How well attended is your Men's prize giving night?

[Kennysarmy]

Our club seems to struggle to even get those who are winners or runners up to turn up to the event.

Is this the same clubs over or is my club not doing something quite right?

 

[Mel Smooth]

Our prizes are given after the Captains Drive in (which will be in April) - I suspect it will be reasonably well attended as the guy coming is is a popular fella at the club, and the lady who is handing over the baton seems to have done a good job.

As we don't have any mens and womens sections it's not specifically restricted to a mens prize giving of course.

 

[GreiginFife]

One club has the Men's prize night at the end of summer and it's well attended but it certainly has reduced year on year. It's quite central and easy to get to so that's not really an excuse.

Other club has an overall prize evening (men/lady/junior) and it's incredibly well attended. Big difference I note in the two clubs is that the latter's clubhouse is always busy even with social members whereas the other isn't.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

We held our Gents and Mixed prize presentation two Fridays ago - combined it with our Gents AGM. Maybe 70 members in attendance.

Ladies had theirs combined with their AGM...and also included and recognized Mixed comp winners as the Gents did.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Nope, ours died a death so they no longer have it in the evening as a stand alone event. Now they do it after, I think, the Captain's drive out, ending his captaincy in October. This is a shotgun start event so everyone is there in the clubhouse afterwards at the same time.

Plenty will still leave before things are given out but it is not quite so awkwardly empty.

If clubs are struggling to get people for these events, rather than fight it, accept times have changed. Tag it on to the end of a popular event when you know people will be in attendance. That, or just don't both with any ceremony and hand things over as and when players are in the clubhouse. It really isn't that big a deal.

 

[Bobthesock]

Ours is very poorly attended but they still refuse to change anything about it. Suggestions like having after another popular event seem a good idea.
But no it's still the same old 1970s menu and passive aggressive emails about "supporting your club".

 

[Slab]

One club has less than half a dozen prizes each year outside monthly comps etc and its done after club champs day 2 when most are at the evening/dinner event anyway
Other club has a separate night and its usually oversubscribed although I've never been to that one (its a membership of convenience for me)

 

[Arthur Wedge]

It’s ok , mainly because it’s also used as the current Captains throw out

 

[Neilds]

No idea, never needed to go

 

[srixon 1]

Rammed every year. Ours includes the gents, ladies and juniors. Also any county honours or team wins are done the same evening. It probably helps that the club put on a ‘free’ buffet halfway through the proceedings. I say free, but I think the cost of it comes out of the competition entry fees.

 

[Skytot]

It’s ok , mainly because it’s also used as the current Captains throw out

What’s a Captain’s Throwout ? I’ve been playing over 40 years but never heard that expression

 

[Arthur Wedge]

What’s a Captain’s Throwout ? I’ve been playing over 40 years but never heard that expression

For us it’s where they get the old Captain and give him a celebratory thank you night and go through his year etc

 

[Bdill93]

We have a separate "presentation evening" at a different venue to the club itself.

Tickets purchased if you want to attend - same faces most years and not brilliantly attended.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

My club doesn’t just give out the trophies…but we also celebrate the successes that the club teams and members have had on the wider regional, national, UK, European and indeed the World stages. Alongside the AGM it’s a celebration evening.

 

[SteveW86]

We don’t have one. We do a shotgun start as our men’s comps, so the trophy gets presented on the day.

 

[Swango1980]

We have a Presentation Texas Scramble on a Sunday in November. All Prize Winners are automatically entered into the draw, and anyone else can add themselves.

Shotgun start. After the scramble, we have our presentation

 

[wjemather]

We used to have a dinner in November, but numbers dwindled until only the captain, about half the winners & their guests ever turned out.

Now we hold an informal presentation after the first trophy comp of the year in mid-March. This year, only one of the trophy winners from 2024 isn't playing, and all but one or two others will attend the presentation after. There has been the suggestion of making it a shotgun start to ensure more people hang around, but that would reduce the field for the comp.

The ladies and seniors have kept their separate evenings, which remain fairly well attended.

 

[KenL]

What’s a men’s prize giving night? Nothing like that at my place. Probably just a gathering of bandits.

 

[jim8flog]

We did away with a prize giving night many years ago.

We now have a presentation on a Sunday afternoon prior to giving out the prizes in a well supported shot gun start team competition.

Even then we get some winners not turning up to collect their trophies and still have a box full of them in the office not even collected from there.

One of the other things we did away with some years ago was runners up prizes.

Seniors and Ladies do theirs as part of the Christmas Lunch.

 

[Chip&Run]

Ours is the highlight of the year and always over subscribed. Its always on the Saturday Evening after the last Winter League fixture.

An evening of great food, wine, beers and laughter. We have a band and a guest speaker.