Golf Tournaments Made Easy -- How to Organize Successful Charity Golf Tournaments

Vancouver, British Columbia (PRWEB) April 2, 2008 -- "How To Organize Successful Charity Golf Tournaments" shows how to set up a tournament organization, select golf games, choose prizes, promote and advertise the event, raise funds, calculate tax receipts, recruit players, sponsors and volunteers, work effectively with the golf course professionals and staff and provide continuity from one year to the next.

It contains a complete check list and timeline for both the golf tournament and the post game banquet. The schedule starts 15 months prior to the tournament date and is an automatic double-check for everybody connected with the tournament.

The duties and responsibilities of each of the organizing committee members are defined: Chair, Vice-Chair, Registrar, Finance, Advertising / Promotion / Fundraising, Tournament Operation, and Post Game festivities.

The book is easy to read and comprehensive. It provides clear, practical examples of goals, responsibilities and procedures. One example is of a Canadian golf club in 2007 raising over $600,000 for charity in a single tournament.

Different types of golf tournaments, individual and team games, and their formats are described. Instructions on score cards and calculating winners are explained.

The book provides suggestions on fundraising, advertising and promotion, post game festivities and how to avoid pitfalls such as slow play.

Many tips on what and not what to do are included such as:

?    Focus on product quality throughout.

?    Be realistic in your expectations.

?    Target seven hours maximum from start time

to departure for your players.

?    Silent and live auction tactics.

?    Maintain a tournament journal.

The book explains how tax receipts for players in Canada and the United States are calculated. It also discusses hole-in-one insurance, safety and security.

Examples of tournament documents such as registration forms, golf club contracts, costs and revenues budgets are detailed. Layouts of tournament day documents and reports for the golf and banquet are described.

Golf tournaments need well organized and committed volunteers to be successful. The book shows how to recruit and retain volunteers. Similar advice is given for recruitment and retention of players and sponsors.

The book emphasizes use by charities but corporations who plan an appreciation tournament for their clients, suppliers and employees will find it useful.

Companies sponsoring tournaments and golf clubs can further help their recipients by donating copies of the book.

The author Pat Cash comes from Tullamore and Moate in Ireland and now shares his golfing between British Columbia and Arizona. He is a systems specialist who has volunteered for many years in both professional and amateur tournaments and chaired numerous golf committees. He was Club President when his club hosted the 1992 World Amateur Golf Championships for men and women involving over 100 teams from over 50 countries.

To learn more about the Author and read newspaper reviews of the book, please visit http://www.golforcharity.com

Contact Information:

Pat Cash

Tel:    1 604 948 9998

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