Built around the golf day
This range is focused rather than broad: golf tees, golf balls and ball markers. That covers the event most companies in this space are actually buying for — a corporate golf day, a charity tournament or a client outing — where the items go into a goody bag or onto a tee box.
The split is stark and useful. Tees in bamboo and birch cost pennies and are ordered by the thousand; they are the giveaway. Balls — Titleist Pro V1, Callaway Chrome Soft — are the gift, ordered by the dozen. Ball markers and hat clips sit between the two and are the item most likely to still be in a golf bag next season.
Branded balls are a different purchase
A golfer's ball is a considered choice, and giving a serious player a ball they would not normally use tends to mean it sits in the boot of a car. That is why the range here is Titleist and Callaway rather than an unbranded equivalent — if you are going to spend on balls, spend on ones people already play.
For a mixed field of abilities, tees and markers are the safer spend. Everyone uses a tee, nobody has opinions about them, and the cost per head is a fraction of a sleeve of balls. A common approach is tees and a marker for every participant, with branded balls reserved for prizes.
Minimums run in both directions
This range has the widest spread of minimums in the store, and it runs opposite to what you would expect: the cheap items carry the high minimums and the expensive ones carry the low. Tees are ordered in the thousand; premium balls can be ordered by the dozen.
That is worth planning around. A small tournament can order prize-level balls without difficulty but will end up with far more tees than the field needs — so buy tees for the event and the next two, or scale the order to a number you will actually get through.
Printing on a tee, a ball and a marker
These are three of the smallest imprint areas we deal with. A tee takes a very short mark — a logo or a few characters, nothing more. A golf ball takes a compact logo on a curved white surface, which reproduces well but leaves no room for a tagline. A metal ball marker takes an engraved or printed mark and is the most legible of the three.
Send a simplified, single-colour version of your logo for all of these. If your mark has fine detail, a marker or hat clip will carry it better than a tee will.
Related ranges
See our golf tees, golf balls and divot tools. For the rest of an event package — bags, drinkware and apparel — see bags and totes, drinkware and apparel. If you are outfitting a tournament, tell us the field size and we will put a package together.
