Leaders from the Northern Nevada Golf Association and Southern Nevada Golf Association are meeting and are on a path to bring the North and South together for the betterment of golf in the Silver State. The move is spurred on by the United States Golf Association.
The PDF at this Why Nevada Golf link discusses some of the top reasons why working together can be best for both sides of the state.
Both the NNGA and SNGA are USGA Allied Golf associations. The two historic organizations already collaborate including working together to host and organize top Nevada State amateur tournaments each year including the Women’s State Amateur, Women’s Senior State Amateur, Nevada State Amateur and Senior Nevada State Amateur, among others.
More to come …
TOGETHER IS BETTER BENEFITS
- Provide more services to our members and clubs (a combination of existing NNGA and SNGA benefits)
- Greater resources for testing and qualification of new member/club programming and services (golf leagues, recreational membership programming, travel, instruction, etc.)
- Significant “back office” efficiencies with shared services (Finance, accounting, IT, HR, etc.)
- One integrated marketing program, with greater resources to drive membership growth and club support
- Additional scale provides access to state-wide and potentially new sponsorships for revenue
- Improved impact with influencing statewide issues (State government, water issues, etc.) 3 Putting the combined NNGA/SNGA data in perspective
- Combined revenue: $1,980,547 (24th nationally and similar to Utah GA and New York State GA)
- Combined Full Time Equivalent Employees: 10.3 (very close to national average of 11 and similar to Wisconsin State GA)
- Combined number of Clubs: 163 (26th nationally and similar to Tennessee GA, Maryland and Nebraska)
- Combined number of Events: 145 (higher than the national average of 128)
- New peers for Nevada would be NYSGA, Indiana, Central Links, Maryland, Utah, Tennessee
- NGF reports there are 235,000 golfers in the state and 82% of the facilities in the state are open to the public = opportunity for membership growth