Michael Scholz: Golf Day Emcee

Professional golfer and master of ceremonies Michael Scholz delivers polished event hosting, engaging storytelling, and high-impact golf entertainment backed by global tour experience.

Quick Facts:

  • Highlights:
    • Professional golfer and current Sunshine Tour member
    • Extensive international tour competition experience
    • MC for hundreds of corporate, sporting, and fundraising events
    • Experienced live auction facilitator at golf days and charity events
  • Formats:

    Master of Ceremonies, Professional Golfer, and Event Entertainer

  • Audience:

    Corporate events, golf days, charity fundraisers, conferences, gala dinners, and sporting functions seeking credible, versatile hosting and entertainment.

  • Outcomes:
    1. Smooth, professional event flow with confident audience engagement
    2. Increased participation and energy at auctions and fundraising events
    3. Memorable entertainment that blends sport, skill, and storytelling
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  • Travels from: Johannesburg

Talent Short Bio

Michael Scholz is an accomplished speaker, master of ceremonies, and professional golfer with extensive experience hosting and entertaining at corporate, sporting, and fundraising events. A current member of the Sunshine Tour, Michael brings credibility, confidence, and a natural on-stage presence shaped by years of elite competition.

Michael has competed across several of the world’s major professional golf circuits, including the European Tour, Asian Tour, and European Challenge Tour, alongside the Sunshine Tour. This international exposure informs his engaging storytelling style, allowing him to connect authentically with audiences ranging from business leaders to sports enthusiasts.

As an MC, Michael has hosted hundreds of events over recent years, seamlessly adapting his tone and delivery to suit comedy functions, corporate conferences, gala dinners, and formal awards evenings. He is also highly experienced in supporting auction memorabilia companies, integrating live auctions into golf days and fundraising events to maximize audience engagement and results.

Michael Scholz is an accomplished speaker and has MC’d hundreds of events over the past few years. He has also assisted a number of auction memorabilia companies with incorporating and auctioning auction items at golf days and fundraising events.

Michael Scholz is a professional golfer and current member of the Sunshine Tour.

In the past, he has competed extensively on a number of the major professional golfing circuits around the world, namely the European Tour, the Asian Tour, the European Challenge Tour and of course, on the South African Sunshine Tour.

Michael Scholz is an accomplished speaker and has MC’d hundreds of events over the past few years. He has also assisted a number of auction memorabilia companies with incorporating and auctioning auction items at golf days and fundraising events.

He can adapt the genre of the event’s requirements from comedy functions through to formal and gala evenings.

The Show

Typically the trick shot show is around 40 minutes, but can be adapted to be longer or shorter. No less than 30 minutes is required for the full entertainment value to be achieved.

Michael Scholz’s trick shot show incorporates various trick shots, including hitting golf balls:

  • Off a skateboard
  • Backwards
  • Left-Handed & Right-Handed
  • One-Handed
  • Off One Knee
  • Off Both Knees
  • With the back of a Club
  • Off one Leg
  • Off a Beer Bottle
  • Off a cellphone
  • High Tees

Michael’s show also features various impersonations of some of the world’s legendary golfers, many of whom he has played and socialised with.

The impersonations include Gary Player, Ian Woosnam, David Feherty, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, John Daly, Phil Mickelson and a few others.

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