Attracting frequent tournament play is vital to any golf course’s ability to turn a profit – or merely survive – in today’s market. Every detail counts when competing with other clubs for tourney dollars. How quickly you get players onto the course; the uniqueness of player gifts; food quality… Little things like these go a long way in building your reputation as a host site.
In fact, something as seemingly trivial as the delivery and presentation of driving range balls can make an important impression on visitors.
Most courses simply hand out bags or baskets of balls to tournament golfers, who dump them on the range, hit a handful, and leave the rest scattered about. Here’s a better idea: Send golfers directly to the range, where they’ll find balls piled neatly in pyramids. Bayco Golf’s Original Pyramid Stacker makes it incredibly easy to decorate your range with these cool-looking figures, giving players an experience usually reserved for tour pros.
What’s more, balls stacked in pyramids don’t end up all over the place. Typically, golfers will grab a few off the tray and hit them, rather than knocking down the whole thing. Once the player has hit to her heart’s content, the remaining balls sit in their tray, nice and orderly, a cinch to pick up and put back where they came from.
Will a pyramid-stacked driving range boost the number of tourneys you host? Probably not on its own. But it will certainly enhance your efforts to stand out from the crowd.