2018 Yearbook

92 JUNIOR GOLF & PLAYER DEVELOPMENT YOUTH ON COURSE In 2018 Iowa became the 21st state to offer Youth on Course PARTICIPATING COURSES A.H. Blank Golf Course, Des Moines Airport National Golf Course, Cedar Rapids Bear Creek Golf Course, Forest City Bos Landen Golf Course, Pella Bright-Grandview Golf Course, Des Moines Coldwater Golf Links, Ames Deer Run Golf Course, Hinton (Sioux City) Hickory Grove Golf Course, Oelwein Hunters Ridge Golf Course, Marion Jester Park Golf Course, Granger Jones Park Golf Course, Cedar Rapids River Ridge Golf Course, Independence Tara Hills Country Club, Van Horne Three Elms Golf Course, Independence Twin Pines Golf Course, Cedar Rapids Waveland Golf Course, Des Moines More Courses will be added in 2019, please check website for updates. (Over 1,000 courses nationally) $5 Round of Golf Youth on Course was started in 2006 by the Northern California Golf Association. At its most basic level, it is a program that subsidizes rounds of golf for juniors at participating courses. It has become very popular and, in 2014, the NCGA began expanding the program to other states and regions, spreading essentially from west to east. In 2018 Iowa became the 21st state to offer Youth on Course. The concept is this: A junior boy or girl age 6 to 18 can join Youth on Course for a $15 yearly fee. That gets them access to any participating Youth on Course facility (there are over 1,000 nationally) to play a round of golf for $5 or less. Then the participating course receives an additional subsidy ($) for that round. Participating courses can put restrictions on days and times when the YOC rates are available, making it an opportunity to help grow future golfers plus drive additional business during non-peak hours.