the rights to sell back the bag to the general public and we’ve already had sales,” she said.

“We’ve sold one to an Australian in Texas. There’s a lot of Australians overseas who want the bag because they’re limited edition and they just want that piece of history.”

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