Thank you for registering your Club for your Zone Championship and wish your Club the best of luck in their upcoming event!

This newsletter is your gateway to the latest updates and resources designed to enhance and empower your club and its members.  This newsletter is sent out to you as the club rep but please share this information with any other club admins that might need it.  New information for Club Reps this month includes:

- Upcoming Regular Club Events

- Rickie Fowler's thoughts on having a Handicap Index

- NCGA Reach Grant Program Now Open

- Free NCGA Club Finder Tool

- Communicating with your Members

- Bryan Rodriguez

Regular Club Events Open for Registration

Thank you for registering for your upcoming Zone Championship.  If only the men's club signed up, remember that your club always has the option of registering a second team to their Zone Event as long as the second team is comprised of all female players.  If you would like to register a second team, please contact Robert Holbrook at 831.625.4653 ext. 232 or via email at rholbrook@ncga.org.

Other Club Events open for registration:

Four-Ball Net Championship is a two-person best-ball event and your club can send up to three teams to represent your club.  Please have your club admin register your club's teams before it fills!

Team Match is a competition between players that belong to regular NCGA member clubs and you will face off against other clubs in your area in 12-person team matches. The deadline to register for Team Match is March 31st.

Rickie Fowler's thoughts on having a Handicap Index

Have you ever been asked by members or prospective members: "Why do I need a handicap index?"

Such a simple question but the answer can sometimes be complex!  At the recent AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, we took the opportunity to engage with Rickie Fowler, Wyndham Clark, and Steve Young to explore their insights on this frequently asked question. Discover their thoughtful responses below, and consider these perspectives whenever this question arises.

2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Players Talk Handicap Index

How to Use the GHIN Mobile App Handicap Calculator 

The NCGA Reach Grant Program is now open for 2025!

The NCGA is committed to fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and accessible golfing community.  In alignment with this vision, we are pleased to announce the opening of our NCGA Reach Grant Program for 2025.

The objective of the grant program is to help enable Northern California public golf facilities and public programs to test new programming to be more inclusive, enhance the diversity of golfers in our region, and help grow the game of golf.  

If your club has a program or knows of a program that is deserving of this grant please have them submit a grant application through the link below:

https://ncga.org/about/reach

The deadline for submitting applications is April 21, 2025.

Free NCGA Club Finder Tool!

The NCGA is implementing a new club finder tool that promises to enhance your club's reach in several impactful ways:

- Unlock a wave of new members eager to join your club and watch your membership flourish.

- Empower prospective members to discover the best club for them.

- Gain insights into what other clubs offer, which can inspire new innovative ideas for your club. 

- This new Club Finder Tool will be included on the NCGA.org Join Now page.

We are getting very close to launching this program and if your club would like to be included in the NCGA Club Finder Tool Program, let us know more about your club by submitting this short form linked here.

Communications with Your Members

Last month we showed you how our Communications with NCGA members are scheduled.  But how do you communicate your club information to your members? 

While some larger clubs might have access to a stand-alone software program, every club can utilize the email feature available on their Memberplanet platform, and they also have the opportunity to create a club website using Memberplanet, all completely free of charge.

If your club would like to learn more about these features please click the links below:

Memberplanet Email Campaigns

Memberplanet Site Builder

In the coming months, we will be sharing more insights so we can grow collectively!

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