BEST BALL

Best Ball CBD—“Quick as a Hiccup”—is the brainchild of a golf pro and a doctor of physical therapy who wanted to get people back on course. Noticing rounds were down among older members at their local club, they asked why. “Our members were saying they couldn’t get through the general aches and pains and they didn’t enjoy golf as much,” says Laura Baldwin, the therapist and co-founder/owner of Kentucky-based Best Ball CBD. In search of a remedy but disinclined to push conventional pharmaceuticals, she and her golf pro husband, Rob, looked into CBD oil. At one point Kentucky produced 2/3 of the country’s hemp, and so finding high-quality, organic product wasn’t difficult. The couple sampled their way through different concentrations and combinations of ingredients and finally settled on the formulations they now sell, an oil and a cream. Their products are sold to green grass stores only, and they say their local club of 200 members went through 140 items over the summer—a great result with that base. Once they sign a club as a client, Baldwin says, they’re happy to visit the property, set up a table and let members try the products free of charge, just to get things rolling. And while Baldwin grants that their product doesn’t have to be golf-specific, she says it was formulated with golfers in mind: “That is our market, we know golfers, and we know they need something like this.” Check it out, and ask your club to stock it now.

CBD is non-psychoactive and can greatly aid in focus and recovery