Our Team

Founder: Anthony Netto

A native of South Africa, Anthony has become an international ambassador for challenged golf, and USGTF Master Golf Teaching Pro since 1999. He has been involved in Disabled golf across the globe. Today he resides in the US where he spends much of his time training PGA professionals, rehab therapists and adaptive golf organizations on how to use golf as a therapy, while also serving as a consultant for handicapped golfers worldwide.

Motivated by his own challenges, Anthony co-invented the VertaCat/Paragolfer all-terrain standing sports wheelchair in 2000, and founded the Stand Up and Play Foundation in 2010. He achieved another milestone in 2023 by co-founding and developing the VertaCat, a revolutionary adaptive golf cart.

It’s More Than Golf. It’s Freedom!

The Stand Up and Play Foundation’s mission is simple: to give wheelchair user and those with mobility challenges the chance to stand up again; to experience the empowerment of looking someone in the eye; to experience the freedom to play sports. It’s simple. Our goal is to give as many people as possible the gift of standing up. We want to make VertaCats/Paramobiles available to as many veterans, veteran’s groups, first responders, children, support organizations, rehab centers, hospitals, golf courses, and individuals as possible.

Greg “Jake” Jacobson

Former professional golfer Greg “Jake” Jacobson ’82 had his world turned upside-down in 2011, when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). Since his diagnosis, Jacobson has redirected his energy to making the historically inaccessible golf world more accessible to those with both physical and mental disabilities. Jacobson teaches people with disabilities how to play golf with the VertaCat/Paramobile, allowing them to revisit a sport that few thought they’d get to experience again. “My mission now is not to go out and break course records,” he said. “It’s all about teaching adults with severe disabilities how they can golf.”