One of the Core Components of the PNWPGA Strategic Plan is Community Outreach and Charity. Your Board of Directors recognizes the importance of being active in our local communities, as it assists in helping grow the game and bettering the employment of individual PGA members. Here is where you can help: if you or your … Read more
As we spring into the golf season, the Pacific Northwest Section is set for a successful year. This is largely due to the efforts of many, not just a few. Specifically, I speak of our Committee System. As I became President and in turn had to populate our Section Committees, I realized that we had … Read more
Over the winter break, your Pacific Northwest Section Board of Directors completed a new, long term Strategic Plan. With a Special Task Force that spearheaded the initial efforts, invaluable input from our CEO Jeff Ellison and his staff, and countless hours of input and edits by the entire 14 PGA Member Board, we have a … Read more
Record breaking heat. Record breaking low snowpack. Predictions for very challenging fire season throughout the area. And this is just the start of the summer! With these hot spells at our golf courses, my radar goes up with the safety of the golfers at our club. These ideas are not original, but they do help … Read more
We are emerging out of the best spring ever, eyes focused on the busier summer months ahead. Many of our facilities are seeing record rounds of golf (40% above last year in Washington and Oregon in March, many Idaho and Montana courses opening earlier than ever). Trying to prepare a staff ahead of the “normal” … Read more
Spring is full steam ahead in the Pacific Northwest, as our great weather continues out of the not-winter of 2014/2015. Hopefully, we have taken advantage of the unseasonably nice weather to to increase rounds, lessons, and other activities at our facilities. I know many golf professionals in the Northeastern US would love to be in our situation … Read more