OVERVIEW:
Welcome to your volunteer challenge! The task is to build a mini-golf hole using a variety of canned food products that will then be donated to a local food bank. Your team will incorporate design ideas, building efforts, and mini-golf creativity in the process of constructing a Golf Hole for the company’s “Give Back” Challenge. Your group will make one hole for every team that is participating. Upon completion of the construction, we will have a putting tournament for each team to collect the best scores.

All food products will be donated to a local food bank following the event.

COURSE ITEMS:

• Food Products for the Sculpture
• PVC Pipe & Connectors
• Cardboard Tubing
• Duct Tape
• Scissors
• Poster Boards (number your hole, name it, and set par from 3-5)
• Foam Core for cutting and design
• Rubber Bands
• Indoor-outdoor turf (10 feet)
• Sticks, dowels, and more
• 200 items of food products will be donated per team to a food bank following the event.

INCLUSIONS:

• Coordination of the program with charity
• All supplies provided
• MC, staff, sound & music
• Rules packets, golf balls, etc.

AWARDS:
1st place with the lowest score will earn an award, and we will award the best-designed hole as well.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

• Welcome and overview of rules
• Teams design course (20 minutes)
• Teams build course (45 minutes)
• Tournament (30 minutes)
• Awards (10 minutes)
• Boxing of Golf Course Food into Food Bank Boxes (10 minutes)

CONSTRUCTION:
The goal is to create a tee box, fairway, and putting green as a team. Using supplies and food donation items, be creative and make a theme for the hole. Your hole should be able to be completed in 3 shots (Par 3) with a maximum score of 5.

• Incorporate risk and fun elements to allow for better scores if participants achieve the challenge.
• The design should be challenging and functional while being fun.
• Your team will be judged on creativity, use of resources, and playability of your golf hole.
• Name your golf hole and decorate a tee box sign with a logo and the hole number.
• Use the poster board provided and write 4-5 special “golf hole” rules for participants at your hole.
• You are assigned a putter for your hole and you can add to or modify it for more creativity.

GAME DAY:

• Each hole will have a specialty putter that will be used only at your hole.
• Max score of 5 for each participant.
• Participants will share putters at the hole.

SPECIALTY PUTTER POSSIBILITIES:

• Pool Cue
• Broom
• Hockey Stick
• Garden Hose
• Fun Noodle
• Baseball Bat
• Tennis Ball hanging from string
• Boat Oar