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Certified PGA Professional

25+ years of golf tournament planning experience including working with first time event planners to hosting regional and national championships working with the USGA, PGA Tour, and Golf Channel.

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Downloadable Resources

20+ FREE digital downloads including customizable entry forms, letters, rules sheets, checklists, budgets, sponsorship guides, as well as contingency plans and post event evaluation forms.

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Pro Tips

Throughout the guide numerous "pro-tips" have been included and highlighted allowing you to take advantage or our experiences helping you to host a great event.

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Chapter 1 - Reasons For Having a Golf Tournament

Hosting a golf tournament is a great group activity where people can work together, have fun and in many cases earn money for a great cause in which everyone involved is able to contribute. Golf tournaments are not only great fundraisers, they also facilitate opportunities to strengthen relationships with current customers, potential customers as well as employees. Hosting an employee tournament is a great way to let your employees know that you appreciate their efforts throughout the year

Chapter 2 - Planning for Success

A typical timeline for planning a successful golf tournament can be anywhere from six to twelve months. There are numerous steps and activities that you must plan and coordinate in order to ensure that you have a well run, FUN golf tournament for your players.

Chapter 3 - Building a Winning Team

When it comes to hosting a golf tournament, too often, a group of people are reluctantly recruited to try and help out and are not fully committed to the team and the success of the golf tournament. Teams are most effective when you have the right people willing to work together to achieve a common goal.

Chapter 4 - Budget | Managing to Your Goal

How will your tournament standout among the thousands of golf tournaments that are being contested each year. Beyond participation, a common goal of golf tournaments is to generate revenues by offering various fundraising components to your tournament. In order to maximize revenues you'll want to create a memorable experience for all participants, one that will encourage them to spend more on your tournament and keep them coming back to play in your tournament year after year.

Chapter 5 - Marketing & Promoting Your Golf Tournament

A typical timeline for planning a successful golf tournament can be anywhere from six to twelve months. There are numerous steps and activities that you must plan and coordinate in order to ensure that you have a well run, FUN golf tournament for your players.

Chapter 6 - Golf Tournament Operations

Prior to the day of the tournament you will want to schedule a walkthrough with the host golf professional to ensure that you are in agreement regarding all of the operational details of the event. This is a good time to have any questions that you may still have answered. If possible have key members of your team available to participate in the walkthrough - this will help to minimize confusion and miscommunications on the day of the tournament. There are several aspects of golf tournament operations that you'll want to review with the golf professional and any other key golf course staff members.

Chapter 7 - Contingency Plans, Evaluations, & Follow Up

Developing a contingency plan helps to start the conversation and answer some basic questions about potential situations, in which the answers to these questions helps to ensure a well run tournament when things (as they sometimes will) don't go as planned.

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