Last Week Lexus provided over 300 Vehicles as courtesy cars for the U S Open Golf Tournament at The Country Club In Brookline, Massachusetts. Has anyone bought one of the Courtesy Cars from Former U S Golf Tournaments? If so, what kind of mileage, what was their condition, how did the warranty work with the mileage on the cars, was the navigation cleared of the programed directions put in for the tournament, and any other helpful information. Were you offered a ' deal" for what you paid? If you bought one would you do it again, given the opportunity?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hadn't heard about it. Which models were they?

They normally offer their entire line up bar the F models.

They did supply all models across the line and to my understanding the F models were included. Apparently this has been happening for a number of years at the Open and several other major tournaments.

I'm surprised they even went forward with the program, considering how scarce inventories are these days.

Tournament Publicity cars are pretty standard marketing practice. The cars use varies, some
just sit parked on the greens and driveways and are only driven to and from the course to the
hotel while others get Airport duty and and are driven farther and faster. All reflect a Date of
First Use (DOFU) that starts the warrantee clock. Use and abuse is generally light, bag scrapes
in the cargo area, few if any cigarette smokers. Cars are awarded to local dealers to sell, technically
they are New (untitled) and receive any current New Car Incentives. Benefits include the option
level varies a bit from the usual Dealer Council standard and you may find a unicorn in the herd.

likely the models used cannot be sold to the public and are used as fleet/promotion vehicles only. if they were, they would be de-badged of any logos from the event, and made to resemble the basic car that it was. would you really want to buy a taxi? i suppose people do buy rental cars after their use.

i attended a lexus release event of the last gen IS, and they let us drive them on a closed course (along with other f-models across the lineup) - all for free btw. we thrashed them across the cones as they were timing us like an autocross event! it would not be wise for lexus to resell them after getting beat by many folks. i fondly recall "autocrossing" the LS460 f-sport that same day too, which felt pretty nimble for such a barge!

Not sure if the cars are treated any differently now, but back in the mid-90s I bought a Cadillac, as well as arranged for a friend to buy a van from another dealer I knew, that had been used at a local PGA Senior (now Champions) Tour event here. After the tournament, GM would distribute the cars to dealers in the area and provide several thousands of dollars of discounts to the dealers. The cars were marketed as PGA courtesy cars and sold as a dealer would sell a demo.

The local Cadillac dealer told me the story another Cadillac dealer had told him of a courtesy car that a pro at a PGA Tour event back in the 70s had failed to turn in. That dealer spotted the car a few months later. The pro had apparently “given” the car to a woman he hooked up with the week of the tournament.

Saw a bunch of them when I was in Boston last week. The only branding they had was a small maybe 8.5 x 11 inch sticker that indicated it was for the US Open. Mostly RX and ES with some GX sprinkled in there. The lot outside of BOS airport had ~30 that I could see and I saw another 10 or so ferrying people from a hotel across the street

Lexus has been supplying courtesy vehicles for many years for the Memorial Tournament held here annually in the Columbus area. Afterwards, they are offered for sale by the local dealer. The dealer is not shy about advertising them as tournament cars.

They definitely get sold, my sister owned a GS350 that had been used at a U.S. Open in years past. It served its purpose well and was sold with 140k miles several years later.