Fundraising with NITELITE Golf Tournanments
NITELITE Golf Tournaments make great fundraisers for charities, hospitals, schools, churches and so many more organizations.

Most golf clubs would donate their courses just to be named as a major sponsor or a community service. You may even want to consider a fund raising tournament to raise money for your own club's special project.

Most fundraising tournaments include food and beverages, raffles and prizes to the winners of the tournaments. Chances are that the prizes are donated from local businesses. Our prize packs work well here too. The most successful fundraising tournaments have been supported by local business and radio personalities as well as newspaper and other media.

Types of Contests that will award prizes

• Five, nine or eighteen hole tournaments. We strongly recommend holding shotgun and scramble type events - relaxing and more fun. Nine hole tournaments take about 2 - 3 hours to play. Split it up too. Have nine holes before the sun goes down and 9 holes after the sun sets!
• Closest to the pin.
• Longest Driver or hold a cumulative contest adding up the total yardage registered by players using a driver or 3 wood, a 5 iron and a 9 iron measuring to the nearest foot. This is a great way to introduce your members to the world of NITELITE Golf!
• Skins Game - Any number of holes.
• Putting Contest using 2 or 3 of your darkest greens near your club house
  

Tips to Increase Profits and Success

• Start the planning of your tournament early
• Establish working committees to research local and corporate sponsorship and raffles, auctions and prizes. Sell your sponsorships for $500 or more.
• Advertise your tournament as a Unique and Different kind of fun.
• Increase your visability using radio, tv and newspapers and invite the press to participate in the event.
• Call Sports Anchors or Directors and tell them about your event.
• Increase player partisipation and revenuesby utilizing all 18 holes of a course. Even better is to use a course with more than one course. American Cancer Foundation in Toledeo, Ohio, uses a facility with 4 courses and has increased partisipation to over 300 players!
• Run several events during the tournament to allow everyone to play at the same time.
  • Examples:
  • Closest to the Pin
  • Putting Tournament
  • Longest Drive
  • Hole-in-One - 48 Holes-in-One have been achieved thus far since it all began.
• Light up some golf carts. Have your participants bring flashlights for direction only. No need to shine it on the golfball. Blink the flashlight at the golfers waiting to indicate that you are moving on to the next hole.
• Don't forget to turn off those sprinkler systems.
• Light hazards well.
• HAVE A BALL and MAKE SOME MONEY!