Golf Tournament Photography Coverage of Regional Challenge Featuring NCAA Student Athletes in Palos Verdes, CA

Part of the Ohio State University Team spelling out O-H-I-O

Each year Palos Verdes Golf Club shares its beautiful course with student athletes from the NCAA  for the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge and in turn these athletes give the club’s members a thrill by playing with them in a tournament as they familiarize themselves with the course.
For the last couple of years Caught in the Moment has been honored to do the photography for this golf tournament and making it a memorable event for all.  As we do with most of the golf tournaments we cover, we provide each player a print of his or her team; (normally foursomes, but for this tournament they’re actually fivesomes), but in this tournament we tweak it a little.  We recognize that different members of the team have different appreciation for the images we capture; so for the club’s members we provide a print of the entire team, and for the collegiate athletes we provide images of just themselves and their friends.  Taking it one step further, we consider that presentation matters differently to different audiences, so we also post the teams’ images on facebook for them to tag themselves and share them.
This take on the member-guest golf tournament takes place over the weekend to allow the club’s members to participate and the student athletes then play the course Monday through Wednesday in the PGA and NCAA sanctioned tournament.  Our work in creating imagery for the organizers and the golf club takes place over two days; one day over the weekend doing the photography for the groups, and then again on Wednesday during the awards ceremony taking the official portrait of the winning teams.  This year on that Wednesday, it was a real pleasure to see the club’s members carrying the prints we had given them over the weekend so they could get them autographed by the student athletes.  A not so subtle reminder that what we provide is much more than a service, but memories that are treasured.