WOMEN WELCOME HERE! BEST
PRACTICES
CHECKLIST
FOR GROWING WOMEN'S GOLF
Does
your facility?
•Offer a choice of
lesson formats - including group lessons?
•Offer a free
introductory golf lesson?
•Provide women with
clubs at no charge to new golfers?
•Offer affordable
clinics?
•Offer lessons at
varying times (daytime and after work)?
•Offer women-only
clinics?
•Advertise programs
using the key words and phrases “for beginners,” “no experience
necessary,” “no pressure,” “fun,” and “meet other
women?”
•Offer written
handouts with basic information for new
golfers?
Does
your facility?
•Offer supervised
practice programs?
•Offer a social time
before or after classes or leagues?
•Allow time for
introductions at classes and use nametags?
•Help women find
friends to golf with?
•Post a “looking for a
partner?” sheet in the pro shop?
•Include lessons about
etiquette, rules and golf culture during novice
lessons?
•Promote and
legitimize 9-hole rounds?
•Experiment with
“short course” options and 3-hole loops?
•Teach how to play
quickly and when to pick up your ball?
Does
your facility?
•Offer beginners
playing opportunities and novice leagues?
•Offer a choice of
playing formats: competitive and
non-competitive?
•Host a women’s
charity tournament or event?
•Promote handicap
registration?
•Publicize women’s
programs in brochures and on bulletin boards and local
media?
•Employ female
instructors?
•Have clean,
attractive rest rooms on the course?
•Have an attractive
women’s locker room?
Does
your facility?
•Have a women’s
association?
•Meet regularly with
leaders of your women’s golf committee
to access progress or problems?
•Provide mentors and
coaches for new golfers?
•Offer late afternoon
or early bird tee times for a few holes?
•Offer weekend tee
times for women?
•Maintain a database
of women golfers?
•Have a newsletter for
women?
•Stock a selection of
women’s clothes and accessories?
•Display photos of
famous female golfers in the pro shop?
Does
your facility?
•Sell books and videos
about women’s golf?
•Play videos about
women’s golf in the pro shop?
•Subscribe to golf
magazines for the women’s locker rooms?
•Have female staff in
the shop and on the range?
•Train staff in how
best to serve women customers?
•Offer golf programs
for mothers and children, couples and families? Have appropriate
yardages and tee placements for women?
•Provide easy to spot
yardage markers between 100 yards and the pin?
•Provide ratings and
slopes for women for multiple tees?
•Have a girls golf
program?
Does
your facility?
•Encourage feedback
and opinions from women customers?
•Include women on
important facility committees?
•Include photos of
women and girls having fun in marketing
materials?
•Know your women golfers by their skill, frequency of
lessons and play, and purchases in the pro
shop?
•Send “thank you”
notes to your best customers?
•Personally
congratulate women golfers on their
accomplishments?
To
learn more, read Women
Welcome Here! A Guide
to Growing Women's Golf by Nancy Berkley. Available at www.ngf.org
(publications) or online at The PGA, NGCOA and GRAA members'
website. Click Here for
ordering Women Welcome Here
