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Golf-that warm-weather madness-tips the top of approved business networking activities with a tournament or three guaranteed to be headlining your organization's corporate or sponsorship summer events calendar. Whether booking an important client golf date, or helming the details for the annual tourney or a charity golf event, consider the following ideas for hitting a long drive of freshness into the game: The Playing Field Member access to top private clubs certainly helps in the prestige department, but we love the uniqueness of Wooden Sticks, a public course just north of Toronto, where 12 of its 18 holes are replicas of world-famous golf holes from the PGA tour. Course closures are applicable to events up to 144 players for a simultaneous shotgun start. Thinking golf retreat? Six on-site luxury cabins accommodate four people each, while the light-filled Wooden Sticks Pavilion hosts banquets for up to 200 people.
Tread in the footsteps of the masters at Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham, Ont., the 2007 host of the Bell Canadian Open. Two distinctive 18-hole courses spread out around a sprawling Victorian-style clubhouse where four stylish banquet rooms with panoramic views accommodate 24 to 400 people. A permanent marquee tent offers outdoor entertaining for up to 180. Go for the curiosity draw of freshly minted courses. New on the golf circuit is Mississauga's BraeBen Golf Course, a Scottish links-style 18-holer with a 200-seat clubhouse-dining lounge. Just outside of Woodbridge, Ont., The Club at Bond Head offers two distinctive golf experiences: dramatic elevation changes on the new North course -opening this Canada Day-and the more daunting challenge of the links-style roughs and bunkers of the South course. A stately clubhouse with wrap-around verandah offers banquet facilities for up to 350 people, fine dining for 40 or casual à la carte service for 80.
Hole In One Winners Indulge in star treatment by having tournament participants play with the real McCoy. Representing top names in golf, sports and entertainment, Landmark Sport Canada and IMG Canada can hook up corporate and charity golf tourneys with celebrity players such as Masters-champion Mike Weir.
Warm up and rejuvenate guests' tired muscles with special golf massage therapy by Massage On Wheels. An ideal sponsorship opportunity, position the massage tents around the course or offer a pre- or post-golf spa station at the clubhouse. Brand The Game Gift players with beyond 20-20 “course” vision. Awarded a PGA honour for best new product, Visiball Golf Ball Finders look like stylish sunglasses but the tinted lenses are scientifically engineered to turn everything dark blue making the “glow” of white golf balls easy to spot.
Using “sport movement” video and digital photography, See Your Game captures each golfers swing in freeze-frame action and a group photo shot and delivers the photos in a Personal Swing Booklet to participants at the end of the day. Pages within the booklet are customizable for sponsor messages. Post-event, the relationship building continues with e-mails on behalf of the event sponsor inviting participants online to view their photos and full-motion swing video with analysis and improvement tips by an accredited CPGA golf instructor.
www.woodensticks.com • www.angusglen.com
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