Mini Golf Charity Classic

The answer to this question depends upon your goal for the session. Sometimes, participants are comprised of several teams from one department. In these cases, our clients tend to like to preset the teams so that people can interact with people they don’t work with on a regular basis. Other times, groups are comprised of a single team or department and randomly assigning teams works fine.

We can randomize small groups on the spot, but for groups larger than 20 people, we recommend you form the teams ahead of time. If you are preselecting the teams, we suggest you disseminate this information to the participants either at the program or prior to the event. We do not recommend reading off of a list at the beginning of the program.

A typical program runs 2.5-3 hours. Due to the nature of this program, we don’t recommend changing the time more than that.

An hour is good for groups up to 100 people.

No. The shear volume of food prevents this.

: I’m sorry, this really doesn’t work. The bulk of the set up is dealing with the shear volume of food.

The ideal set up is 12 square feet per team with 3 8’ rectangular tables for program supplies at the front of the room (for up to 10 teams), a screen, projector, sound system and microphone (for groups of 35+), and trash cans in each corner of the room. Some chairs around the perimeter of the room are useful.

Please warn people that this activity involves sitting on the floor so they can decide if they want to wear a skirt
or not. Wearing a skirt is not out of the question, but people usually appreciate the warning. No one has to sit on
the floor if they don’t want to. That’s why we provide some chairs around the room.

We typically play for Honor, Glory, and Bragging Rights. If you choose to go above and beyond that, we
recommend keeping the prizes small. Anything more than a small gift certificate changes the program from happy,
fun team building to nasty, cut-throat competition. The only thing that can be judged here is the golf hole itself.
Judging by gold score doesn’t really work because not everybody will be able to golf all the holes and people will
golf different numbers of holes, so there’s no good way to do this.

If you get messy, something has gone very wrong.

No. There are cutting implements in use. Alcohol would be a safety hazard.

We very strongly discourage this. The directions are very complicated and we will need everyone’s full attention.

No. We have to keep the food sanitary. Water, bugs, and the sun beating on canned goods is not healthy.

There are really 2 aspects to this answer. The first part is: People are given golf score cards to keep track of
their game, but we never use these for anything. At the end of the event we give participants the chance to vote
for their favorite hole that is not their own. The second part is: There are several competitive team building games
at the beginning of this activity where people earn the food and art supplies used in construction. Each game has 1
winner, and that winner gets a special thing that makes their hole unique. We have a loop, for example.

That’s a different program.

I’m not sure this is possible. If you can think of something, we can talk about it.

An hour or more. Please warn the venue that this produces an incredible amount of trash so they can be
prepared for it.

We have partnerships with local food banks in major cities. It is our goal to have a local representative come to
thank your group for their generosity and talk about the impact on the local community.

Sure! They just need to be able to pick up the food at the end of the program.

We work with the local food bank to see what’s on their wish list. We typically have a mix of 70 canned and
boxed food items per team.

We do our best to donate them to a local animal shelter. (Some shelters love these and some refuse them.)

No. The courses are so different from regular golf courses that there is no advantage.