Charity Golf Tournament Planning
How to schedule a charity golf tournament | Golf tournament planning guide | How to plan a golf tournament
Effectively scheduling out your golf tournament can be the make-or-break for attendance and all-day engagement from your golfers. By carefully considering the date, starting time, and activities during the day of your tournament, you can ensure a well-organized and smooth day of FUN-draising for your cause.
In this article, we’ll discuss three key things to consider to help you plan your most successful and easily-managed outing to date!
TIP 1 – Choose your tournament date wisely.
Competing with fellow golfers is a great idea, but competing for popularity with other local events is less so. Make sure to do your due diligence by assessing other events, holidays, tournaments, and activities in the area before committing to a date for your tournament.
By choosing a unique date with less other events to compete with, you’ll garner more attendees, and your registrants will appreciate not having to choose between multiple things they’d like to do.
The timing of when exactly to start tournament planning will vary and is dependent on your resources, timeline, and anticipated event popularity, but a good place to start is about 6 to 9 months before you plan to host the tournament.
TIP 2 – Time appropriately for the format & pace of play.
Finding the fine line between rushing your players and having them standing around waiting for their next hole or next activity can be difficult, but with careful planning, it doesn’t have to be!
With platforms like BirdEase, you can customize registration to collect information like Handicaps and GHIN Numbers. You can also allow golfers to sign up together and indicate who they’d prefer to play with, which typically results in balanced teams who play well together.
TIP 3 – Communicate any changes to your schedule.
Make sure you’re establishing and sharing a schedule early. It’s important to determine the “big” activities, like check-in and tee-off.
An example of a schedule could look like this:
