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RESULTS FROM THE PARTICIPANTS SURVEY "Thank you for a most excellent day. Great organization, smoothly-run and a lot of fun." Winners of the drawing The 5 winners for two rounds of golf with 3 friends at Tama Hills G.C. are: Oshu Go Robert Grondine A. John Hamaguchi Michel Jutras Mark Sharman 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! 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 133). We received 62 valid responses after removing multiple and incomplete entries. Thus the response rate is 51 % 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? The Event Idea Arrangements 2.  The Course Course condition Access 3.  Play format Double Peoria Shotgun start 4.  Food & Beverage Service Variety/volume Quality 5.  Main reason why I participated 6.  Cost of participation 7.  Japanese team 8.  Participate next time COMMENTS FROM RESPONDENTS 52 respondents also gave some comments. Many of them (almost all...) included thanks to the organizers and compliments about the arrangements, such as: The event, the organization, the whole was very professional. You have all done a super job. Overall, an excellent event & very well organized - impressive considering the magnitude. I am extremely impressed with the organization of this event. A memorable impeccably organized event. Even thinking hard I don't know what to improve. Very good event, the web page and all printed material was excellent! Very professional. Excellent build up through the website. I think this was a very well prepared and organized event.      The website and information on the day were excellent.      Daimler Chrysler and other sponsors can be proud to have their name associated with it. I enjoy the whole day and was impressed by the organizing skills of the people in charge.      This should be a model for other similar events. The best golf-event I have ever attended. Comments about the course and play Course condition was fine, but the course itself was not so interesting - too many short par 4s. The only problem were the traffic jam in Atsugi around 8.00 am Took time to play 18 holes (more-than 6 hours). Consider to use 27 holes. The only negative comment I have is that the pace of play was a little too slow for my liking. The only fixes for this would be to decrease the number of players or to allow both courses at the club to be used. Only criticism would be that 6 1/4 hours is TOO long for a round of golf. Possible solutions:- (1) Allowing members of the opposite team to "give" short puts - i.e less than putter grip - would speed up play. (2) Atmosphere during the actual round of Golf might be improved by having a "Match Play" format. This would also speed up play. Handicaps would then be an issue but most players know their average handicap ... If there were as system better than Double Peoria that would be preferable, but absent a perfect fix I suppose that this system is a "necessary evil." Next time the separation in to Flight A and Flight B is highly desirable to allow players of all caliber to play comfortably and enjoyably. I wonder if the tournament would work better with 'self-declared' handicaps. There is the risk of false handicaps being used but the peoria system has a feeling of a lottery. Also, if someone declare their handicap to be, say, 20 and they shoot 75, they will be exposed for all to see. And the tournament organiser can excercise discretion in such a case In case we could find out somewhat reliable system to check each players hcp, Stableford system would be preferable instead of this Japanese lottery. Could it be considered that max. pts is (for example) 42 and if more, to be deleted/disqualified from the total/individual com- petition due to wrong hcp. Comments about food and drinks Lunch choices were not as good as the beverages, I like the "on the go" idea, but a more robust choice of sandwiches would be preferred. The after party was a bit weak on food, not enough variety and not enough volume.. Excellent in quality and quantity during the play. The food at the party however was surprisingly bad. The one major drawback was the food on the course. If we do not do the sit-down lunch, having better sandwiches or even hotdogs would be helpful. The food volume was a little bit too light at the party, but the sandwches and Japanese delicacies on the course to allow through play was absolutely perfect. Drinks around all the holes was also a wonderful arrangement. The location of the snack stand was perfect, enabling us to visit multiple times & the idea of having beverages at various holes was also welcomed with thirsty eagerness. I thought the beer selection was below average, quite surprised to see the dregs of American beer as the only choices. And the food at the award ceremony was also substandard & seemed a bit out of place in relation to the level of class up to that point. Possibly could have had a better selection of food afterwards at the presentation, or allow those to order off of a menu. Comments about prizes and prize ceremony Prize ceremony format should be changed so that as many partipants as possible (win) receive something. Now some people won 2-3 different prizes. Certainly generous to have had so many door prizes, and a great idea to have enough that people can win something without playing well. I liked the idea that not only the good golfers, but EVERYBODY had a chance to get a prize ! Good idea to draw prices for everyone - fun. I enjoyed outing very much and it was surprising how much of items we all received from the sponsors The only one thing I missed in such an excellent event was the lack of any charity feature. For me golf and charity go pretty much hand in hand, and one could easily have reduced the amount of prices to a halfcand they still would have been lavish. Comments on a Japanese team With regard to the idea of a Japanese team, it would depend on what is intended, ie 3 teams in total, and would that then mean that Japanese players would not play for either the European or North American team and that the player makeup would be based on Nationality, not just membership in a Country Chamber. I don't think the idea of the Tokyo Chamber joining, unless they are the international group willing to interact with Foreigners. I think we should first get better participation with Japanese employees of foreign companies via the ACCJ and the EBC. I am in favor of including the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce as it will expand my network, but can we accommodate so many players? © 2003 ACCJ & EBC & FCCJ. All rights Reserved