To provide a comprehensive overview
of planning & implementing a successful golf tournament;
To understand the range of issues,
risks, details and opportunities in holding a fundraising
golf tournament
To determine what type of golf tournament
best suits your organization’s particular needs
Theme
Reading
Discussion
Questions
Week
One
So
You Want to Hold a Fundraising Golf Tournament
?
None.
Top Ten Reasons to Hold
a Fundraising Golf Tournament
Setting your Tournament
Objectives
Recruiting Volunteers
Establishing a Realistic
Timeline
Golf Course Selection
Tournament Budget
Week
Two
The
Key Elements to a Successful Golf Tournament
None.
Sponsorship solicitation
– how/where to find sponsorship money?
The Prize Table –
is it necessary/ how big? Who wins?
Finding Golfers - sales
& marketing strategies
Tournament format &
itinerary
what’s a scramble?
On course activities
- Unique tournament activities
Week
Three
The
Day of the Tournament
None.
Differentiating your
event
Day of event Management
Fundraising at the
Tournament
Week
Four
Contingency
Planning & Evaluation
None.
Contingency
Planning – “What Do we Do if it
Rains?”
Pitfalls
to Avoid
Tournament
Review and Follow Up
Were
we Successful?
About Frank...
Frank MacGrath is the President of Golf
Tournaments Incorporated, a Toronto-based golf event management
company. Founded in 1993, Golf Tournaments Incorporated (GTI)
has planned, organized and implemented more than 350 successful
fundraising golf tournaments as well as numerous specialty
golf event, hole in one contests and other golf related activities.
GTI has worked with a wide variety of charities, corporations
and not for profit organizations across North America including
the Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Foundation, Child
Find Ontario, Covenant House Toronto, Parkinson Society Canada,
Rose Cherry’s Home and the University of Toronto. Frank
is the author of the “Complete Handbook for Running
a Successful Fundraising Golf Tournament”.
Prior to joining Golf Tournaments Incorporated,
Frank was a senior executive with the Miller Group of Companies.
Frank has a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Queen’s
University as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University
of Toronto. He has been an active community volunteer and
has previously served in volunteer leadership roles with the
Big Brothers of York Region, the Governing Council of the
University of Toronto, the Canadian Cancer Society and the
Parkinson Society Canada.
