Vice Golf
Munich-born direct-to-consumer golf brand making tour-quality cast urethane balls (and bold colorways) at roughly half the price of legacy brands.
- Founded
- 2012
- Founder
- Ingo Düllmann and Rainer Stöckl
- Country
- Germany
- Made In
- Designed and engineered in Germany; balls manufactured in Taiwan per public reporting
- Price Range
- Accessible
- Stance
- 7 / 10
- Coverage
- 0 products
Vice Golf was launched on 12.12.12 in Munich by two law-school friends, Ingo Düllmann and Rainer Stöckl, who met surfing the Eisbach wave and decided the golf-ball market was ripe for a Warby Parker–style direct-to-consumer reset. The company sells multilayer cast urethane Tour balls and two-piece Surlyn distance balls engineered in Germany, alongside apparel and accessories, leaning hard into bright colorways and irreverent branding that contrasts with the staid look of legacy ball brands. In May 2022, pan-European private equity firm Oakley Capital took a stake via its Origin Fund, with founders Düllmann and Stöckl remaining involved to drive global expansion. The brand has since extended into clubs through a merger with Munich-based fitter HIO.
Founded 2012 by Ingo Düllmann and Rainer Stöckl.
Return policy
Sold via Erthe Golf for this listing; refer to Erthe Golf's published return policy.
Designed and engineered in Germany; balls manufactured in Taiwan per public reporting
Vice publishes limited public sustainability commitments; the brand's value proposition centers on price disruption rather than environmental claims.
- 2012Founded by Ingo Düllmann and Rainer StöcklVice Golf company story / Oakley Capital press release 2022
- 2022PE buyout by Oakley Capital (Origin Fund)Oakley Capital press release May 2022
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