Cory Powell, Co-Founder of Hubble.GOLF

Cory Powell is a lifelong entrepreneur and golf industry innovator whose journey began at age eight, when his grandfather gave him a set of cut-down junior clubs and introduced him to the game at a dusty driving range in Central California. That same entrepreneurial spark showed up early - his first business, "Corey's Pooper Scooper," funded the baseball cleats he wanted - and it never faded. Growing up in the Paso Robles/Atascadero area, he came up through a thriving junior golf ecosystem, eventually competing at the state and national level through the AJGA before a brief stint at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In 2010 he moved to Arizona to pursue professional golf, grinding on the mini-tour circuit and playing state opens, Monday qualifiers and summer tours across the country.

Those years on the road - logging 50,000 miles with 20 browser tabs open trying to piece together tournament schedules, entry fees and purses - became the foundation for Hubble.GOLF. Cory first built "Mini Tour Hub," a database of professional events, then co-founded the Outlaw Tour, which grew into one of the Phoenix market's notable mini tours and, during the pandemic, was briefly the only operational pro sport in the world. After selling the Outlaw Tour in 2020, he partnered with technical rev-ops specialist Kevin Lewis to build the platform in earnest, launching Hubble.GOLF - described as "the Expedia of golf events" - with a mission to become the largest searchable event database for junior, amateur, collegiate, professional, charity and networking golf, complete with itinerary planning, travel booking, budgeting and community features.

Today Cory leads Hubble.GOLF full-time, driven by a belief that the platform is bigger than himself - a legacy project meant to grow the game and expand opportunity for the many, not the few. He credits much of his growth to mentorship, particularly his weekly sessions with seasoned C-suite executive Jim Casino, and to the example set by his grandfather: "You have to be willing to pay the price and do what others aren't willing to do." A husband and father of two boys, Cory is a regular LinkedIn community builder and a volunteer with the Junior Golf Association of Arizona, where he shares the beta platform with the next generation of players and their parents.