Golf Day Prizes

Hello Everyone, After wondering what prizes to offer for this year's company golf day, I thought I would ask for some input from your good selves. I am running a pairs competition and wish to do prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd pair. I normally also do a little prize for last place pairing too. Last year I offered 1st place the Garmin S1 Watch each, 2nd place a Srixon carry bag and 3rd place a wine gift box. The golf prizes were from a well known golf retail store who kindly let me purchase them with a gift receipt so the winners could return the items and spend the value of the prize. This was fortunate as one of the winners of the watch walked up to collect it wearing one! If you played a golf day what type of prizes do you like to win? Golf related or not? Thank you Shane

Hi Shane.

A box of premium golf balls, PRO V1 etc, is always a good 1 in my opinion. Also a 4ball voucher for a decent course

Shane, have you looked at offering a hole in one prize? I looked into this about 6 months ago - it is fairly cheap to get a deal to offer a car as a prize. There are companies out there that offer it fairly cheaply - basically you just pay for the insurance against someone getting it. The deal will depend on how difficult the hole is and the standard of players; there is some official-dom to make sure it is all run fairly. I didn't take it forward as the numbers I was organising for were too low to justify it.

The hole in one prize is a great idea. We just had our presidents day and a hole in one on the 4th landed a £2000 holiday voucher, with a £250 voucher for an ace on any other Par 3.

Nobody won, but it was a nervous moment when my ball rolled around 3 feet passed the hole.