Golf balls for your corporate golf day

A corporate golf day is the perfect moment to make your brand visible. Printed golf balls with your company logo give the day a polished, professional look — and participants take them home.

Decide on your quantity

Work out how many participants you expect and how many balls you want to give each person (a sleeve of three or a dozen is common). The minimum order is 144 golf balls; larger quantities are better value. Order a little generously rather than too tight.

Choose the right ball

For a premium experience, choose a Titleist; for larger groups at a keen price, a Pinnacle is ideal. Not sure? The golf ball selector gives tailored advice.

Think about the timing

Allow for both the digital proof and production. After approval of the proof, the delivery time is 5–15 working days. So plan your request well before the golf day, especially in the busy spring and summer.

How to request it

Fill in the business quote form with your preferred brand, model, quantity and delivery date, and upload your logo. You will receive a tailored quote and a proof. You will find more inspiration on golf balls for business.

Who has a say, and when

At a corporate golf day an order rarely runs through one person. Marketing guards the logo, purchasing wants to see the quotation and somebody in senior management gives the final nod. Map that route before you enquire, because production time only starts once the proof is approved, not when you send the enquiry.

So agree in advance who reviews the proof and within how many days that happens. One person with authority is quicker than a group replying by email. Include the date you want the balls in hand with your enquiry, so we can work backwards and tell you whether it is achievable.

If your organisation works to brand guidelines, ask which version of the logo is permitted at small sizes. There is often a simplified variant without the strapline or the thin keyline, and that works better on a golf ball. Look at the approach on golf ball printing for businesses as well.

How much do you give each participant?

The choice between a sleeve of three and a dozen per person determines your whole run. At forty participants, a sleeve each is 120 balls; that sits below the minimum of 144, so you round up. At a dozen each, the same group already puts you at 480 balls, where volume discounts on larger quantities work in your favour.

A middle route is a sleeve for everyone and a dozen for the flight winners. That keeps the cost in check and still gives you something substantial for the prize table. If you are unsure, simply ask for two scenarios: prices are on request, and you will then see in black and white what the jump to a higher tier does.

Then round up to whole dozens. Balls are packed by the dozen, so a number in between only leaves you with loose units. The units are set out in how many golf balls are in a box or a dozen.

Guests playing at very different standards

At a corporate golf day, rarely does everybody play with the same regularity. There will be clients with a low handicap, colleagues who get on a course twice a year and guests taking part in a clinic. One model for the whole group is practical, but it is worth knowing that a softer, lower-compression ball suits the occasional golfer better than a premium ball tuned to higher speeds.

If you do want to differentiate, keep it to two models: one for the clinic group and one for the competitive flights. That does mean two minimum orders and two proofs. Let the golf ball selector weigh in, or put your field of participants to us via contact.

Tying the ball into the rest of the day

A printed ball works best when it does not disappear loose into a bag. Combine the sleeve with a scorecard holder, tees and a luggage tag, or lay it on top in the goody bag so the logo is visible as soon as it is opened. On golf balls in a goody bag you can see how that combination is usually put together.

Match the colour of the print to the rest of the day's printed material. If the invitation, the banner and the ball each show a slightly different blue, people notice. So supply the same PMS values everywhere; how that works is covered in how many colours you can print on a golf ball.

Afterwards: filing it away and repeating

Plenty of companies run their golf day annually. So record afterwards which model you ordered, how many, which print colours and which logo file was used. Keep the approved proof in the same folder. When you repeat it, you only have to adjust the quantity and possibly the year.

Review the split as well: did you have balls left over, or did you run short at the prize giving? That number is your starting point next year. Leftover balls without a date can be used through the year as corporate gifts, so nothing sits in a cupboard.

To know who thinks these arrangements through with you, and with what background, read about Mark.