Junior golf camp programs run all summer on a rolling weekly schedule. Each week brings 20-40 new junior golfers, each parent wants a take-home piece, and every camp tee is dated and themed to that specific week. Wholesale apparel cannot meet the cadence. Print-on-demand drops handle weekly camps without inventory headaches. Here is the playbook.
Camps run on 5-day cycles, Monday through Friday. Mondays are intake and registration. Thursdays are family scramble and apparel distribution. Fridays are graduation and parent pickup. Each week has its own roster, its own theme, and its own dated apparel piece.
Wholesale apparel cannot turn that fast. A six-week lead time for a screen-printed camp tee means the first three camp weeks run on placeholder shirts, and the last three weeks of camp tees show up in October. Print-on-demand fixes the cadence: order Monday, ship Wednesday, parents pick up Friday.
For a 25-camper week running camp tees included in the fee (cost basis $12 per tee to the club), the apparel breaks even on the included piece. The margin comes from the add-ons:
Total: ~$440 weekly camp apparel margin on a 25-camper week, on top of the included camp tees. Across an eight-week summer camp program, that is $3,500+ in pure apparel margin with zero inventory.
The camp tee for the upcoming week is ordered the prior Friday. Parents register over the weekend, the platform fulfills the camp tees and ships direct to the club for distribution Monday at intake. The hats and parent polos are available through the online pro shop with a pickup-at-club option for the Friday parent pickup window.
The platform supports a single-product print run that scales from 12 pieces (small camp week) to 60 pieces (full enrollment) with no minimum penalty. Each weeks dated camp tee is a fresh design, not a reorder, and the print-to-order model accommodates the cadence natively.
Friday pickup is the moment most camp programs leave apparel revenue on the table. The kids are tired, the parents are picking up bags, and nobody has time to shop. The pro shops that solve this have the online pro shop pre-loaded on a tablet at the pickup desk. Parents add a hat or a parent polo to the QR-link order, and the piece ships home within a week.
Some clubs run a small reserve buy of the parent pickup polo (10-15 pieces in M, L, XL) at the pickup desk for impulse on-site purchases. The pro shop also captures the email at signup, so a follow-up gift apparel email goes out the week after camp ends and pulls additional orders for the rest of the summer.
Bear Grips Pro Shops prints dated camp tees and parent gift polos with no minimums. Set up the online pro shop and let parents add hats and matching apparel through pickup links.
Start FreeThrough a no-inventory print-on-demand pro shop. Each weeks dated camp tee is ordered the prior Friday, prints to order in the USA, and ships in time for Monday intake. Hats, parent polos, and sibling tees are sold through the online pro shop with parent pickup or direct ship.
The included dated camp tee is the base piece. The strong add-ons are the embroidered camp hat (60 percent attach rate), parent pickup polos (40 percent attach rate), and sibling tees (20 percent attach rate). Camp instructor polos cover the staff side.
Order Friday, deliver to the club by Monday or Tuesday using expedited shipping. Standard ground shipping is sufficient if ordered two weeks in advance. Most camps stack camp-tee orders two to three weeks ahead to ensure on-time delivery.
Yes. Through the online pro shop with a parent-pickup option at the club. Parent polos, sibling tees, and additional sized camp tees can be ordered direct and either picked up at the club or shipped home. Most clubs send a follow-up email mid-week to drive the parent orders.
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