A Multi-Engine Platform for Institutional Ownership
OUR platform
How the
Platform
Works
Old Tom Capital builds, finances, and advises businesses across the golf economy through a unified system of five engines: Venture, Growth and Control, Credit, Advisory, and Studio.
Each engine compounds the next, converting access into capital efficiency and capital into lasting control.
Venture Capital
The Tip of the Spear
Our venture arm backs early-stage companies shaping how golf is played, operated, and experienced.
These investments provide early visibility into emerging categories and a first look at businesses before they institutionalize.
Each partnership sharpens our intelligence, deepens our network, and extends the platform’s reach, converting insight into access and access into ownership.
Growth & Control
Strategic Ownership
We acquire and scale businesses that anchor golf’s operating economy, spanning Golf Lite formats, agronomy infrastructure, and media platforms.
These assets generate durable cash flow and benefit from professional ownership, operational discipline, and shared procurement. Integration improves margins and accelerates institutional readiness.
Each acquisition strengthens the platform’s foundation and compounds equity value across the broader capital system.
Credit
Capital Solutions
We provide flexible financing to operators, developers, and course owners across the golf ecosystem.
Our credit strategies address the gap between traditional lenders and the category’s specialized capital needs, from bridge loans to structured NAV facilities.
These relationships generate recurring income for the platform and deepen alignment with the operators we partner with over the long term.
Advisory
Impact Through Partnership
We work alongside governing bodies, operators, and investors to strengthen alignment across capital, governance, and growth in golf.
Our role is to apply institutional structure to a historically fragmented ecosystem, translating strategy into measurable performance and long-term value.
Each engagement delivers more than revenue. It builds trust, expands access, and reinforces the platform’s role as a constructive force within the category.
Studio
Category Creation
We co-develop new ventures with governing bodies, operators, and strategic partners, building proprietary IP that advances how golf is played, organized, and experienced.
These initiatives sit at the intersection of innovation and governance, allowing us to help shape the systems that will define the game’s next chapter.
By creating new categories rather than pursuing existing ones, the Studio converts ideas into assets and insight into enduring enterprise value for the platform.
The Flywheel
How the Platform Compounds
Each engine strengthens the next.
Venture generates intelligence that informs Growth and Control. Advisory and Credit translate that insight into capital deployment and long-term relationships. The Studio converts what we learn into proprietary IP and new opportunities.
Together, they form a self-reinforcing system where access compounds into capital efficiency and capital compounds into lasting ownership.
