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Increase Tournament Registration -Easy Tip!

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Ordering your 2018 Spring & Summer tournament awards in January is good because: 1) LESS STRESS -There’s less stress for everyone when you have your trophies in-hand before your event. 2) PROMOTION -Trophies can create a buzz if you share a photo of it to your members through social media, etc. or have the champion awards in the golf shop for display.. I’ve heard that promoting the prizes increases registration numbers. 3) SAVE ON SHIPPING -It may seem obvious, but when you order early, we can use Ground shipping, which costs less than expedited shipping… Our clients know that they can count on us to help for a last-minute trophy order (within reason of course), but if you can, why not order early?

Here’s a look at the tournament prizes that we shipped out this past week: 

 

Spanish Oaks Golf Club in Bee Cave, Texas did a bulk order for their 2018 tournament prizes (smart idea). 

 

 Travis Matthew is giving out these awards next week at the 2018 PGA Show in Orlando, Florida for their top sales reps:

Here’s a few more trophies that have come out of our shop this past couple of weeks. As you can see clubs are gearing up for tournament season!!

 

 

 

 

Getting Ready for Spring with Driving Range Supplies

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We won’t be at the 2018 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando this month, but we’d love to set up a time to talk over the phone about your next project!

Contact us at 208.635.5203 Ext 102 or [email protected] 

 

Here at RHI Headquarters it may be snowing outside and freezing, but we’re in-gear for Spring Opening Day. Our clients are ordering early, and we’re getting their custom projects out the door! We’re going to give you the ‘rundown’ today on what we’ve been building lately so that you can get inspiration and then get started with us on the design/order process. 

Talking Rock put in an order for the barrel ball buckets. These hold about 150 balls and give their driving range a unique presentation that traditional ball pyramids just don’t give..

The Country Club at Winter Haven was our ‘guinea pig’ with our new ball tray design. Yesterday, I received at email from our contact there, and Josh said that they really like these trays. As a custom shop, we make things for the ‘first time’ weekly. It keeps things creative and interesting. 

Another custom project that we were asked to do was for San Jose CC. We built a custom sand & seed table with sections for amenities like tees, divot repair tools, ball marks, etc. Then we did a divot mix box for Pine Canyon CC. 

 

 We shipped out mini-flags for Teton Springs yesterday, and then some for Vasari last week. 

 

Now for Golf Course Signage,  Mirabel had us make new pool signs for them. They turned out nice in my humble opinion..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s the driving range clock sign that we did for Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club, and the parking log sign that we did for Troon Country Club (show without the post). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s the trash enclosure, yardage sign and driving range ALL IN ONE COMBO that Fiddler’s Elbow had us custom design for them. This was produced from a sketch that they emailed us..

 

 

We’re starting on the Roaring Forks Club driving range project, but here’s a sneak peak at one of their products; club cleaners. They are using a textured hammer color called ‘Bronze Hammer’. It’s a new powder coat that we’ve been using for a couple of clubs, and it looks really nice..

Even though it’s January NOW IS THE TIME to start putting in your trophy orders if you can for Spring and Summer. It’s good having your trophies early because 1) less stress 2) trophies can create a buzz if you share a photo of it to your members and/or have the champion awards in the golf shop for display.. Here’s a look at the trophies that we made for The Crosby Club, Southern Dunes and a Hole-in-One award. 

 

More tournament supplies that came out this past week were the proximity markers for Annandale Club + starter boxes & trays for Capital City. 

Thanks for reading our blog. The SPRING SEASON IS COMING, so there will be much more to post very soon!!

 

HOUSTON PROJECTS!!!

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What’s new:

We just shipped a divot bottle table for Golf Club of Houston. We started this style about 4 years ago, which gives a clean look and is simple to use. Sometimes simple is best, right? 

Since we look at the ‘whole picture’ and not just one product’s presentation, we also built their insulated cooler. Just ‘food for thought’, we also make a sand box that looks just like this, but of course isn’t insulated. 

For their tournaments, we made a custom starters box and proximity markers. 

Our shipping department was too fast, and I didn’t get a chance to snap a photo, so here’s the rendering that looks just like the finished product. The RHI Shipping Crew has fast bubble wrapping skills.. 

Another client of ours who we built for this month was the Country Club of Houston. We’re very excited to unveil the finalized tee markers soon (stay tuned) that we’re in production on right now on. Here’s the demos that we worked on before fine-tuning the details. As all of you know, it’s all about the details. The details is what makes your presentation stand out from the competition. 

And then of course, we made Houston National’s Steel Trap Awards, and Blue Jack National’s Hurricane Harvey + AVM tournament trophies. 

Prize Table Ideas

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There’s a lot of details and planning involved in tournaments. One of the questions comes up, what do we give the champions? Do we give a trophy to the flight winners? This past week we’ve worked with a couple of clients that show a great example of a consistent presentation in give-aways. 

First is Blue Jack National. For their Annual AVM Golf Tournament, we used the tournament’s logo as the main focus for their perpetual trophy, and for their champion awards. You can see how nice in looks on their prize ‘table’ (it’s actually  a custom made log bench that we sent them a few years ago). 

We’ve worked with Rib Crip Corp. for several years to make trophies fr their Pit Masters Tournament. Here’s what we did this year. 

This was the first time that we worked with Desert Lakes Golf Club in Fort Movae, AZ. We worked closely with their gm in producing what he envisioned. We engraved their sponsor info on the top plates of the trophy bases. 

Last up for this post, is the annunal ‘Swing & Sting’ trophies that we have done the past few years for Victory Ranch in Utah. 

Amp up your presentation with Tournament Supplies

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Tournament Cases and Starter Trays add presentation value to your event as well as keep need-to-have items readily available.

Here’s the starter trays that we shipped out lately: 1) Large tray for The Los Angeles Country Club. 2) Ak’chin Southern Dunes -Troon facility 3) Winged Foot 4) The Clubs at St. James

 

Next is the tournament case with clasps that we made for the USGA to take to The Walker Cup. You can’t get classier than this..

Painted driftwood or branches might be your thing, but come tournaments it’s time to amp up your presentation value with custom tee markers.. 

If you’re tired of painting wooden blocks or branches (isn’t everyone except the committee?), then we can design/build low-maintenance and beautiful custom tee markers for your course.

 

Last, but not least, is tournament prizes (of course). Anyone can give out generic crystal, but a custom trophy can be one of the best marketing pieces for your tournament that creates such a buzz and becomes part of your tournament and club’s identity. Really. 

Here’s what’s come out our doors this past week for trophies. You’ll see the variety in our designs, and that we design specifically for our clients who are as different from each other as can be. 

Clear Creek Tahoe wanted trophies for their The Rivalry tournament to look like an old saw. After months of developing the design, we got it! 

Here’s the rest that came out our doors (: 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading our blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Promoting your Tournament with RHI Golf

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Is your golf tournament filled with excited players?

PROMOTE*PROMOTE*PROMOTE

Promote the prizes that you’re giving out, and you may see a significant increase of player registration. Our sales team usually sends you photos of your awards before they ship in our photo booth to get you excited. Why not share that excitement with everyone else? Maybe post it on your twitter/instagram/Facebook pages. Sometimes  you’ll get tagged by us on Twitter when we ship your awards because we want to share the excitement about the trophies that you helped design. We want to show them off! You should too. 

MORE PROMOTION: One of the many reasons to order your awards for an in-hand date a month before your event, is that you can then display your carefully thought out prizes in the golf shop to get members buzzing about your event. 

Horse race events are perfect for our custom horseshoe awards. Martis Camp did these for their event, and they turned out great. We engraved their logo so that we could show off the detail on their club logo. One horseshoe has their tourney logo, and the other their club logo (2 different events). 

Squire Creek did great and contacted us early January with a list of events with themes that they wanted us to design for. The Peach Invitational trophies are one of the several that we’ve created. For each event we kept their base consistent with color and logo placement. 

Skagit G&CC have a few different designs for their winners which gives variety to their prize table. They also sometimes  give out a member award. This year they have a member that they honoring who loves the casino, so we designed a ‘winnings’ award with metal cash. It’s a nice idea to honor your members this way. 

Sonnenalp had the idea for the hummingbird and sent us a sketch and photo that we worked from. We love bring your creative genius to life! Then they had us create a perpetual shootout trophy with replica pistols. 

Windsong Farm carefully and collectively came up with their Champion Paso Fino plaques designs. We worked with them to create a ‘just right’ award that they’re proud to give out. Their flight winner awards keep the rustic them but in a standard trophy style with a horseshoe.

Rock Barn‘s Member-Guest awards focused on their logo and club colors with a clean look. Sometimes just keep it simple and promote your brand. Your trophies don’t have to have a theme every time. Branding is important!

Champions Retreat chose to make their champion trophies’ focal point a tree that all their members will recognize as their ‘broccoli’ tree. This award is special to their club and no other club! Then they broke away from the crowd by doing a completely different design and color scheme for their flight winners. They used their state of Georgia’s silhouette and the star indicates where their club is; Evans, Georgia & proud!

Chambersburg CC chose to make their base the shape of Pennsylvania where their club is. Pennsylvania & proud! The color of the base matches the color of the trees’ trunks at their facility. We made their logo as a 2nd focal point on their award. The tree is 3 layers to give more dimension and not let it look ‘flat’. 

Sunset CC did a few different awards for their Invitational with us, which is featured in the last blog. This bocce ball award was a last minute order. The bocce ball featured actually was replaced with a tournament bocce ball, but I didn’t get a photo of it before it shipped. Time was of the essence on this project. 

That’s all for the ‘Promote your Tournament’ blog today! Thanks for all your support!

All about the trophies

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Hi everyone. We are in the thick of tournament season, and are living breathing trophies; really. We’re excited to show you what we’ve been up to thanks to the creative minds of our clients and designers. 

Our welder created a 3D tree award based on photos our clients sent. Here’s what we did for Champions Run’s oak tree. We’ll have more trees to look at soon.We’re about to make one that’s modeled from the course’s tree that resembles broccoli.. We get all kinds of requests here at RHI..

For the ladies’ tournaments, Blue Jack chose a 3D flower award, and then we made the Gold Shoe award for a local organization. 

Derby trophies are fun to make. Here’s Spurwing’s derby award. They chose a 4″ steel base that our welders created ‘tree bark’. Because it’s made from steel, there’s weight to it despite the ‘small’ size.. Then there’s a horseshoe on our ‘standard’ base made for a private tourney. Clean and simple. 

We’ve worked with Pete Dye the last few year’s, and it’s been fun making 3D coal carts. They have a coal cart on their facility, which makes these trophies unique to their club. That’s what we encourage clients to do; showcase something that is unique to their club like a specific tree, or something that’s a landmark theme.

We made tomahawks for Wyoming Valley’s winners, shotguns for a charity event, and clubs/shot guns trophies for the Big Sky & Birdie event in Montana. 

The Whipporwill trophies are a good example of how a color change can be all that’s needed to make a trophy fresh. They’ve done 2 shades of blue and then debuted with red steam shovels. Their event is called The Steamshovel Invitational. 

For Red Rock CC, we used round trophies for their champions, and square awards for their flight winners. We layered their rock logo for a dimensional effect. Then we made a 3D lamp post, which is Carmel Country Club’s logo. Our designer first created this design at the 2016 PGA Show while they were talking to us. 

Elmcrest CC is doing several events with us. These creative trophies came from sketches that they sent us, and then we made them 100% custom. 

That’s all we have for trophies to share today. You’re welcome to browse our tournament supply section for more ideas. We update our galleries weekly.