4 Great Reasons to Hire a Golf Tournament Photographer
As events go for a company or association, not many beat a well-organized Golf Tournament. With all the work that goes into putting it all together, you want to take full advantage of the marketing opportunities so you are promoting your Golf Tournament, and photos are perfect to accomplish this.
Here are 4 great reasons that you may not have thoughts of why having a Golf Tournament Photographer is a must for your Golf Tournament.
1. Marketing Assets
By far this is the top reason for a Golf Tournament Photographer. There are more marketing opportunities at a golf tournament than you can shake a broken golf club at.
Getting “LIVE” photos throughout the tournament to your Social Media team for them to post reminds everyone who did not make it what they are missing and participants comment and interact with the images. Your Social Media team will love you for this as it increases engagement for your social media pages. WIN-WIN
Then 6 months down the road, images can be used to remind everyone what a good time they had. This puts a mental note in their head to plan to make the next one.
But wait that’s not all!! You also now have images to promote the next tournament showing (not just telling with text) what a great time it was. This makes each future golf tournament bigger and better than the one before.
2. Collaboration
Here at Infinite Eye Photography, we are always strong proponents of creating win-win situations. Be it with different companies or between departments within a company, working together gets more for everyone involved.
The same goes for a Golf Tournament. Chances are that you will be having different companies or departments manage different holes with tables, a tent and people connecting with Golfers as they play through. They too would benefit our first great reason by having marketing material for use and to share with their networks to boost your amazing golf tournament. Knowing this, it is simple to ask your golf tournament photographer to focus a bit of time on each of these partners of yours. They then can share images in the form of posts that increases the events marketing footprint.
3. Networking Opportunities
Of course, this was one - it is one of the main reasons why you are running the event if the first place right?
Making your Golf Tournament the best networking event of the summer is huge! If your event can help your attendees be more successful by connecting them with potential clients, this means that your Tournament is valuable to them. If it is valuable, they will have the mindset that “They can’t miss it.” and they tell others to bring more to your event. Another WIN-WIN situation.
Photos and the simple addition of names to the photos can increase this value to people. Think about it, with all that is going on, it is hard to remember names AND faces.
As they say, a photo says 1000 words. We have ways of making them talk!!
4. Enjoyment
Sometimes overlooked because of how simple it seems but people like photos. Something like a golf Tournament four-some photos can bring back the feeling of a great time and fun memories that happened. Even if there was rain during a portion of the round, looking at a photo of everyone wet has people saying “Oh ya - remember when it rained on us?” and they have fond memories of the group pulling through together during a literally rainy time.
This enjoyment part is very evident when we create a photo slide show and show it while golfers are networking, having a beverage or sitting down to eat together. Everyone’s eyes are watching the show looking for a photo of them. When they see that photo of them driving the ball down the fairway (or even off into the rough) they smile and enjoy that visual moment.
Which of these compelling reasons to have a photographer at your next golf tournament would your company benefit from? To learn more about Infinite Eye’s approach to Golf Tournament Photography, visit our Golf Tournament Photography page or one of our Golf Course Partners.
