Thanks for the comments Ross, it's helpful to see from the other side. I don't know how much Mizuno would be able to do in terms of subsidy as it would seem that fully sponsoring the events would be the only way to get top quality courses that are vaguely affordable, if they won't offer discounts (most will for events of the size mentioned) That said, from a purely selfish point of view, I would rather they stuck with the main forum days
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I don't know how Mizuno Group see sponsorship of this kind of thing. From my humble view it would seem that even if you could knock £150 per golfer off a green fee for, say 3 days, if would be a good promotional tool. 23k per event assuming 150 golfers would be small change from the group's money for the publicity but I guess there are many competing pots.
It all depends on whether Mizuno Group see this as worth pursuing fully or not.
I'd rather they spent 23k on the Northern Forum Day prize of Masters tickets and pre tournament round for 4, all inclusive stay at a 6 star hotel in Georgia for 3 weeks and a club fitting with Stacy Lewis, mind