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Let's see what everyone makes of this....
at The Open last week I was able to hit the longest drive of the day on one of the HSBC simulators, Guys there took my details and signs there say daily prizes! I'm thinking great!! Next day I get an email saying I've won 6 balls... not to seem ungrateful or anything but 6 balls for winning a daily event that thousands of people have had a go at seems a bit frugal bearing in mind the advertising Callaway have had from that. Is it just me???
 
Yep it is a bit of fun not disputing that and it's free, however when the que is 25 long all day with the advertising from that and the amount of Callaway Epic drivers that will be sold of the back of 1000s of guys demoing them will be a lot, so with that in mind you would think 6 balls was a bit tight.. not even a full dozen!
 
it might be a case of everyone hit the longest drive of the day so great marketing for Callaway, maybe 6 balls was a prize for everyone;), better than no balls
 
I have to agree with the OP, pretty poor prize to be honest. I guess you would expect at least a dozen. Is there only 1 daily winner? If so, over the 6 days the event is on, they would have given away 3 boxes of balls in total. That doesn't seem a lot considering how many people will have tried the event.

But on the other hand, the event is free.

It reminds me of the putting contest they had at the Irish open, was a 50 foot putt aimed at winning free prov1's. In reality you only won the prov1 which you putted with, so it wasn't even brand new. When I got there at midday on one of the days, only 1 person had won. But you could enter as many times as you liked, so they couldn't exactly give away boxes and boxes of them.
 
Don't see an issue really, they offer free daily prizes which you ended up with. Unless they stated what the prize was and then offered you an alternative then the prize as is. As golfers its not like balls aren't a welcome prize.
 
Kevsav said:
Yep it is a bit of fun not disputing that and it's free, however when the que is 25 long all day with the advertising from that and the amount of Callaway Epic drivers that will be sold of the back of 1000s of guys demoing them will be a lot, so with that in mind you would think 6 balls was a bit tight.. not even a full dozen!
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Would you have still done it if you knew what the prize was beforehand? I saw the queue and couldn't be bothered waiting as I had already missed enough action queuing for food.
 
Adam and I did this, 6 balls for doing something you wanted to do, was provided for free and fun, I would be grateful, the prize is a bonus.

I would be more than happy with just hitting the longest drive of the day for brownie points.:D (which I didn't)

Personally enjoyed the chipping in the open umbrella more, managed 3 and one in the side door, for 4 out of 5.

Thought it was great all the free stuff and so please we went on a practise day.
 
Green Bay Hacker said:
Would you have still done it if you knew what the prize was beforehand? I saw the queue and couldn't be bothered waiting as I had already missed enough action queuing for food.
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Took about 45 mins in total to que and have a go so in all honestly I had 3 goes in total so let's say 2 hours in total. If I knew it was for 6 balls then no I would not of wasted my time.
also I think my point has been misunderstood by a few, the point is how the prize relates to the competition being held, on this occasion it was a long drive comp at the biggest golf event in the country with thousands of entries sponsored by Callaway, yes I will happily except 6 balls but in an event this big with this much publicity and the amount of sales of the back of this you may expect something more than 6 balls which manufacturers costs are a few quid! One guys wages for 1 day is probably more than the prizes for a full week.
 
Did you not think to ask what the prize was on your 2nd or 3rd go?
 
Kevsav said:
Took about 45 mins in total to que and have a go so in all honestly I had 3 goes in total so let's say 2 hours in total. If I knew it was for 6 balls then no I would not of wasted my time.
also I think my point has been misunderstood by a few, the point is how the prize relates to the competition being held, on this occasion it was a long drive comp at the biggest golf event in the country with thousands of entries sponsored by Callaway, yes I will happily except 6 balls but in an event this big with this much publicity and the amount of sales of the back of this you may expect something more than 6 balls which manufacturers costs are a few quid! One guys wages for 1 day is probably more than the prizes for a full week.
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I don't think the point has been missed, as you said the amount of sales they may get off the back of this is really why they did it. So the fact that you did it 3 times, I'm sure loads of other did too. So they have got what they wanted the publicity of the epic driver and the callaway brand. So to them they have marketed well at, as you say the biggest golf event in the country. People would do it without the chance to win a driver, which clearly you did as you assumed it would be a driver you won, but they only offered a prize which considering it was free is still a good prize.

Plus it could be a case that more than one person got the same distance so they split up the prizes and that's why you only received 6 balls instead of 12 or whatever.
 
Garush34 said:
I don't think the point has been missed, as you said the amount of sales they may get off the back of this is really why they did it. So the fact that you did it 3 times, I'm sure loads of other did too. So they have got what they wanted the publicity of the epic driver and the callaway brand. So to them they have marketed well at, as you say the biggest golf event in the country. People would do it without the chance to win a driver, which clearly you did as you assumed it would be a driver you won, but they only offered a prize which considering it was free is still a good prize.

Plus it could be a case that more than one person got the same distance so they split up the prizes and that's why you only received 6 balls instead of 12 or whatever.
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No it was not split it was won out right, never said anywhere what the prizes were just daily prizes so nothing about winning an epic driver just to promote the driver. Every person I have spoke to face to face about this has been gob smacked at the low prize for such a venue, maybe others must have low expectations.
 
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