Prizes for a society day, costed from the actual price list.

Start with the table, not the products. Most societies decide what to buy before deciding how many prizes they need, then either overspend on the winner and leave nothing for the side competitions, or spread the budget so thin that every prize feels like a raffle. Work out the shape of the table first and the buying takes ten minutes.

How many prizes does a golf society day need?

For a typical society day of 20 to 30 players, six prizes covers it without dragging the presentation out: first, second and third on the day, nearest the pin, longest drive, and a booby prize for the card nobody wants to read out. Larger fields add a team prize and a guest prize. Beyond about eight, the presentation stops being a moment and starts being an assembly, and the prizes themselves get cheaper to stretch the pot.

What a full prize table actually costs

Here is our own price list, so you can cost a six-prize table line by line rather than trusting a range. A poster is £14.99 at A4, a mug £16.99, a pack of ten cards £19.99, a bottle £28.99, and a framed print £69.00 at A3 and £102.99 at A2. Three ways to spend it:

• Modest (society roll-up, subs-funded): an A4 poster for the winner, a mug each for second and third, a pack of ten cards for each of the three side competitions.
• Standard (annual society day): an A3 framed print for the winner, a bottle each for nearest the pin and longest drive, a mug each for second, third and the booby. Moving the winner from an A4 poster at £14.99 to that A3 frame at £69.00 changes the feel of the presentation more than any other single swap on the table.
• Captain's day or a trip: an A2 framed print for the winner and A3 framed for second and third, bottles for the two side competitions. £300 upwards, and the top three get something that goes on a wall rather than in a cupboard.

Those are our prices, not estimates from elsewhere, and they include UK delivery. Nothing here needs a minimum order.

Bigger fields: golf day prizes, tournaments and season-long competitions

A society roll-up and an annual golf day are different problems. Once the field passes about 35 players the table needs a team prize and usually a guest prize, and the arithmetic changes. Using the same figures, a ten-prize table for a 40-player golf day runs to roughly £300: A3 framed prints for the top three at £69.00 each, bottles at £28.99 for nearest the pin and longest drive, mugs at £16.99 for a four-player team prize, and one more mug for the booby. That is a whole golf day prize table for the price of one decent driver.

A season-long order of merit is cheaper again, because it spreads. Eight roll-ups with a mug for each winner is £135.92, and an overall champion's A3 framed print at £69.00 plus a runner-up poster at £14.99 keeps the full season under £220. Set that against a single engraved trophy and it covers the whole calendar rather than one afternoon. Societies that run a competition across the year tend to find the per-event prize matters more than the final one, because it is the thing that gets people to turn up in February.

Nearest the pin, longest drive and the booby prize

The side competitions are where prize tables usually go wrong, because they get treated as afterthoughts. They are the prizes most likely to be won by someone who did not otherwise have a good day, which is exactly why they should be worth having. The Putting Line suits nearest the pin, being a green and its contours read from above. The Bunker Blast, a greenside splash caught mid-strike, has the right energy for longest drive. For the booby prize, The Halfway Hut is tea, a bacon roll and a glove on weathered timber, which is a kinder joke than a wooden spoon and still gets a laugh.

What we do not do: no engraving, trophies or society logos

Worth saying plainly, because most of this category sells the opposite. We do not engrave, we do not print society logos onto anything, and we do not do branded balls, tees or embroidered kit. Every piece carries its own artwork and that is the whole offer. If your day needs the society crest on a trophy, a trophy engraver will serve you better than we will, and we would rather tell you now than take the order.

Made to order in the UK for your society event

Everything is printed to order in the UK, delivery included. Every prize print is on the same 250gsm uncoated archival stock. Posters travel rolled in a tube; framed and canvas pieces arrive ready to hang. Because each piece is made when you order it, allow a few working days' production on top of delivery, and order a couple of weeks before the day if the table matters. If your date is tight, write before you order, and you will get a straight answer on whether the day is reachable.

Where this sits

A society day is the group version of their course. If one person is being bought for rather than a whole field, personalised golf gifts is the page, and the golfer who has everything covers the captain nobody can shop for.