adidas Golf is calling athletes everywhere to join them on the greatest canvas in sports

The concept behind “Pricey Sports activities” stems from the nuances that set golf aside from another sport:

• The sphere of play is completely different each time you play (tee and gap places change, and so forth.)
• It requires 14 completely different golf equipment to select from
• Because it’s performed outside, the weather are at all times altering (wind, rain, sizzling, chilly, and so forth.)
• Obstacles like water, timber, sand, and so forth. are all extra elements to take care of
• No golf swing is similar
• Distances, how onerous somebody must hit a shot, and so forth. varies

With all these elements in thoughts, “Pricey Sports activities” encapsulates the tales inside golf, displaying that it’s way more than merely hitting a golf ball. It highlights the creativity the game calls for, alongside the joy that makes the game distinctive. Viewers will see supersonic animations displaying the ability of a protracted drive, the joy of holing a tricky shot and the camaraderie that binds golfers collectively.  It additionally soars viewers by the issues that get in the best way between the participant and the opening (timber, bunkers, water, and sure, alligators) that then pressure gamers to get inventive on how they get their ball to the opening. The game then will get gamified by arcade-like pictures and gamers like world No. 1 Dustin Johnson became clay. In a sport that’s usually so conventional, “Pricey Sports activities” brings to life the joy and creativity that retains individuals coming again to the course.

“All golfers – professionals to amateurs – present creativity each single spherical they play and we wished to convey that to life with a model video that individuals within the sport in all probability aren’t used to seeing,” mentioned Courtney McHugh, senior director world model advertising and marketing, adidas Golf. “It ought to trigger you to drop your jaw a little bit bit and make you notice that golf is usually a lot extra enjoyable than you would possibly assume.”

The video launches in the present day, when the world is preparing for the 12 months’s first main, showing on endemic digital channels like GolfChannel.com, GolfDigest.com and GOLF.com, non-endemics by Turner Sports activities, and thru YouTube’s in-stream service. adidas Golf can even make the most of Related TV to faucet into OTT stock like Sling TV, Hulu and Roku within the U.S., however the video can even seem in choose areas all around the world. Past the preliminary launch by Could 2019, the video will proceed to run all year long on social and different choose digital channels.

The marketing campaign video was directed by L.A.-based Freise Bros:

“It is a uncommon consumer that gives you true inventive liberty and wish to step exterior of what is confirmed protected of their market,” mentioned administrators Freise Bros. “adidas made it clear from the start they wished one thing progressive, and our multimedia strategy gave us the chance to mash up every kind of various visible types and collaborate with artist buddies we have been eager to work with for a very long time.”

“Pricey Sports activities” was additionally produced at the side of inventive company, Vitro:

“As an alternative of doing all your typical golf marketing campaign, we wished to ship a message to the sports activities world,” mentioned Sean O’Meara, group account director, Vitro. “That not solely does golf take large creativeness to play, however for individuals who are pushed to invent and create, it’s the best canvas in sport.”

The spot options adidas athletes Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia and Xander Schauffele alongside LPGA Tour professionals Paula Creamer, Jessica Korda and Danielle Kang. It additionally options Korean skilled golfer Shinae Ahn, with a cameo by adidas athlete {and professional} baseball participant Aaron Decide. Skilled golfer and trick shot artist Tania Tare additionally makes an look.