Corporate Speakers - Golf Great Doug Sanders

Golf great Doug Sanders is a popular and highly entertaining motivational speaker and he is available to appear at your next special event.

Doug Sanders Golf Outings! - In addition to hearing him speak, treat your clients to a golf outing with Doug Sanders! A Doug Sanders Golf Outing is a great way to motivate, reward, or entertain your top executives and customers. No one has organized more celebrity tournaments than Doug. An outing with Doug will be a memorable experience for everyone who attends.

Following breakfast, Sanders conducts a twenty minute golf clinic. Then, on one par-three hole, Doug will hit a shot with each group, who can choose to use his ball if desired.

Next, Doug will pose for a photograph with each group. Finally, the day ends with your choice of heavy hors d'oeuvres or dinner. After the awards ceremony, Doug will speak for 15 minutes about his experiences as a PGA golf pro, highlighting his speech with many amusing stories..

About Doug:

Doug joined the tour in 1957 and has won 20 PGA Pro Tournaments. There have been only 6 golfers in the world who turned pro since 1957, who have won more than 20 PGA Tour Championships on the regular tour. He's had winnings of over $1 million. Doug counts himself fortunate for turning pro at a time when television gave such excellent coverage to the tournaments and the purses made it worthwhile to play.

Doug Sanders PGA Tour wins:

1956 (1) Canadian Open (as an amateur)
1958 (1) Western Open
1959 (1) Coral Gables Open Invitational
1961 (5) Greater New Orleans Open Invitational, Colonial National Invitation, Hot Springs Open Invitational, Eastern Open Invitational, Cajun Classic Open Invitational
1962 (3) Pensacola Open Invitational, St. Paul Open Invitational, Oklahoma City Open Invitational
1963 (1) Greater Greensboro Open
1965 (2) Pensacola Open Invitational, Doral Open Invitational
1966 (3) Bob Hope Desert Classic, Jacksonville Open, Greater Greensboro Open
1967 (1) Doral Open Invitational
1970 (1) Bahama Islands Open
1972 (1) Kemper Open

Sanders was one of the first to promote the Seniors Tour with his own Celebrity Classic and joined the Seniors Tour in 1983. Later that year he won the World Seniors Invitational.

He has always been known as a stylish, flamboyant dresser on the golf course, thus earning his name "Peacock of the Fairways". ESQUIRE named him as one of America's " Ten best dressed Jocks" in 1973.

It is said that the two most frequently asked questions on the Senior PGA Tour were "What did Arnold Palmer shoot?" and "What is Doug Sander's wearing?"

For over twenty years, Doug has sponsored the Doug Sanders International Junior Golf Championship. The Championship brings together young players from six continents for an annual competition in Aberdeen, Scotland. Sanders contributions have benefited a number of organizations including: Texas Special Olympics, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Sunshine Kids, Depelchin Children's Home, Ronald McDonald House, Camp Periwinkle, Easter Seals and an amazing $100,000 contribution to the Betty Ford Center, as well as $176,000 to the UMCF.

In addition to hearing Doug Sanders speak, there's no better way to entertain your clients than on the golf course. A day with Doug Sanders will be a memorable experience for you, your customers, valued employees, or prominent dignitaries.