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2 Alliance News Issue 1 Fall 2012 President’s Corner Dear Alliance Members, I am incredibly excited that we have finally launched the Women’s Golf Alliance (The Alliance). Women’s amateur golf associations are the best-kept secret in golf. WGA’s have been supporting women and junior girl golfers for over 100 years, by offering information and education and providing developmental programs, competitive and social golf events, and volunteer opportunities. Through our member organizations, women and girls who have an interest in golf are afforded a wide range of individualized avenues to learn the game and connect with others who play or teach golf. As grass-roots organizations, women’s golf associations work to promote golf for women and girls at their local level. As we all know, the services provided by these women’s golf associations can vary, some provide the full spectrum of handicapping and course rating services, plus championships, fun golf outings, developmental programs, publications and educational and outreach programs. Others remain purely focused on producing a state, regional or national championship. What we all have in common is that we are women who love golf. We love to play the game. We love to promote the game. We love to administer the game. And we love to have fun doing it. My personal hope for The Alliance is that our work will help to facilitate the development of new and awesome collaborations between golf associations. We’ll need to be creative and patient; respectful and assertive; fearless and wise. We represent a minority segment of the golfing population, which makes us also one of the targeted groups for growing the game. We have the opportunity to play a pivotal role as representatives of the female consumer of golf. I hope to see many new faces at the WARM in 2013, when we will hold it one week later in March than normal, to immediately precede the R.R. Donnelly LPGA Founders Cup. Thank you to the founding Member Associations of The Alliance. We hope you enjoy this, our first quarterly publication, and especially the features that highlight the happenings at member associations. Lorem Ipsum Dolor Mary Pomroy, Arizona WGA http://www.womensgolfalliance.org Contact Us Officers Mary Pomroy, President Arizona WGA [email protected] Jen O’Brien, Vice President Delaware WGA [email protected] Nancy Early, Secretary Women’s Metropolitan GA [email protected] Caroline O’Brien, Treasurer Pacific WGA [email protected] Members at Large Donna Altemus WGA of N. California [email protected] Pat Blalock Women’s S. California GA [email protected] Robin Jervey Colorado WGA [email protected] Judy Morris Kansas WGA [email protected] Pat Upham New Hampshire WGA [email protected] 2