Auction Caddy Slots
A popular way of raising additional income is to auction a caddy slot prior to your golf day.
This works best if you have a couple of well known celebrities playing on your golf day, as you can involve the local radio station to help you promote the idea.
It’s a bit like all those children you see at football matches when the teams are being led out. You could make it a competition for school kids, or anyone really.
Your local radio station will love it as it is something a bit different, and it will get you great airtime.
Or you could get the local paper to run a competition.
It may only make you a say £200 or £50, but it is a neat way to gain extra exposure for the golf day.
Hope this helps.
Jase
Yellow Ball Challenge
With this challenge the emphasis is on giving something back to the golfers, while still raising a bit of money for the charity.
The challenge can be played with teams of 3 or 4, and each team is issued with a ball coloured yellow. It can be any colour but it must be recognised as different to any other.
The first player, at the first hole uses the yellow ball to play that hole and then passes it on to another player for the second hole etc, etc.
The challenge is to complete all 18 holes with the yellow ball still in play. Extra points can be awarded for the yellow ball on certain holes to make the challenge more exciting. You will not believe the pressure on a player with the yellow ball if he has to make a shot over any water!
Anyway, the team returning with their yellow ball earning the most points can claim a prize. Round of drinks, sleeve of golf balls, it’s up to you.
Charge each team £5 for the yellow ball challenge. 18 teams gives you £90, and remember, they haven’t hit a ball and they’re already fundraising for you.
Hope this helps.
Jase
Longest Putting Competition
Putting Competitions are strangely difficult to administer. It may seem straight-forward on the outside but they can eat a lot of time in an already tight time schedule. Yet, many charity golf events still insist on having any putting competition as the golfers have just finished their round of 18 holes.
The last thing they want is to play more golf; believe me they are headed for the bar!
So, make things easy on yourself. Host the putting competition at the start of the day. Most of your golfers will go to the practice putting green so trap them with the Longest Putt Competition at this stage of the day.
Choose a hole with the course professional which is at the edge of the putting green. Have a couple of tee pegs handy, and get a golfer to attempt to putt a ball from 3 feet away. Don’t forget to get them to donate for their putt – say £1 a go.
When a golfer has got the ball in the hole, congratulate them and move the challenge back 1 foot, and repeat until the ball has gone down the hole.
Eventually you will get more people donating for a try at the Longest Putt, and the beauty with this tip is that you can involve anyone. While your golfers are out playing on the course, challenge a few members who’ll be around.
When you go around on your buggy during the day tell the golfers how far the Longest Putt is, and you’ll find them armed with their pint, having a go when they have finished.
Don’t forget that the main idea is to get their donations. Have some prizes ready for those putting the ball into the hole. You must have some mouse mats, key-rings with the charity logo on somehwere.
You’ll find that this will add a little more drama to the end of the day, as the putt will gradually creep across the putting green, extending to 20 or 30 feet in some cases.
Hope this helps.
Jase
Home Start – North East Hampshire – have asked Jason to help boost their charity golf day income at their Annual Charity Golf Day.
The event to be held on Friday June 6th, will take place at Oak Park Golf Club, just outside of Farnham where golfers will test their skill once again with the Longest Drive Challlenge, with a 1000cc driver.
Jason said, “Last year we had a great day and we will look to develop the challenge a little further this year.”
Keep an eye on the news section here for a full report on the day.
Here is a tip which can be run throughout your golf day, in conjunction with the ‘Mulligans’ tip described in Tip No. 1.
During the day it is a great idea to get out onto the course to visit all the teams playing in the day. Get your self known to the golfers. Most of them will be guests invited to form a team, and will have little idea about the charity.
Get the course professional to take you out on one of the buggies and when you reach a team, introduce yourself, the course professional and your latest fundrasising tip.
In return for a donation to the charity, the course professional will take the tee shot of any of the team.
It works a treat in getting you known to the golfers as the charity contact, and reminds them that they are here to fundraise. It’s also a great opportunity to get to know the course professional.
Your charity may not have been chosen as the course host charity for the year but, make a good impression with the course professional and your half way to securing host charity for the next year.
Hope this helps.
Jase
Pirates of the Caribbean
A great little way to end a charity golf day.
Set up your Pirate Challenge on one of the Par 3 (shortest) holes.
The challenge for the golfers is to get their tee shot onto the green in one shot…playing with one eye.
Make the challenge a bit of fun by selling pirate eye patches for the charity.
It is a great laugh at the end of the round. People are hopeless with one eye disabled, while others hit better shots than they did during their original round.
Keep it simple, by charging £1 per go for the challenge, and make sure you have some cans of beer or a bar token handy for any golfer hitting the green.
Hope this helps.
Jase
Don’t Forget your Euros or Dollars.
Here is a great little win for all those organising a charity golf day abroad.
Remember that all donations made by your golfers at events overseas qualify for Gift Aid.
Why is this important?
Well, your fundraising can be boosted by another 25% with Gift Aid. Many hosts of charity golf days forget this trick.
It doesn’t matter what currency/country hosts your fundraising golf day. HMRC will still apply Gift Aid to the currency.
Hope this helps?
(Only applicable to UK Charity Organisations)
Jase
Design you own Golf Scorecard
A little bit more organisation required with this fundraising tip.
More often than not, your golfers will be given a scorecard at registration from the host golf club. Every golfer likes to keep their own score as well as a card to keep track of any team score or competition you may hold.
A unique part of every golf scorecard isn’t where the scores are recorded, but the information on the reverse side. Why?
They’re packed with adverts from local companies supporting the club.
So design your own scorecard for your golfers to use on the day which highlight the companies supporting your charity.
It is a great way to thank your corporate support.
More importantly, it is also a great way to get the main message behind the charity over to all the golfers.
You can even fit a donation/pledge form on the scorecard.
The possibilities are endless.
Hope this helps.
Jase
Drive In Competition
A Drive In Competition is often carried out at Golf clubs when a new club captain is welcomed to their year of office at a ‘drive in’.
All the members of the club gather round the 1st tee and watch as the new captain makes his shot down the fairway.
As you won’t have a captain, nominate yourself. Or, if you have a celebrity or well known personality playing, get them to host the drive in. Remember the day is about FUNdraising. You don’t need to make everything serious.
Draw a big poster of the 1st hole. Then place a grid of squares over the drawing of the hole.
Best to use one a piece of paper, flipchart size.
You can then encourage the competitors to select a square, on the drawing in return for a donation of course, which they think represents where the ball we land for the drive in.
It’s a great way to start the day. Build up a bit tension for the drive in, and get everyone betting. Golfers like nothing more than a bet; they do it all the time on the course.
How much to charge…Try this one.
“I want all your loose change please.”
No minimum, no maximum just empty your pockets.
Hope this helps.
Nearest The Pin (NTP) Competitions always prove a winner at a Charity Golf Day.
Usually, an organiser will choose one of the Par 3 shorter holes to set the challenge for NTP. Try this idea to challenge the golfers.
Select a Par 4 longer hole for the challenge; one which has a dog-leg is best, and the challenge now becomes Nearest the Pin with the second shot.
Set a £1 fine for any golfer not hitting the green with their second shot, and you’ll be surprised how many golfers will come back moaning about missing the Nearest the Pin challenge.
Hope this helps.
