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Corporate golf outing planning
A corporate golf outing is a networking event with a round of golf attached. Clients, prospects, and colleagues mix on the course all day, and the real business happens between shots and after the round. Your job as organizer is to set up a day that runs so smoothly nobody has to think about the mechanics. Start with these five pieces.
Set the date, format, and budget
Pick a date the company can commit to, and book the course early — good courses on good weekends go fast. Then choose a format that suits mixed ability, because your field will span single-digit handicaps and people who mostly ride in the cart. A scramble is the standard corporate choice: everyone tees off, the team plays from the best ball, and so on down the fairway. Every golfer contributes without any one player carrying the group.
Set a clear per-person budget before you open registration — greens fees, cart, lunch, and prizes are the big lines. A typical line for a corporate day:
Greens fees + cart ($60–$120) · lunch ($15–$30) · prizes and swag ($10–$20) · scoring on Chase Birdies ($1 per player). Total usually lands between $90 and $170 per player depending on the course and the catering.
Decide the number up front so cost never becomes an obstacle, and so the day stays a net positive for the budget.
Build the company field
Pair clients with colleagues deliberately — the point of the day is relationships, so mix teams instead of letting office cliques form naturally. A simple sign-up that collects name, company, email, and golfing ability (beginner, casual, serious) is enough to build balanced foursomes.
Collect contact details at registration; they are your follow-up list. Once the field is in, settle a final roster and lay out tee times or a shotgun start with starting holes assigned, so groups keep moving all morning.
Keep scoring simple
A corporate day should feel effortless, not like a spreadsheet exercise. With Chase Birdies you set up the event in your dashboard — name, course, date, format, and player count — and when it's live, players enter their own scores hole by hole from their phones. A link is all they need: no app to install, no account to create. Course par auto-fills where data is available, and you can add a course manually when it isn't.
The live leaderboard updates as scores come in and sorts itself, leader on top. Share it with a public link anyone can check, or keep it to the field with a 4-digit PIN. The whole thing costs $1 per player — no subscription, no per-transaction fees. That is the entire scoring bill, settled before the first tee.
Run a smooth day
Start on time and keep the schedule visible. One person should own the scoring on the day, though letting players enter their own scores works just as well — every score stays editable until the round is final, so a mis-typed number is a ten-second fix instead of a re-tally.
- 7:30 — Registration, coffee, and sponsor signage up
- 8:15 — Welcome: format, rules, and tee-time assignments
- 8:30 — Shotgun start
- 12:30 — Lunch served
- 1:30–2:00 — Results, awards, and a short program
- 2:30 — Wrap-up
Because the leaderboard is live, winners settle the moment the last group finishes — the awards talk stays short and fun.
Follow up with the team
The outing's real value is the relationships you keep after the round. Within a week, share the results link and a few photos, thank the clients who played, and note the conversations you had. Keep the leaderboard up so the field can relive the finish, and file the contact list — that's next year's guest list.