Golf Club Prizes? Your choice...

'scorthy

O.K. You've played out of your skin and won first prize in your clubs sponsored competition and now you face the sponsor at the presentation and thank them for their lovely prizes...But Oh no!! not crystal again ..What I really wanted was something for the Misses to get some brownie points to get me back out again...if I bring home another piece of crystal to polish she'll hit me with it.

So what would be NUMBER 1 on your prefered list of prizes? 4 green fees for another club? Golf gear?

Really like to know as our club are venturing into unmarked waters and a different approach to sponsors and their prizes this year

Tom Ghostwood

Voucher for pro shop.
Restaurant voucher.
Green fees.

rafared

Totally agree. I hate crystal and so does herself. Its very old fashioned in my opinion. I have been a committee member and there was a tendency for the older guys to want to buy crystal for prizes because they would have loved to win it. I won the club foresomes matchplay this year and we got a Ping Anser2 putter each and the cup which we keep for a year before getting it engraved and returning it. A good prize I thought.
A great prize I won last year was a Samsonite cabin luggage trolley bag. Perfect size for bringing onto a plane and specifically designed for the purpose. Wife was very happy with that one.
I suppose green fees and food vouchers would be good or failing that a voucher for the pro shop.
We also had sponsors specifically ask that we not ask them to hand out vouchers as prizes because they felt it didnt look good just to be handing an envelope as a prize. They reckoned it looked cheap as opposed to a piece of crystal.

rafared

Sould have added this to my last post. This year my father in law was captain at a dublin club. For his captains prize he rang each winner and asked them what they would like to be presented with. This is unusual id say but it worked well. The winner of his prize asked for a watch which he got engraved as a reminder of the year he won it. The others asked for and got flat screen tvs, dvd players , and Ipods for the juvenilles as far as I can remember. He would have known the budjet for each category in advance so was able to buy suitable prizes. He also told me home entertainment prizes like dvd players ect were always well recieved.

'scorthy

Voucher for pro shop.
Restaurant voucher.
Green fees. Thanks Tom Ghostman

"We also had sponsors specifically ask that we not ask them to hand out vouchers as prizes because they felt it didnt look good just to be handing an envelope as a prize. They reckoned it looked cheap as opposed to a piece of crystal." I think that was mutted also...good point. After all, sponsorship will be an uphill struggle next year. Must keep the sponsor happy .

Nice idea for Captain Prize...might not work for us as the presentation is on the same night as the competition.

If it's golf gear then the PROSHOP should be more involved...pro-active; especially if they want to increase business.

Household appliances, definitely entertainment systems to keep the kids happy. I won one several year ago and its still going.

Kevinmarkham

I did a poll a while back that may be of help:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=12895

Sandwich

Monthly medals : a medal.

The handful of club major comps (Caps, Pres, match play) : engraved display momento of some sort (yes, even crystal)

All other typical weekly comps : no prizes at all. The satisfaction of winning suffices.

Opens: greenfees or vouchers

jimjo

I've won a bit recently and have +€150 in pro shop vouchers, which is great in all but the pro shop is limited; maybe I'm a bit polite there, I mean its crap! Totally overpriced and very little stock.

I feel competition fee's should be reduced as its purely the satisfaction from winning or playing well that matters, not some big shop voucher if you do shoot a decent round.

However as someone else mentioned green fee’s would be a great idea, say if I was given a two ball voucher for say South County or Dunmurry Springs (Not picking expensive courses) I’d be delighted, would be a great day out!

Mister Sifter

Galway crystal is a bore, but my own club hit a new low this year with hampers of booze for everything. Pathetic. Nine prizes for Captain's day and all hampers of booze with differing bottles - same for the club classic, same for the presidents.

Personally i'd prefer vouchers or golf gear.

rafared

Mister Sifter wrote: »

Galway crystal is a bore, but my own club hit a new low this year with hampers of booze for everything. Pathetic. Nine prizes for Captain's day and all hampers of booze with differing bottles - same for the club classic, same for the presidents.

Personally i'd prefer vouchers or golf gear.

Hampers of booze for all those comps.....not very creative. I totally agree about the golf gear or vouchers. Its probably important as a committee to vary the prizes somewhat. We gave out some modern glass ware this year, john rocha I think which went down well.

Mister Sifter

rafared wrote: »

Hampers of booze for all those comps.....not very creative. I totally agree about the golf gear or vouchers. Its probably important as a committee to vary the prizes somewhat. We gave out some modern glass ware this year, john rocha I think which went down well.

Yeah, even for the club classic which cost 450 euro per team the prizes were hampers of booze. Very poor.

L.O.F.T

Sandwich wrote: »

All other typical weekly comps : no prizes at all. The satisfaction of winning suffices.

Admirable but absurd. You win you get a prize, satisfaction or not. Not all golfers play to have the satisfaction of winning keep them happy, they play to win and claim the prize that comes with it.

jimbling

Vouchers are the best prize for the smaller competitions. I suppose it depends on the shop you win it for though. Our pro shop has pretty much nothing in it, but you can get them to order pretty much anything you want.

For bigger competitions you have to have a presentation, so need physical items. Golf gear and electronics are the way forward in this regard.

I've won €160 worth of vouchers and an excellent digital camera (€250approx) this summer..... handy. If I won some crystal it would be broken or given away by now.

PhilipMarlowe

I prefer something tangible... even nice crystal which keeps herself happy too. I have a few nice pieces which serve to remind me of good days out the odd time.
Don't like crystal for crystal's sake for smaller prizes.
Our club doesn't have much of a shop so golf related prizes are got elsewhere... pain in the arm changing them so I'd prefer a voucher. I've won shirts that were the wrong size, clubs that face the wrong way... bag when I'd just bought one a week earlier... that sort of thing.
Anyway, hasn't been much of an issue the last few years!

Krustacean

What are your thoughts on Golfer endorsed Wines ? Makes the hamper more relevant to golf and get's you brownie points with the missus. Faldo / Player / Palmer ...

Christy Jnr has just launched his own range of wines in O'Briens.

www.celebritywines.ie

Opinions ?

Krusty

Mister Sifter

Krustacean wrote: »

What are your thoughts on Golfer endorsed Wines ? Makes the hamper more relevant to golf and get's you brownie points with the missus. Faldo / Player / Palmer ...

Christy Jnr has just launched his own range of wines in O'Briens.

www.celebritywines.ie

Opinions ?

Krusty

So you keep saying...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62521419

Just as i wouldn't buy John Daly or Arnold Palmer golf balls, i wouldn't buy a wine with the name of a golfer on it just because i had the name of a golfer on it.

postalservice

As i have said before I'd love this kind of thing.


I like engraved crystal too.

Nice for memories

sorry the pic is so big

trackerman

Tom Ghostwood wrote: »

Voucher for pro shop.
Restaurant voucher.
Green fees.

+1

We all love to get something we really need for free.

The_Kew_Tour

Dont mind although in the weekly singles and fourballs nice get golf voucher or some sort of equipment.

However I suppose for captains prizes etc the bigger events Crystal is little more rewarding as you can look back at it and talk about it over time.

trophies also are ok in the bigger competitions

soundsham

while I would be a fan of vouchers as prizes I can understand why bigger events are recognised by a prizegiving so this means handing over a piece of glass usually,

I just think most of the time a big lump of glass isn'nt really that practical for most peoples home, I wish the men would take a leaf from the ladies here, often seen the ladies give out jewellery........

what would be wrong with a nice watch.........and if you didn't like it wouldn't it be a good prize to exchange towards something for the oh to keep them happy;)