Phegsdann Charity Golf Day: Branded Tees and Umbrellas for 65 Golfers

Hotline Promotional Products sponsored printed wooden golf tees and branded golf umbrellas for the first Phegsdann Charity Golf Day, held at Hampton Court Palace Golf Club in 2025 in aid of The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. Sixty-five golfers played, five more came to watch, and the day raised over £4,500.

How the day started

Danny explained:

The format was a full day at Hampton Court Palace Golf Club: breakfast, 18 holes, a two-course dinner, trophy presentations and a raffle. Sixty-five golfers played and five more came along, and the day raised over £4,500.

Giveaways and prizes are two different purchases

This is the part worth taking away, and most people planning a competitive event get it wrong by treating merchandise as one line in the budget.

Everyone gets the giveaway

At a golf day that means something cheap enough for the full field, useful during the round, and on theme. Printed wooden tees do all three. Golfers lose tees constantly, so a handful in a pocket is genuinely useful rather than politely accepted, and a branded tee is in somebody's hand eighteen times in a day.

Only some people get the prize

A prize has the opposite requirements. It is seen by the whole room during the presentation, it is kept, and it has to look like it was worth competing for. A golf umbrella works because it is unmistakably a golf item, it is large enough to read across a dinner table, and it is used every time somebody plays in bad weather.

Buying one product to do both jobs fails at both ends. Something good enough to be a prize is too expensive for 65 people, and something cheap enough for 65 people looks thin when it is handed over on a stage.

The Royal Marsden also supplied tees of their own, which is a sensible pattern at a charity event: the beneficiary's branding alongside the organiser's, both in the same pocket.

What a golf day can raise

Sixty-five golfers, five spectators, over £4,500.

That works out at roughly £64 per person in the room, which is a useful benchmark if you are trying to work out whether a golf day is worth organising. It is comparable to what a black-tie ball raises per head, and considerably easier to arrange, because a golf club will run most of the day for you.

Two honest caveats. This was a first event, so the figure reflects goodwill from friends and colleagues rather than a mature fundraiser. And the golf club, the dinner and the merchandise all have costs behind them that a headline raise does not show.

Buying for a golf day

If you are organising one, the practical sequence is: work out your field size, decide your prize categories, then buy the two tiers separately.

Prize categories at a golf day are usually longest drive, nearest the pin, best individual, best team, and a raffle. That is five to eight prizes rather than one, so the prize budget is a per-prize figure rather than a single number. Umbrellas, bags and drinkware all work at that tier because they are visible on a golf course afterwards.

For the field, tees and balls are the obvious choices because they are consumed during play. Anything a golfer has to carry round for four hours and does not need will be left in the buggy.

Our guide to how to choose promotional products for an event covers matching a product to the format of the day, and promotional products for charity events and fundraisers covers ordering for a fundraiser. Our case study on branded trolley coins at a charity ball covers the equivalent question at a seated evening event.

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