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Wine for a golf club: the trophy dinner and the competition prizes
The Sunday competition ends at the clubhouse: a drink while the cards go up, the prize-giving, then dinner. Two purchases, made differently: the wine people drink, counted to the glass, and the wine handed out, chosen to be shown off. Set here for eighty players and partners.
The wine for the drinks and the dinner
Set for 80 guests, one hour of drinks while the results are worked out, a seated dinner, 75% drinkers: the players came by car and the club is rarely in the town centre. Sixty drinkers: twenty bottles at the drinks, thirty at dinner. With the 10% margin and cases of six, the calculator shows 66 bottles: twelve sparkling, twenty-four white, six rosé, twenty-four red.
The prizes: a price ladder, not a pile of bottles
A competition ranks gross and net, often by division, with two or three separate contests (longest drive, nearest the pin). The prize has to rise with the placing, without the last winner leaving embarrassed. An example for a club competition with two divisions, 26 prizes:
| Prize | Idea | Number | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross winners | A magnum of a classified growth, kept in its wooden case | 2 | 2 × €150 |
| Net winners, per division | A bottle of a classified growth | 2 | 2 × €70 |
| 2nd and 3rd net, per division | A second wine of a classified growth or a top cru bourgeois | 4 | 4 × €35 |
| 4th to 10th net, per division | A good Bordeaux that is ready to drink, same château for all | 14 | 14 × €18 |
| Longest drive, nearest the pin | A bottle of sparkling | 4 | 4 × €32 |
| Total | 26 | ≈ €960 |
Indicative ranges, exact prices on the quote. One château per rung of the ladder: the prize table looks better, and nobody compares their prize with their neighbour's.
Who pays, and in whose name
Three cases come up. The club pays for its prizes from the sports association's budget: invoice in the association's name. A company sponsors a competition, the “cup” that bears its name: invoice to the company, which can also offer the wine for the drinks. A member offers the prizes for their own cup: invoice in their name. In all three cases, a written quote in advance saves you paying twice as much in a shop on Saturday for the last prize bottle.
The clubhouse has its own licence or a restaurateur: the wine for the dinner then often goes through them. The prizes, on the other hand, aren't drunk on site and are bought separately.
The club's other occasions
| Event | What changes |
|---|---|
| Annual general meeting and drinks | Standing, one hour: sparkling and white, one bottle for every five people present |
| End-of-season party | Dinner and dancing: add two hours of party in the calculator |
| Club anniversary | A bottle from the year the club was founded for the committee; the birth-year vintage page says what is still drinking well |
| Corporate competition | The company invites its clients: higher-value prizes, invoice to the company |
How many bottles for a prize-giving dinner for 80 people?
66, margin included, for one hour of drinks and a dinner: twelve sparkling, twenty-four white, six rosé, twenty-four red. As a raw count, fifty. The calculator adjusts to your number of guests and the share of drivers.
What budget for golf competition prizes?
For a club competition with two divisions and 26 prizes, allow €900 to €1,000 in wine: magnums for the gross winners, bottles of classified growths for the net winners, a good Bordeaux for the places after that.
Can you give wine as a prize at a sports competition?
Yes: a club or a sponsor can hand out bottles as prizes. What is regulated is advertising: the Loi Évin (the French law restricting alcohol advertising) forbids an alcohol brand from sponsoring the event. The prizes are bought by the club or by the company sponsoring the competition, with no wine logo on the posters.
The players are driving home: what should you plan?
Water, juices and proper soft drinks alongside the wine, a dinner that starts early, and the drinkers count lowered to 75% or less. The wine and drivers page puts figures on the alcohol-free drinks.
Clubhouse mistakes
- Buying the prizes the day before. Twenty-six bottles from a shop on Saturday means twenty-six different labels and full price.
- A great wine for the last prize, an ordinary wine for the first. The ladder shows on the prize table; the players look at it.
- Leaving the wine in the sun. The prize table outside, in June, all afternoon: the bottles go home cooked. Keep them indoors until the prize-giving.
Another sport, a rugby-style “third half”, a regatta? The sports clubs page does the same work. For another format, the general calculator. For the prizes and the dinner, request a quote, giving the number of prizes and the date of the competition.