HackWilson1930:
A thought ran through my mind concerning balls that promote things like ALS awareness. Does WGT donate a portion of the income from the sale of these balls to the organization being promoted. If they don't, they should and as players here we should be told this when we purchase. Think of the good will that could be generated! Come on WGT marketing department, get with it.
My guess is they don't.
Here's what I think. For regular sponsors, they pay certain fee to wgt to sponsor an event. But for a non-profit like UNICEF or ALS, wgt receive no payment, but instead they write the sponsor fee off as donation to get some tax benefit.
A couple random thoughts:
Two non-profits in a row. Wgt might have trouble finding paid sponsors. In addition, they cancelled the live event due to lack of participation. My take is they planned to use (overpriced) registration fee to cover the cost of the event, but it didn't pan out. I sense the virtual tour is in trouble.
Now with all these sponsor balls, wgt needs to allow players to group all balls with identical performance together, so when one runs out it can be replaced by another. But of course this will be at the bottom of their to-do list if it's on the list at all.