GolfMania - a unique fundraiser based on pro golf

An exciting sweepstakes based on professional golf!

The GolfMania Sweepstakes

Over $8,000 in prize money!
34 chances to win in each tournament!
Makes professional golf’s “majors” exciting even for the casual fan!

Do you enjoy watching golf, but feel it could use a bit more excitement? If so, GolfMania is for you! When you have a GolfMania game card, you can win $1,000s in prize money by just sitting back, watching the golf tournaments, and rooting for the golfers printed on your game card. The better (or worse) your golfers perform, the better chance you have to win one of the 34 prizes in each of the 4 major tournaments! This sweepstakes make the tournaments exciting for even the most casual fan!

GolfMania sweepstakes are exciting and engaging for participants because every game card holder has an equal chance of winning. In GolfMania, each game card holder is automatically entered into 4 separate contests, and there are 136 prizes awarded. The 4 separate contests correspond to golf’s 4 major championship events and each game card is assigned 5 random golfers for each event!

Prizes are awarded at the end of each tournament to the game cards whose 5 golfers have either the best or worst total combined score (see front of game card for prizes). In case of ties, 'total holes under par' is used to determine winners. The more holes under par (birdies, eagles, etc) the better. See below for complete prizes or view the official rules for more details.

Prizes

Throughout the GolfMania sweepstakes, participants check their game cards to see if they've won prizes. GolfMania sweepstakes game card holders have 34 chances to win a prize in each of the 4 contests, with a total of 136 total prizes awarded. There are 2,688 unique game cards, each of which has a minimum 1 in 20 chance to win a prize during the sweepstakes.

Best Score Prizes for each tournament
Game Card with the best 5 golfer combined total score	$400
Second best combined score	$200
Third best combined score	$150
Fourth best combined score	$100
Fifth best combined score	$50
Runner Up Prizes: next 26 best	$25
Total Best Prizes Paid per Contest	$1550

Worst Score Prizes for each tournament
Game Card with the worst 5 golfer combined total score	$250
Second worst combined score	$150
Third worst combined score	$50
Total Worst Prizes Paid per Contest	$450

Track your game card and see if you are a winner!

Once you have your game card, you can track your game card’s score at any time to see how well you are doing. Just enter your game card number on the CharityMania website.

CharityStudio music downloads

Why sell music downloads? Why not just use the sweepstakes game cards?
There is a legal difference between a sweepstakes and a raffle. In a raffle, people pay money for a raffle ticket that gives them a chance to win prizes. Only specific types of organizations can conduct a raffle and states strictly regulate how the raffles can operate. A sweepstakes is not a raffle. A sweepstakes is a promotion that provides extra incentive for people to buy a product or service that you are selling. The sweepstakes must have a ‘no purchase necessary’ method of entry. In a CharityMania fundraiser, the sweepstakes game cards are for promotion only and are not sold directly. Every time someone buys a CharityMania Ticket, they purchase over $5 to $30 worth of premium music downloads (depending on the price of the CharityMania ticket) from our CharityStudio. The sweepstakes game card is the promotion that provides a great extra incentive for a person to support your cause.

Our Sweepstakes Game Cards work much like the game pieces in the Monopoly sweepstakes at McDonald’s. You can not buy a Monopoly game piece directly. Instead, you purchase things like hamburgers and drinks and receive the game pieces for free. The Monopoly game pieces are a promotion.

No purchase necessary sweepstakes:
All CharityMania sweepstakes are “no purchase necessary”. If someone wants a free sweepstakes game card, they can come to your organization and fill out a request form (provided by CharityMania) to get a free Game Card. They mail the completed request form to CharityMania along with a self-addressed stamped envelope and then we will mail the person a game card. We do not mail them the access code that allows people to download the digital music (because they are not paying). This process is very standard for all companies that conduct sweepstakes.