Putting Together A Golf Fundraiser

[gulfsidebo]

I am on the board for a small church-run preschool and was tossing the idea around for having a Springtime fundraiser in the form of a golf tournament. Does anybody have any experience doing this and do you have any tips? I played in a game of "best of" over the summer for a YMCA charity event up in Pennsylvania and I had a blast. Thanks in advance.

[Norm66]

Just off the top of my head (and not to discourage you) what I see is that a fund-raiser for a small church-based preschoool is likely to draw participants only from those closely associated with either the church or the pre-school. Would there be enough golfers in that population to make it worthwhile?

[gulfsidebo]

Even if we got buy-in from congregation members only (and some local businesses nearby) I think we could raise a bunch of money. The average contemporary service holds 600 people and there are 2 traditional services. I figured I'd make it 100 dollars to enter per golfer, provide breakfast and have local businesses provide prizes in exchange for the advertising.

[Norm66]

Sounds like it might work then. I was picturing a smaller congregation, but you're looking at probably 1500-ish of which maybe 150 (10%) are golfers so even if only half play it'd be a pretty good turnout.

[hurley9192]

there is a website where you can have a ball drop deal. Everyone pays a certain amount for a ball or multiple ones and they drop them all from a helicopter. Essentially, it's about $5/ball, they get about 5000 balls in there and then pay out $5000. The charity makes about $20k on the deal.

Also, we have a deal where the guys that play send out letters to people they know for the ministry and raise a couple thousand dollars each...the people that send out letters get a special dinner/golf tourney as a thank you.