Fun Holiday Tournament Ideas

Tis the season for comfort and joy, so why not have a holiday season-themed golf tournament to celebrate? Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing for this year and next!

Glow Ball

• Nine holes in the dark
• Glow in the dark balls, different colors
• Fairways, bunkers, and greens lined with glow sticks
• Flag poles are lit up
• Tee markers lit up with glow sticks
• Participants decorate their carts to enter a creative cart contest
• Play as a scramble
• Chili and hot coco afterward

Santa Scramble

• Santa costume contest
• Participants decorate carts like sleds or reindeer
• Use red and green balls
• Line the greens and flag pole with lights
• Decorate tee boxes with holiday décor
• Beverage cart with hot chocolate, Irish coffee, etc.
• Longest drive or driving range contest with marshmallows

Toys for Tots

• Each participant is encouraged to donate 1 -2 unwrapped toys
• Toys will be donated back to Toys for Tots who will give them to children who would otherwise not have anything to open on Christmas morning
• Course also donates a monetary amount back to Toys for Tots
• Mini-golf skee-ball obstacle
• Have Marines present to help with check in and contests, as Toys for Tots is put on by the Marines
• Have children there to show who you are donating to
• Card making station for Marines over seas
• Auction and dinner after tournament to raise funds for Toys for Tots. Include yard games like corn hole, horse shoes, ladder ball, ping pong, etc. to make a childish feel

Crafts & Clubs: Christmas Edition

• Have local micro-breweries come to provide samples of their beers to the players
• Have the breweries serve their holiday/seasonal brews
• Get custom koozies to hand out as promo and at registration
• Have food trucks come for after tournament food
• Depending on how many breweries are participating, have some before, after, and on the course
• Sell the featured breweries’ bottles on the beverage cart

For 2017...

Turkey Shoot

• Turn this into a canned food drive by encouraging participants to donate non-perishable food that can be donated back to local food banks in time for Thanksgiving
• Host a Thanksgiving-themed dinner after tournament  
• Driving range pie contest: have a number of pumpkin pies on the driving range, see who can drive the ball into the pies
• Pie the GM- pie tins filled with whipped cream, members can pay to throw a pie in their face