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HOUSTON PROJECTS!!!

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What’s new:

We just shipped a divot bottle table for Golf Club of Houston. We started this style about 4 years ago, which gives a clean look and is simple to use. Sometimes simple is best, right? 

Since we look at the ‘whole picture’ and not just one product’s presentation, we also built their insulated cooler. Just ‘food for thought’, we also make a sand box that looks just like this, but of course isn’t insulated. 

For their tournaments, we made a custom starters box and proximity markers. 

Our shipping department was too fast, and I didn’t get a chance to snap a photo, so here’s the rendering that looks just like the finished product. The RHI Shipping Crew has fast bubble wrapping skills.. 

Another client of ours who we built for this month was the Country Club of Houston. We’re very excited to unveil the finalized tee markers soon (stay tuned) that we’re in production on right now on. Here’s the demos that we worked on before fine-tuning the details. As all of you know, it’s all about the details. The details is what makes your presentation stand out from the competition. 

And then of course, we made Houston National’s Steel Trap Awards, and Blue Jack National’s Hurricane Harvey + AVM tournament trophies. 

Prize Table Ideas

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There’s a lot of details and planning involved in tournaments. One of the questions comes up, what do we give the champions? Do we give a trophy to the flight winners? This past week we’ve worked with a couple of clients that show a great example of a consistent presentation in give-aways. 

First is Blue Jack National. For their Annual AVM Golf Tournament, we used the tournament’s logo as the main focus for their perpetual trophy, and for their champion awards. You can see how nice in looks on their prize ‘table’ (it’s actually  a custom made log bench that we sent them a few years ago). 

We’ve worked with Rib Crip Corp. for several years to make trophies fr their Pit Masters Tournament. Here’s what we did this year. 

This was the first time that we worked with Desert Lakes Golf Club in Fort Movae, AZ. We worked closely with their gm in producing what he envisioned. We engraved their sponsor info on the top plates of the trophy bases. 

Last up for this post, is the annunal ‘Swing & Sting’ trophies that we have done the past few years for Victory Ranch in Utah. 

Amp up your presentation with Tournament Supplies

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Tournament Cases and Starter Trays add presentation value to your event as well as keep need-to-have items readily available.

Here’s the starter trays that we shipped out lately: 1) Large tray for The Los Angeles Country Club. 2) Ak’chin Southern Dunes -Troon facility 3) Winged Foot 4) The Clubs at St. James

 

Next is the tournament case with clasps that we made for the USGA to take to The Walker Cup. You can’t get classier than this..

Painted driftwood or branches might be your thing, but come tournaments it’s time to amp up your presentation value with custom tee markers.. 

If you’re tired of painting wooden blocks or branches (isn’t everyone except the committee?), then we can design/build low-maintenance and beautiful custom tee markers for your course.

 

Last, but not least, is tournament prizes (of course). Anyone can give out generic crystal, but a custom trophy can be one of the best marketing pieces for your tournament that creates such a buzz and becomes part of your tournament and club’s identity. Really. 

Here’s what’s come out our doors this past week for trophies. You’ll see the variety in our designs, and that we design specifically for our clients who are as different from each other as can be. 

Clear Creek Tahoe wanted trophies for their The Rivalry tournament to look like an old saw. After months of developing the design, we got it! 

Here’s the rest that came out our doors (: 

 

 

 

 

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Tournament Tee Markers & More!

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This week was the week of tee markers and trophies.. 

First off are the 5 sets of tee markers that we made for The Meadows at Mystic Lake. 

We also made tournament markers for an event held at the Lake Forest CC. Their event had a tournament logo and a sponsor logo. We thought about making a double sided tee marker, but after thinking about it, we all decided to do 18 with one logo and 18 of the other logo for a sleeker presentation. 

Then we made A-frame tee markers for the Remission Foundation event. This is particularly a great style if you need to stack and store them (perfect for event markers). 

We’ve made trophies for Eagle Bend for years, but this year they wanted to add-on tournament tee markers to ramp up the presentation.

For awards we made juniper tree trophies for Pronghorn, mammoths for Snowmass and cowboys for The Club at Olde Hawthorne. You can tell that we make a wide variety of awards.. Each one is designed for our particular client to fit what works for them best. 

We also make perpetual boards, here’s one we shipped for Toscana. 

On the range accessory front, let’s start with signs:

Then there’s insulated coolers like the ones that we did for Sonoma. 

Also for water solutions, we built a metal version of a teak beverage station. 

Last to share today is the custom bench that we made for Pronghorn. 

 

 

Promoting your Tournament with RHI Golf

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Is your golf tournament filled with excited players?

PROMOTE*PROMOTE*PROMOTE

Promote the prizes that you’re giving out, and you may see a significant increase of player registration. Our sales team usually sends you photos of your awards before they ship in our photo booth to get you excited. Why not share that excitement with everyone else? Maybe post it on your twitter/instagram/Facebook pages. Sometimes  you’ll get tagged by us on Twitter when we ship your awards because we want to share the excitement about the trophies that you helped design. We want to show them off! You should too. 

MORE PROMOTION: One of the many reasons to order your awards for an in-hand date a month before your event, is that you can then display your carefully thought out prizes in the golf shop to get members buzzing about your event. 

Horse race events are perfect for our custom horseshoe awards. Martis Camp did these for their event, and they turned out great. We engraved their logo so that we could show off the detail on their club logo. One horseshoe has their tourney logo, and the other their club logo (2 different events). 

Squire Creek did great and contacted us early January with a list of events with themes that they wanted us to design for. The Peach Invitational trophies are one of the several that we’ve created. For each event we kept their base consistent with color and logo placement. 

Skagit G&CC have a few different designs for their winners which gives variety to their prize table. They also sometimes  give out a member award. This year they have a member that they honoring who loves the casino, so we designed a ‘winnings’ award with metal cash. It’s a nice idea to honor your members this way. 

Sonnenalp had the idea for the hummingbird and sent us a sketch and photo that we worked from. We love bring your creative genius to life! Then they had us create a perpetual shootout trophy with replica pistols. 

Windsong Farm carefully and collectively came up with their Champion Paso Fino plaques designs. We worked with them to create a ‘just right’ award that they’re proud to give out. Their flight winner awards keep the rustic them but in a standard trophy style with a horseshoe.

Rock Barn‘s Member-Guest awards focused on their logo and club colors with a clean look. Sometimes just keep it simple and promote your brand. Your trophies don’t have to have a theme every time. Branding is important!

Champions Retreat chose to make their champion trophies’ focal point a tree that all their members will recognize as their ‘broccoli’ tree. This award is special to their club and no other club! Then they broke away from the crowd by doing a completely different design and color scheme for their flight winners. They used their state of Georgia’s silhouette and the star indicates where their club is; Evans, Georgia & proud!

Chambersburg CC chose to make their base the shape of Pennsylvania where their club is. Pennsylvania & proud! The color of the base matches the color of the trees’ trunks at their facility. We made their logo as a 2nd focal point on their award. The tree is 3 layers to give more dimension and not let it look ‘flat’. 

Sunset CC did a few different awards for their Invitational with us, which is featured in the last blog. This bocce ball award was a last minute order. The bocce ball featured actually was replaced with a tournament bocce ball, but I didn’t get a photo of it before it shipped. Time was of the essence on this project. 

That’s all for the ‘Promote your Tournament’ blog today! Thanks for all your support!

All about the trophies

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Hi everyone. We are in the thick of tournament season, and are living breathing trophies; really. We’re excited to show you what we’ve been up to thanks to the creative minds of our clients and designers. 

Our welder created a 3D tree award based on photos our clients sent. Here’s what we did for Champions Run’s oak tree. We’ll have more trees to look at soon.We’re about to make one that’s modeled from the course’s tree that resembles broccoli.. We get all kinds of requests here at RHI..

For the ladies’ tournaments, Blue Jack chose a 3D flower award, and then we made the Gold Shoe award for a local organization. 

Derby trophies are fun to make. Here’s Spurwing’s derby award. They chose a 4″ steel base that our welders created ‘tree bark’. Because it’s made from steel, there’s weight to it despite the ‘small’ size.. Then there’s a horseshoe on our ‘standard’ base made for a private tourney. Clean and simple. 

We’ve worked with Pete Dye the last few year’s, and it’s been fun making 3D coal carts. They have a coal cart on their facility, which makes these trophies unique to their club. That’s what we encourage clients to do; showcase something that is unique to their club like a specific tree, or something that’s a landmark theme.

We made tomahawks for Wyoming Valley’s winners, shotguns for a charity event, and clubs/shot guns trophies for the Big Sky & Birdie event in Montana. 

The Whipporwill trophies are a good example of how a color change can be all that’s needed to make a trophy fresh. They’ve done 2 shades of blue and then debuted with red steam shovels. Their event is called The Steamshovel Invitational. 

For Red Rock CC, we used round trophies for their champions, and square awards for their flight winners. We layered their rock logo for a dimensional effect. Then we made a 3D lamp post, which is Carmel Country Club’s logo. Our designer first created this design at the 2016 PGA Show while they were talking to us. 

Elmcrest CC is doing several events with us. These creative trophies came from sketches that they sent us, and then we made them 100% custom. 

That’s all we have for trophies to share today. You’re welcome to browse our tournament supply section for more ideas. We update our galleries weekly. 

Trophies & More

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We’re getting a lot of calls about trophies lately, and we’re gearing up for a great 2017 trophy season. If you want some inspiration, here’s what we’ve been up to lately on the award side of things. 

The Masters awards in the shape of your state have been getting quite a few requests. Our welder might not be a fan of it, but the uniquely shaped awards are really cool. 

Squire Creek CC did that Par 3 award (above) and (below) the flower trophy, as well as the scary skull/crossbones. Here’s an easy example of how we can make each of your awards look different from each other if you’d like. That way each tournament has their own unique identity/brand. Or we can keep it consistent. Whatever you prefer. 

Next is the cannon awards for Gaillardia. We really like these and they work great for matchplay trophies. 

Here’s another state themed trophy but in a different style. Reynolds Lake Oconee asked us to make these a 2nd year in a row. 

Here’s what the Florida State Golf Association had us do for their shootout events. Their logo looks really nice, but we can also make a skeet there in case its a skeet shooting event. 

2nd roadrunner themed award for La Quinta CC. To mix things up for this event, we changed the shape of the base from rectangle to a ‘freehand’ shape. We got a little artistic here. 

Have you been searching for a bear trophy? Here’s a flight winner award that’s bear themed for Toscana CC. 

Here’s the Hole In One Plaque that we made for Twin Orchards.

Besides trophies, we’ve been busy with tee markers lately. Here’s a look at what some other courses are up to. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Signs we have the Pace of Play Check Sign for Stone Canyon, & the PGA West ‘NO CARTS’ sign. 

That’s all for today’s blog. Thanks, and have a great weekend!