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Take advantage of our relationship with ESPN to Make Money & Get New Prospects for your club with the ESPN National Golf Challenge.
As always, we're focusing on driving revenues and have a fun turn-key tournament promotion to share with you called the ESPN National Golf Challenge presented by Callaway Golf. It is an amateur two-person better ball tournament designed to find "America's Best 2 Some" in Gross, Net and, new this year, Senior Net (55 and over) divisions. Two-person teams from all over the U.S. can register to play in a Local Qualifier and attempt to play their way to ESPN's National Finals, to be held Oct. 22 - 24, 2009 at The Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort,
What's in it for my club? Revenues and Prospects!
Your Club Makes Money on Entry Fees, Green Fees, Cart Fees, F&B and incremental spending on property and get new club prospects who might not have played at your course before by hosting this event. Participants will be able to play at their Local Qualifying Site course or club by paying an entry fee determined by the club. This fee should include reasonable greens and cart fees plus $49 per player which will be remitted to ESPN after the event. . For this $49 fee paid to ESPN, each player will receive a dozen Callaway Golf iX Tour Balls and an annual subscription to Golf Magazine.
What's in it for the Golf Professional at my club? Easy Money!
Golf Professionals can make additional money in a number of ways!
1. Golf Professionals receive $500 and 1 pro qualifies for the Pro Invitational (held in conjunction with the National Finals) if your cumulative total number of players from all of your Local Qualifying events is 60 or more players.
2. Receive $1000 and 2 pros qualify for the Pro Invitational for 100 or more cumulative players.
3. Club pros also may follow their team to the National Finals to play in the Pro event as long as they had at least 24 cumulative players in their Local Qualifiers.
What's in it for the golfers at my club? Competition, Prizes, Fun, and Bragging Rights!
As mentioned above, each player who participates in your event will receive 1 dozen Callaway Golf iX Tour Balls ($54 value) at the local tournament site and an annual subscription to Golf Magazine ($48 value on the newsstand).
Teams advancing to the Regional Qualifiers are determined by the number of teams competing at the local events. Winning teams that advance to the Regional level will pay an additional entry fee of $179 per player ($358 per team), collected by the Local Qualifying site. The entry fee includes a tee gift with a value of at least $100, greens fee, cart fee, range balls and lunch at the Regional site. No additional entry fee is required for those teams advancing to the National Finals. Players may even get a chance to be on TV with the other National Finalists!
How does my club get involved? It's easy and we will help!
Step One: Register with Legendary Marketing and let us help you promote your event!
Register now to receive our turn-key promotional package including best practices, ways to increase participation, press releases, templates, graphics and other worthwhile tips on promoting your event. And by registering with us, you'll be eligible for the grand prize Bowl Game Getaway for 2 exclusively for Legendary Marketing partners. Additionally, we will be able to promote your club as a participating site through our nationwide database of 3 million golfers.
Once registered, you will then be automatically directed to the ESPN National Golf Challenge site for more information. This is where you will register your site when you have selected your Local Qualifier date(s).
Step Two: Register your site and date(s) with ESPNgolf.com
Click on www.espngolf.com and select ‘Register Now'. In the comment section, you MUST type in the words Legendary Partner so we can leverage the 3 million golfer email data that we own to help drive traffic to your website for your event (data available in your area may vary)! This also ensures your eligibility for the Bowl Game Grand Prize Getaway (see below) for Legendary Partners only and gives you priority consideration for being selected to host a Regional Qualifier which means additional tournament dollars for your club!
Local Qualifiers may be held anytime between January 1, 2009 and July 15, 2009. You may host as many events as you desire during this time period in order to achieve the 60 player count that triggers a $500 payout or 100 player count that triggers a $1000 payout. Teams may play in as many Local Qualifiers as they wish in order to qualify for the Regional one.
This is just another simple, easy Legendary idea designed to drive revenues and prospects to your club!
This promotion is so exciting we are inviting our non-partners to participate also! But, as a special bonus to our current Legendary Marketing Partners...
ESPN has agreed to give us a getaway package for two to an ESPN bowl game including aifare, lodging, tickets and entertainment! The club who has the most players in their local ESPN National Golf Challenge event(s) will receive that special prize!
To be eligible for this additional "Bonus Prize" you must:
- Be a current Legendary Marketing Partner
- Register on this Legendary portal page
- Indicate on your ESPN registration that you are a Legendary Marketing Partner by adding LMP after your facility name!
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