PWGA NOTES & QUOTES
donated each year to the United
Veteran Service (Formerly United
Volunteer Service) – Swing Club
and those funds along with other
club and member donations have
kept this program going. The
Swing Club was founded in 1941
by Helen Lengfeld – who also
founded PWGA in 1947. The
Swing Club is a golf rehabilitation
program for veterans. The Swing
club serves Veterans out of the
Menlo Park VA and the program is
run at the Moffet Field Golf
Course, with 7 events a year it is a
vibrant program enjoyed by many
veterans.
We would like to say THANK YOU
to these clubs and to all of the
other member clubs whose
donations clearly make a
difference in the lives of your
women in High School and
Veterans who have served our
country.
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President’s
Message
…have been doing. When asked
to assess the viability of this
approach in May, USGA said it
was too early to comment as its
partnership model is still “under
construction.”
At a webinar earlier this month,
USGA announced that its
worldwide handicapping system
has encountered some snags, and
that it is not expected to be ready
until 2020. Nevertheless, USGA
intends to make public its new
partnership model sometime
during the 3rd quarter of 2016 (in
other words, before September
30), and at the same time will
release a request for proposals to
all state and regional associations
who wish to become USGA
partners. We don’t know what
forms the model or the RFP will
take, so we don’t know how we
will respond, whether as the
umbrella group or on behalf of
PWGA individually or both.
In the meantime, we are
exploring other options on a
parallel track. One is a
partnership with Northern
California Golf Association, the
existing “full service” association
in this geographic region.
Unfortunately, without knowing
USGA’s model, NCGA is unable to
make a specific proposal
concerning how a PWGA/NCGA
partnership might work. We are
also exploring whether handicap
services might be obtained from a
third party vendor so that our
members could continue to play
in club-, area- and associationwide handicapped tournaments,
and could pay for an individual
NCGA membership if they needed
an official USGA handicap.
The bottom line is that everything
is still up in the air, but we are
working very hard to make sure
we are ready for whatever comes
our way. As I promised last
February, I will persevere to keep
PWGA alive and vibrant for the
next 70 years. If you would like
more information on what steps
we are taking or have some great
ideas about something different
we can explore, please contact
me at [email protected].
And there will be more
information forthcoming at our
annual meeting, to be held after
Tuesday’s golf at the Helen
Lengfeld tournament on
October 4, 2016.