Never in the Rough

2025 Future Anything Grand Final, Runner Up
Lucas, Mark and Archie, Ardrossan Area School (SA)

Never in the Rough create bold, sustainable golf gear that’s impossible to lose, with profits funding men’s mental health and mate ship.

Lucas, Mark and Archie from Ardrossan Area School in South Australia pitched their enterprise Never in the Rough at the Future Anything National Grand Final, held at The State Library of Queensland on Tuesday the 18 November 2025.

About the Future Anything National Grand Final 2025

The National Grand Final is the culmination of Future Anything’s award-winning, in-curriculum Activate program. In 2025, over 8200 students and 350+ teachers in over 85 primary and secondary schools across Australia have tackled a version of the below mission: “As an entrepreneur, pitch an innovative idea that makes the world a better place.” With the support of their educators and mentors, our young innovators have taken a deep dive into a real world problem that matters to them, before ideating and prototyping an innovative, scalable and sustainable solution. As Australia’s largest youth entrepreneurship competition, our Future Anything Grand Finalists  were selected from over 600 applications from over 1000 school-age entrepreneurs who applied for this year’s National Finals.

The event was generously supported by the Queensland Government and a host of epic organisations who contributed prizes to support the school-age entrepreneurs.

About Activate

Activate is Future Anything’s immersive in-curriculum program that builds enterprising mindsets in every classroom.

Over a Term or Semester in Primary and Secondary schools, Activate builds future capabilities and integrates fully with mainstream curriculum delivery as an assessable unit of work in Business, Science, STEM, English, Design Technologies, Humanities, HPE & Religion classrooms.

With supported educators leading future-ready curriculum, together, we can bend the future; one youth-led idea at a time.

Every Activate student has the opportunity to apply for the Future Anything National Grand Finals.