Golf Marathon Planning and Free Websites
Welcome, GolfRegistrations users!
Golf marathons, also known as golf-a-thons or 100-hole golf fundraisers, are peer-to-peer fundraising events where golfers raise money online for organizations they care about.
With our donor-friendly Golf Marathon software, supporters can easily gather support through personal fundraising pages, allowing your organization to extend its reach and boost its fundraising efforts. Golfers register on your event site, customize their fundraising page, and reach out to friends, family, and colleagues through social media and email to collect donations. By leveraging their networks, participants can raise thousands of dollars, all while spreading awareness for your cause. Take your fundraising to the next level with a golf marathon.
How Does Golf Marathon Software Work?
Golf marathons challenge players to play 100 holes of golf in one day or over the duration of the tournament. These events are usually smaller, more intimate golf tournaments with 20-40 players participating.
With a 100-hole golf fundraiser, participants commit to raising money by collecting pledges and donations, rather than paying a registration fee. Golfers often raise $500 or $1,000 by tapping into their friends and family, and motivated golfers can raise much more. Golfers do what they love best, and friends support them by offering per-hole or flat-rate donations. Typically, golfers are not charged to participate in your fundraising golf tournament if they meet minimum fundraising standards. Free golf will undoubtedly provide your golfers with an incentive to fundraise for your organization. Also, consider offering donated prizes or cash awards to the top fundraisers to create healthy competition and motivation.
Use Our Donor-Friendly Golf Marathon Platform for Success
Raise More Money with Our Golf-a-thon Software
Your organization’s golf-a-thon website will be easy to create and customize. Our golf crowdfunding platform includes online registration for golfers and teams, sponsor promotion, and complete event management and fundraising reporting capabilities for your golfers. The administration area provides a player database, storing registration information (name, address, phone, payment details, email), as well as email broadcast and email template capability for event promotion, allowing tournament directors to easily communicate with registered players.
Our Golf Marathon software is a peer-to-peer fundraising website that allows your organization to:
- Manage participant registrations or add participants on the back end
- Host a personal fundraising page for each golfer, including pictures and videos, social media links, and goal achievement progress
- Display top fundraisers and teams (with Fundraising Leaderboards)
- Track fundraising progress with fundraising thermometers at the tournament, team, and player level
- Securely process pledges and donations assigned to golfers and foursomes
- Easily share your golf website via Social Media channels and free text to donate
- Integrate easy, affordable credit card payment processing via Stripe or PayPal
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Beautiful Golf Marathon Websites
Our user-friendly website templates will impress your audience.
- Register players and teams or import golfers for smaller tournaments.
- Registration generates a personal fundraising page, which includes a fundraising statement, videos and photos, social media links, and a fundraising thermometer to track individual goal progress. Donor comments scroll down the page, and donation amounts received are optionally displayed.
- Participants drive potential donors to their personal fundraising page to make secure online donations.
- Event managers configure your custom sponsorship packages and promote your sponsors online.
Fundraising Leaderboards and Thermometers
Competition will motivate your golfers to raise more money for your organization or charitable cause. That’s why our Golf Marathon software template contains fundraising leaderboards with the top individual and team fundraisers and fundraising thermometers that show fundraising progress at the tournament, team and individual player level. With a golf marathon format, your tournament’s success lies in your golfers’ ability to fundraise for your organization. Providing these visual metrics on the golf tournament website is key to your success.
Tip: Throwing in great prizes for top fundraisers will help motivate your players to succeed.
Text Fundraising with Text to Donate
Text-to-donate is a method that uses SMS phone texting to facilitate donations to a nonprofit organization or charitable cause. Text to Donate enables your donors to easily support your organization at any time and from anywhere, directly from their mobile phones. Supporters will text your campaign’s keyword to a designated phone number. In return, they will receive a link to your website to make a mobile donation.
Our Golf Marathon platform features free, unlimited text-to-donate SMS messages for all of your crowdfunding campaigns.
Robust Financial Reporting
Our back-end administration area houses player and team data, allowing administrators to configure settings for a Golf Marathon or golf crowdfunding event where players raise funds. Multiple tournament managers can log in here and work on the tournament, customizing the website and settings.
Financial tracking is essential for managing a fundraising tournament, and our financial reports support both tournament managers and golf courses. Golf Marathon reports include special crowdfunding reporting for top individual and group fundraisers.
Easy Email Management for Branded Communication
Our software features a built-in email system that enables tournament managers to communicate with tournament players via email. Communication with your participants is key to success in crowdfunding campaigns, and we make it easy!
All of our email templates are branded with your organization’s logo. Many auto-generated communications are available as templates to be customized by your management team.
See How It Works
Since 2003, DoJiggy has successfully hosted thousands of fundraising, corporate, and charity golf tournaments. See why we’re the industry leaders in Golf Marathon software and management.
How Long Is a Golf Marathon?
Your organization will determine the duration of the golf-a-thon tournament. Most organizations host a one-day marathon, where participants aim to complete 100 holes in a single day. It can be just as fun to ask your fundraisers to complete 100 holes over a long weekend. Consider your audience when deciding the format and timeframe, as several options suit different preferences and schedules.
An Alternative: Traditional Golf Tournaments
If a golf marathon or 100-hole golf fundraiser isn’t suitable for your organization, we also provide golf tournament registration software for golf scrambles and ticketed tournaments. Each software package includes a golf tournament website with easy online registration for mobile giving campaigns.
