Golf venture-capital fund seeks investors

FORT COLLINS — A new investment opportunity has been made available for golf enthusiasts willing to venture outside the stock market.The Colorado Golf Ventures Fund is a Private Limited Partnership, established for the purpose of investing in companies that sell products and services to the golf industry.
Fund manager Ted Dedolph, an experienced financial consultant and golf lover himself, has devised a strategy to raise $5 million, the bulk of which he plans to invest in three or four companies.
Dedolph describes his plan as a "crawl/walk/run" approach to fund a startup venture. His fund-raising strategy consists of three…