Friday, November 19, 2010

How To Prepare For A Triumphant Golf Tournament

By Vince Woods


When you are planning a golf tournament, you'll almost certainly feel lost and overwhelmed at times. It's a huge job! There are a few steps you can take, however, to help encourage the tournament to go more smoothly. If you take your time and plan things well, you can make sure you meet your deadlines and keep to your budget and all will be well.

First, you need to be very clear about your deadlines. What is due when? What needs to be ordered, reserved, printed, by when? Make up a list of deadlines and look at all of your deadlines at once so you can have an idea of task flow. This will also let you save money because you can start planning earlier an look for deals.

You can pair things up prior to the event. If you do this you may be able to avoid expensive last-minute adjustments that can make the event seem chaotic. Make sure that everyone on your planning committee is either quite knowledgeable about golf or else is paired with someone who has extensive golf experience.

Break your planning committee into teams of 15 people. Each team should be responsible for finding two hole sponsors, and two full teams. If you give them specific goals, this is an easy-to-gauge marker of progress.

What if you do all of the planning right, but then you have a poor turnout? It doesn't mean you have a bad event. It is just that your marketing was lacking.

The tournament needs to be both well planned and well publicized if it is to be a success. One way to ensure that the publicity is managed is to create a website that is for both organizers and attendees. You want to allow attendees to order their items in advance. Plus if you do this you can have delivery set for a week ahead of time, to ensure nothing comes too late.

Book your event at a fantastic golf course. If you choose a poorly laid out or poorly maintained course, it doesn't matter how much publicity you got or how well you planned. The event is still going to flop.

When you book your tournament, see if you can't book the entire course. If you use the course to capacity, you can save time and money. You won't have to hire people separately to help with the logistics of photography and signs and prizes and so on, because the course staff should help with this.




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