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St. Louis golf coach's startup designs patent-pending product to improve users' short game

2 years 8 months ago
Former professional golfer Brad Smith, now head men's golf coach at Webster University in St. Louis, had an aha moment in 2017 while watching current pro Jason Day's approach to his short game. Smith liked Day's straight-arm technique for chipping and pitching and wanted to replicate it with a training aid. That idea led to a startup, Flyt Golf, and a patent-pending sleeve that's now used by more than 50 PGA Tour players and instructors, including champions such as Justin Rose. β€œThe Flyt Sleeve…
Leslie Collins

Funded by prominent St. Louis businessman, new research institute launches to focus on geospatial technology

2 years 8 months ago
With the newly created center envisioned as becoming a key component in St. Louis' ongoing effort to bolster its burgeoning geospatial technology sector, officials behind the center say they believe it can play the same role in geotech that the Danforth Center has in elevating St. Louis’ prowess in plant science and agriculture innovation.
Nathan Rubbelke

Nominate your in-house counsel by April 22 for annual Business Journal award

2 years 8 months ago
Nominations for the St. Louis Business Journal's annual Corporate Counsel Awards, which seek to celebrate the best and brightest legal minds in the corporate landscape, are due Friday, April 22. Submit your nomination here before it's too late. These awards will span all levels of the corporate legal department structure, from in-house generalists and specialists to chief legal officers and general counsels, who work in nonprofit organizations or in public or private companies of any size in any…
Veneta Rizvic

Saint Louis University sees growing interest in cannabis education

2 years 8 months ago
Wednesday was 4-20. Every year on that date, marijuana advocates celebrate the plant and push for legalization. Meanwhile, Saint Louis University continues to make strides in producing graduates who are workforce ready. This includes a push to get medical workers to go back to school to learn about cannabis. The focus is on doctors, nurses and even social workers and police. With more patients taking advantage of medical marijuana, SLU wants to make sure professionals are better trained on the use…
Brent Solomon, KSDK