To be able to further develope this event, we made a survey among the participants. The survey was conducted between 29 September and 10 October.
We would like to thank all those who participated in this survey. Your feedback, and especially
all the comments we received are very useful guidelines for planning and implementing next years event!
"Organization of the event was very professional. The spirit among the contestants was very good and I had a great day."
Statement from a Swedish participant
"I've played in this tournament 5 years out of the 6 and it never disappoints."
Statement from an American participant.
"Want to take this opportunity to thank everyone helped organize this great event. Impressed with all the attentions paid to all the details."
Statement from a Japanese participant
WINNERS OF THE DRAWING
Among those who participate in this survey we drew for winners for:
- One Voucher for Windsor Park Golf and Country Club Weekday Overnight Stay at Windsor Park.
Voucher good for two people
- to include 18 hole green fee for two days, two lunches, one breakfast and executive chef dinner -
Winner: -
Daniel Ritlewski (EU)
- Two Vouchers for one round of weekday golf at Gotemba G.C. or Belle View Nagao G.C.
Each voucher is good for 2 people.
Winners: - Masayoshi Fujii (NA)
- Marcus Kosins (NA)
SURVEY RESPONSES
The survey was announced to 122 participants (we did not have email addresses to some of the guests and the organizers were excluded form the total of 131 players that participated in the event).
We received 96 valid responses after removing multiple and incomplete entries.
Thus the response rate is 77.9%, which can be considered very good and gives a high statistical significance to the results. 44 of the respondets represented Team Europe, 43 Team North America.
SURVEY RESULTS
The numbers and graphs below speak for themselves. To see the comments from respondents, scroll down or click here.
1. General opinion about the event?
Information
Arrangements
2. The Course
Interesting/Challenging course
Course condition
3. Food & Beverage Service
On the course
At the party
5. Pace of play
6. Main reason why I participated
7. Cost of participation
8. Would you like to play next years event again at Atsugi Kokusai C.C.
9. Do you think that adding the Charity component to the tournament was a good idea?
10. What did you think of the silent auction's choices?
9. What do you think of the gift/price range of the silent auction items?
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COMMENTS FROM RESPONDENTS
58 respondents also gave some comments. Below are almost all of them, only with minor editing.
General Comments
- Is it possible to see the total result list on the web?
Comment: Now available on the results page (under list of individual net).
I played in the second event and loved it. The third and fourth event were not as fun. Too much whining and complaining about things. I missed last year. This year was great again. Thanks.
Another great year for the D&C Cup. Do NOT change the speaker!
Fantastic event as always. Well organised before, during and afterwards. Always a pleasure to take part. Many thanks to the Task Force & sponsors. p.s. Let Clas know that I understood everything he said no problems !!!
The pace was much better this year than in other years. I did not hear complaints about the slowness of the play. The reception was well organized and moved rapidly. I am looking forward to next year
Great appreciation to the taskforce members, including Aska and Maruyama-san. Thank you very much.
Much better this year than last. Better pace of play, was kept informal and relaxed. Would like to see the event move venues to a top Kanto course that we otherwise couldn't play. Happy to pay more for the privilege. We in effect have the making of a golf club given the number of familiar faces each year... could we do one a quarter with the Daimler the end of year celebration. Am not expecting the task force to do all this! Thanks for your efforts again this year.
I really enjoyed the whole day. It was great having the roundtrip bus. Looking forward to next year's event.
Overall a very good event. The course was pretty short and not that challenging, but the caddy was good. Overall set up - food and venue is atypical in Japanese Golf. Could be higher quality and different. Charity component into tht golf game would be interesting and good for the charity portion. Lots of foreigners, but perhaps is should be a presidents cup like event added where it is Japan vs. the world type event. This would get more of the Japanese business involved as we do live and work in Japan.
It is a great event well organized, well done to the team look forward to be there next year..
It's hard to make it a better event!!! Good work and organized!
Execllent event! Very well organized! Sorry, but towards the end, whether NA or EU won, was lost little bit after the break. Congratulation to the NA as winners! Me? I was a winner too, as first time under 100 gross!! Thanks for the great day!!
A big hand for the committee about great event
As always had a great time at the event. I am already looking forward to next year.
Excellent event ! I'll try to be there again next year.
Generally, good course and good mood. Please continue next year too.
Good event, I enjoyed a lot, thank you.
Good event, one of the better golf events I have been to
Good job everyone! Smooth comp yet again! Don't let me win my own prize, should it happen!! BG
Great event all around. See you next year.
I enjyoed playing golf very much at Daimler-Chrysler cup. It was well organized and satisfactory.
Should make a video digest of the event next year - also having the photographer on the course last year was fun. Where did they go this year?
Thank you everything. I really enjoyed.
Thank you for your kind hospitality. I really enjoyed the atmosphere as well as playing golf.
Thank you to the organizers. Fully realize it is a big job, many many issues and say big THANK YOU!
Thank you very much for organising such an excellent golf event. I enjoyed a lot.
Thank you for the arrangement, I have enjoyed the whole day.
Very well organized this year. Really enjoyed it and look forward to next year.
Comments about the club, course and play
- The choice of tee box placement on #1 handicap hole dogleg left was too tight. Too close to the trees and one penalty for hitting it left. For tournament format, the tee boxes need to be a bit more generous for everyone. Otherwise, the course was in good shape. Short, but tricky.
- A couple of areas for improvement are 1. Pace of play. Took me 3 hours for front nine which is too long. Back nine was 2.5 hours which is acceptable. Need thorough undestanding by everyone of the double-par-plus-one ruling. 2. Can we play West course? West course is more fun for everyone and speed up the pace of play because West course is less trickier and fairways are much less tighter.
- I would welcome the opportunity to play at a different course next year.
- Good, booklet with course info/hole map, support from caddies Less good, the course with several blind holes, difficult for first time players and slowing down play.
- As overall, the event was good and I could enjoy the event. The course itself was good but the location was not convenient. There was hevy traffic Jam around there althoguh it mught be the peak rush hour. It was not far but took time due to te traffic.
- Wondered whether the team event should be best 80% gross scores, rater than best 80% net. Is there any reason why the handicap is needed for the team event, other than precedent?
- As for the golf, it would be nice to play on a different cours for a change.
- Great event! I would pick another course if I had an idea of one in the same general area, but there aren't that many choices!
- It is too slow but I don't know how to fix it without greatly reducing the number of players
- Slow at times but had fun while waiting also!
- Short concidering the number of players
Comments about food and drinks
- Food on the course is terrible. Not much selection for non-meat eaters.
- I think the food on the course could be improved a lot. The chicken burgers could be swapped out with hamburgers and the cold Japanese type hot dogs could be swapped out with real American franks.
- We started on Hole 13 and were very much looking forward to some food but when we reached Hole 15 there was nothing. Other groups must have suffered the same fate. With no break for lunch we had to wait until the next food hole came around to put some grub in. That's pretty shoddy organisation given most of us were up at around 5:00a.m. and few will have had the time for breakfast at home. Otherwise; a brilliant success as always and full credit to the Task Force. You are wonderful.
- Real burgers and dogs on the course would be great. Once again the fare on the course was disspointing. We confirmed that the burgers on the course were chicken and the "hotdogs" were more suitable to a sausage moriawase at an izakaya. The buffet that followed was marginally better.
- As usual overall arrangments were excellent. This year the Food & beverage service had dropped in standard. Not the most important issue as such, but it would have been nice to be able to get coffee during the round as an option to all the beer:-)
Comments about party, prizes and charity component
- Clas' portion simply took too long at 45 minutes. A different person (perhaps a professional) should be able to cover all that in 15-20 minutes.
Too many charities. You should focus on one, not three. It was a mistake to have the silent auction afterwards. Many people left. Every year the same great golfers win the same prizes. Perhaps you could have a rule that someone can't win two years in a row. I know that is a bit unfair to someone who plays well but unless you are an awesome golfer there's no hope except for the lottery - and even for that it seems like the same people win every year!
- I didn't think it was right for longest drive and closest to the pin winners to receive additional prizes. They already won their prizes...they got to drive nice cars for the weekend. I understand that this was probably an oversight but it was unfair to the rest of us. Only 1 blemish...not too bad.
- I felt that party took rather longer hours and could be shorter eventhough prizing took long time but still there was too long idle times.
- More golf related prizes would be appreciated; not only sponsored named golf items. Also number of prizes can increase so that more participants will enjoy the party. such as number 26th (prize for the date), every 20th or 50th,,, In any case, I really appreciated for the occasion and enjoyed the date; because not only of getting the award, also of the atmosphere and the event itself.
- Thanks again for a great Tournament. Only one issue, it took a bit to long time to Announce the Winning Team. People already had started to leave, next time Announce it a bit earlier! Understand and support the Charity portion, not easy to get people to sign up for the Silent Auction, now it felt a bit long extra wait due to waiting to close the Silent Auction before the Winning Team was announced. Good to continue Playing same Course, people can remember earlier Years. Thanks again to the Organisers!!
- I appreciate the effort of the taskforce to incorporate a charity element into the event. It was a lot of work on the part of both charities so ultimately I wonder if it was really worth the effort. perhaps trying to do both is too much. With the "valuable" limited time available, perhaps we should be doing more to create more interaction amongst all of the participants, which is not happening now or in the past? Please keep me in the loop on the results.
- Party and Price Awarding Ceremony The organsisation should be re-considered. After the lucky-draw part several players left while the team result had not been announced.
- I like the event very much. That is why I participate. However, the prize giving ceremony was poorly organized and communicated.Improvements are easily possible. Also it is a shame to announce the result of the competition after prizes and after the charity event, at a time when half the people had left already. This is a competition and the result itself is, in my opinion, the most important "News" of the day. A more appropriate slot for the results announcement should be found by the organizers. My comments are a little critical but, it is still a great event.
- For the number of players , the prizes were rather disappointing.
- First of all many thanks to the organizing committee. I really appreciate the hard work and dedication that went into the organization of such an event. Only two concerns from my side 1. the game was way too slow - almost 6 hours!!! 2. the format for the prize ceremony has to change...very long and sorry to say also very boring.
- Again, most people around me and myself thought the reception speeches and prize ceremony were much too long; it spoils such a nice impression of the whole event...
- Please note, that the event after the golf as introduction of sponsors, winners etc. is too long. Why not calling all the sponsors to the front in introduce the shortly. That's all, it was a great day and many thanks to you.
- Price ceremony & party takes to long time! Otherwise an excellent and high quality arrangement by organizers and sponsors!
- Thanks again for a great Tournament. Only one issue, it took a bit to long time to Announce the Winning Team. People already had started to leave, next time Announce it a bit earlier! Understand and support the Charity portion, not easy to get people to sign up for the Silent Auction, now it felt a bit long extra wait due to waiting to close the Silent Auction before the Winning Team was announced. Good to continue Playing same Course, people can remember earlier Years. Thanks again to the Organisers!!
- Took too long to get the results, many had left before then, improvement on this would be a good idea
- The charity was a good thing, but it became a bit long time to wait for the announcement of the Winning Team due to the charity event. Somehow the exitement seemed to have faded by then and many had already left.
- Even with well organised preparations, it seems in general that the event status is going down, and the after party feeling is too long and troublesome - also, the fun part is missing on the "after-golf" session.
- Thank you for every volunteer for this event. The party was too long. Better to combine with schedule of club bus.
Comments about an alternative course
- Any chance to play a well-known member course that would otherwise be hard to get on.
- But West Course would be nice.
- Chiba ( access through Aqualine)
- Eagle Point
- Haruna no Mori
- I think the course could be more challenging. If at Atusgi, play from the back tees?
- Izu Ohito CC
- Narusawa G.C
- One of top Kanto courses that otherwise can't play
- Windsor Park
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