Golf Tournament Committees – Extending your circle of Influence

Golf Tournament Committees –

Extending your circle of Influence

 

I am often asked by Golf Tournament directors “how can I do all of this by myself”? The answer is simple You Shouln’t!

Quite honestly Golf Tournament Committees can make your life easier or more difficult, but they can extend your ability to get the word out exponentially. At your first committee meeting, you will have 20 new people sitting around the room with 21 opinions of how it needs to be done. However, in a few weeks you will be hard pressed to find anywhere near this many people still involved.  It’s like the old joke in a ham and egg breakfast the chicken is involved but the pig is committed. Try to find people who are committed to the cause.

 

When setting up your committee, it is truly important to realize that you can’t be everything to everyone. With that said the ideal committee structure looks something like this:

 

Golf Tournament Director

Sponsor Director

Golfer Director

Golf Course and Food Director

Gift and Prize Director

Registration and Logistics Director

 

By having each director having 2 volunteers underneath them, you now have 3 people per committee or a total of 18 people involved. Only directors come to decision making meetings. It is much easier to control decisions this way. More importantly with 36 people involved, if each person finds 2 foursomes you now have 36 foursomes (144 golfers) and a sold out event.  You now also have 36 people helping you to find sponsors. If each person finds 2 hole sponsors at $250 each you have now raised an additional $9,000. Just think of the spheres of influence you now have for finding Gold, Silver and Bronze Sponsors. 

 

By managing your committees well, you have unlimited abilities to meet new people that you would never be able to encounter all by yourself. And, by all means, when your event is through, remember to reward your committee members so that they come back again next year.