North Auroran Rob Parks and Plano resident Jim Martens have known each other since junior high, and have been golf buddies the past decade or so.

Now the two men have started a business called AeroGolf they hope will help transform the way seniors or those with disabilities can play the game they themselves love so much.

That mission centers around something akin to a potato gun that, through compressed air, “drives” golf balls anywhere from 30-250 yards; giving players a long game that would not otherwise be possible.

The “aero club,” – put together with “mostly plumbing parts” – was the brainchild of Parks, a machinist and self-described “tinkerer” who went on this quest in 2018 after watching his always-athletic uncle “lose his ability to swing a driver” yet “could still putt and do

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