Founding Partner Opportunities · Miami 2026

Put Your Name On Golf's First Internet Major

The Creators Cup gathers 100+ of golf's creators for three days in Miami with $20,000 on the line and a camera in every cart. The audience is not in a grandstand. The field is the media.

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100+
Creators In The Field
$20K
Across 3 Leaderboards
3 Days
Built For The Camera
1
Title Partner
01The Shift

Golf's Growth Isn't On TV. It's On The Feed.

Golf's audience is splitting in two. The broadcast crowd is aging on the couch. The growth crowd is watching swing breakdowns, course vlogs, trash talk matches and million-view recovery shots, every single day, on their phones.

Right now brands buy that audience one creator at a time. One deal, one post, one hope it lands. The Creators Cup bundles it: one weekend, one city, and the most concentrated room of golf creators ever assembled, every one of them filming.

A tour event sells you a logo in the background of someone else's broadcast. The Cup puts you inside the content itself.

02The Machine

One Weekend That Keeps Publishing

The Cup is engineered so the content is not a byproduct of the event. It is the event.

The Math
100Creators
×
50,000Avg. Following
=
5,000,000+Combined Direct Audience

Every creator posts at least three times over the weekend. That total is before a single collab, share or repost. The founding field is assembling now and reach compounds with every accepted application.

03The Menu

What You Can Own

Every asset below is a piece of the story, not a banner on a fence.

One Available · The Crown Asset

Title Partner: The Creators Cup, Presented By You

Your name on the trophy, the winner's check, every leaderboard graphic, the first tee, and the Green Party stage. Every clip, recap and photo from the first one ever carries you with it. Founding title partners also lock the final dates with us and get a voice in the venue and the field.

The Name On The First One
The Viral Mechanic

The Clip Of The Weekend

The Cup's third leaderboard pays real money for the most electric clip posted from the weekend. Own it, and every creator chasing that prize is chasing a moment with your name on it.

Presented By You
Saturday Night

The Green Party

Host the opening night. Pairings, storylines and the first content of the Cup all happen in one room, in front of your backdrop.

Hosted By You
Sunday / Monday

The Scramble & The Final

Present a competition day. Your name on the format, the scoring, and the champagne moment when the purse is handed over.

Presented By You
On Course

Hole Takeovers & Challenges

A branded par 3, closest-to-the-pin money holes, product demo tees. A hundred creators pass through your hole with cameras rolling.

Built Around Your Brand
In Their Hands

The Gifting Suite

Your product in the hands, bags and content of 100+ golf creators in a single weekend. The most efficient seeding drop in golf.

UGC Engine
04Why Now

There Is Only One First Annual

Masters patrons still talk about 1934. Founding partners are not buying a logo placement, they are buying the story of having named the first one. Dates lock with the title partner, and that door closes the day they are announced.

1

A 15-minute call

Where your brand fits, what it owns, and what the weekend looks like with your name on it. No deck required to start.

2

We build it around you

Activation, placement and content plan designed for your brand, on paper, before you commit a dollar.

3

The announcement

Dates lock, the field is told who made it real, and the first content with your name on it ships the same week.

05Who You'd Be Betting On

A Builder By Trade. A Golfer For Life.

I've spent my career inside startups, taking small teams and unknown names and turning them into brands people can't stop talking about. Growth is my trade. Golf is my life. I grew up on a golf course, my father has taught this game for decades, and I've watched golf's culture change faster in five years of short-form video than in the fifty before it.

The brands that own the next era of this game will not buy their way in through a broadcast. They'll be woven into the content itself, from the start. The Creators Cup is my answer: take everything I know about making things explode, and point it at the game I love.

Not to disrupt golf. To grow it. And the handful of founding partners who build the first one with me get something no budget can buy later: they were there when it started.

Shawn Keding Founder, The Creators Cup
I answer every email myself · shawn@axisonegolf.com
Watch the odyssey · @kedinggolf on TikTok

The First One Only Happens Once.

Title and presenting conversations are open now. Bring your brand, and we will build the asset around it.

Talk To Shawn
Shawn Keding · shawn@axisonegolf.com · Keding Golf / Axis One
Own The First One · Talk To Shawn