The Nebraska Girls State Golf tournament wrapped up Tuesday, but before it did, competitors left their mark on its host cities.

In the past Grand Island has hosted the entire tournament.

This year, they had two of the three classes in town.

But community leaders say the tournament still has a big impact, bringing in thousands of dollars.

Before the first golfer even tees off, the tournament is impacting its hosts.

"They do a lot of practice rounds earlier in the week, so some of them spend the night then too," said Randy Wiges, club manager of Riverside Golf Club, "So it has a great impact on all of Grand Island."

"We're looking at about $25,000 just in the 2 days of economic impact just from the competitors alone," said Renee Seifert, Grand Island/Hall County Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director.

Add their followers and community leaders estimate the impact goes up to more than $50,000 in direct impact alone.

"The fact that they come in on Monday and Tuesday--which are usually slow days--it's not a weekend but a slow day in our hotels and maybe some of our businesses. It generates some additional business in this community," said Seifert.

That's why Grand Island has started an organization to woo more tournaments into town.

"We just recently formed the Greater Grand Island Sports Council," said Seifert.

And they say they'll try for girls state golf again despite losing Class A to Norfolk this year.

Hosts say the impact from Classes B and C are welcomed.

"C is actually the largest class and has the most impact of any class in the state because there's a lot more golfers there and actually, I think they have more followers too," said Wiges.

"From my perspective, it's more of being able to kind of share the wealth a little bit," said Seifert.

Hotel managers say they have noticed less golfer-occupied rooms this year but they're not worried because most rooms are filled people from other local events.

167 girls are competing in Grand Island this year.