Elite Tour™ partnerships provide your company with a proven platform for increasing revenue and public recognition. Partnership would provide the following key benefits:
● Unparalleled Access to Golf’s Rising Stars developed and nurtured in a unique participatory, academy style tour environment,
● Inside the Ropes Experience with the best business building opportunity in sports,
● The Inaugural Opportunity to sponsor an industry first tour program designed specifically for generating the world’s next major tour players.
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OVERVIEW
● Unparalleled Access to Golf’s Rising Stars developed and nurtured in a unique
participatory, academy style tour environment,
● Inside the Ropes Experience with the best business building opportunity in
sports,
● The Inaugural Opportunity to sponsor an industry first tour program designed
specifically for generating the world’s next major tour players.
Elite Tour™ partnerships provide your company with a proven platform for increasing
revenue and public recognition. Partnership would provide the following key benefits:
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SPONSORSATISFACTION
Lynne Anderson
CEO, Australian Paralympic Committee
Leading Australian Sports Executive
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The Late Johan Cruyff
Founder, Johan Cruyff Institute
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GROWTHPOTENTIAL
● Three Tier Player Progression model designed to encourage player
development and reward those who excel at each level of the tour’s training
across all aspects of the tour’s academy style environment. Elite Tour™ will
implement tournaments for each tier with two groups for each Gold, Silver,
Bronze level. This expansion predicts player enrollments to increase to 900
professionals and respectively, the tour’s revenue to US $36,000,000.
● Four Seasonal Series Model is designed to cater to professional player
enrollment throughout the year. With Elite Tour™ residing within Arizona, the
expansion will enable more players to participate across all three tiers at varying
intervals. This will enable improved access to courses, expand player interest,
increase year-round publicity, and encourage further local economic growth.
Elite Tour™ projects future growth of the tour to include two key expansions. Each will be
adjusted according to the popularity of the public, sports networks, and in the best interest
of the tour, players, and our partners. These models are:
These expansions models will benefit Elite Tour™, our Partners and Sponsors, and the Players
by increasing the revenue available to assist players as they progress to the major tours.
Partner investments contribute to the advancement of those players who progress enabling
increased publicity for all parties.
Aligning all party’s brands benefits each exponentially by the collaborative and co-branded
marketing initiatives, and network virility which has seen the golf industry continue to rank
as the number one sponsored and endorsed sport in the world.
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TOURTITLEINVESTMENT
● Naming rights for the Elite Tour™ - Eg. Elite Tour™.
● Includes
○ Naming rights of the points accrual system that players earn from each
event leading up to the Tour Championship (eg. The Race to the FEDEX Cup)
- players with the top 60 points compete in the Elite Tour™ Championship.
The winner with the most points at the end of the season wins the
;
○ Branded signage at each event (venue entrance, venue signage, practice
areas, tee boxes, fairways, greens);
○ Logo branding on caddy bibs, tour apparel, and tour promotional items;
○ Marketing, social media, and publicity visibility for each Elite Tour™
tournament and event;
○ Plus the right to sponsor Elite Tour™ players for a contractual period as
agreed between the Elite Tour™, the Partner, and the Player.
VALUED AT US $1,000,000
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TOURNAMENTINVESTMENT
● Eight (8) Season Tournaments - Naming rights per individual event.
● Naming rights for the Elite Tour™ tournament - Eg. Classic.
● Includes:
○ Naming rights of the tournament trophy;
○ Branded signage at each event (venue entrance, venue signage, practice
areas, tee boxes, fairways, greens);
○ Logo branding on caddy bibs, hole flags (pins);
○ Marketing, social media, and publicity visibility for the Elite Tour™
tournament and the ‘awards’ event.
VALUED AT US $200,000
● Eight (8) Season Pro-Am events available (Must be sponsored with a
tournament).
○ 18 groups each with a Elite Tour™ Pro Player.
○ Pro-Am function and auction for designated Charities.
● Naming rights for Pro-Am - Eg. Pro-Am.
● Includes as per above.
VALUED AT US $20,000
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CHAMPIONSHIPINVESTMENT
● Naming rights for the Elite Tour™ tournament - Eg. Elite Tour™
Championship.
● Includes:
○ Naming rights of the Championship trophy;
○ Branding included on the Elite Tour™ Championship logo;
○ Branded signage at each event (venue entrance, venue signage, practice
areas, tee boxes, fairways, greens);
○ Logo branding on caddy bibs, hole flags (pins);
○ Logo branding on all volunteer’s attire;
○ Marketing, social media, and publicity visibility for the Elite Tour™
tournament and the ‘awards’ event;
○ Plus the right to sponsor Elite Tour™ players for a contractual period as
agreed between the Elite Tour™, the Partner, and the Player.
VALUED AT US $500,000
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HAVEITALLINVESTMENT
● Naming rights for the entire Elite Tour™ - Eg. Elite Tour™
Cup/Championship.
● Includes:
○ Naming rights of the Elite Tour™ plus the Points accrual system and Cup;
○ Naming rights of each regular tournament;
○ Naming rights of each Pro-Am;
○ Naming rights of the Championship;
○ Branding included on the Elite Tour™ Championship logo;
○ Branded signage at each event (venue entrance, venue signage, practice
areas, tee boxes, fairways, greens);
○ Logo branding on caddy bibs, hole flags (pins);
○ Logo branding on all volunteer’s attire;
○ Marketing, social media, and publicity visibility for the Elite Tour™
tournament and the ‘awards’ event;
○ Plus the right to sponsor the top 10 Elite Tour™ players for contractual
periods up to 5 years.
VALUED AT US $2,000,000
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HAVEITALLINVESTMENT
● Tournament coverage live streaming via social media and networks;
● Opportunity to have a Corporate tent with food and service for 50 people
on the last day of each event;
● One promotional space at the venue (located with other promotional tents,
vans, etc.);
● Sponsor will present winner’s check;
● Logo recognition on “Quiet” panels;
● Logo recognition on all caddie bibs;
● Blog and Press Release advertorial mention per event;
● Sidebar advertisement on website daily pairing sheet;
● Listing on major sponsor board;
● Header on all scoreboards during event (including website and on course);
● Social media tagging for each promotional Partnership represented event;
● Collaborative marketing utilizing cooperative email and social network
initiatives, and access to consumer reach, advocacy, and publicity.