2020 IGA Yearbook

2020ANNUAL REPORT YOUTH ON COURSE Youth on Course was started in 2006 by the Northern California G olf Association. At its most basic level, it is a program that subsidizes rounds of golf for juniors at participating courses. It has become v ery 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. It is no w offered in 37 states. 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 1,400 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. WHAT IS YOUTH ON COURSE? NUMBERS CONTINUE TO INCREASE! PARTICIPATING COURSES A.H. Blank Golf Course Airport National Golf Course Bear Creek Golf Course Bent Tree Golf Club Bos Landen Golf Course Bright-Grandview Golf Course Briggs Woods Golf Course Coldwater Golf Links Deer Run Golf Course Fairfield Golf & CC Grinnell College Golf Course Griswold Golf Course Hickory Grove Golf Course Highland Park Golf Course Hunters Ridge Golf Course Jester Park Golf Course Jones Park Golf Course Lake Panorama National Golf Course Pine Knolls Country Club River Ridge Golf Course Shenandoah Community GC Tara Hills Country Club The Meadows Golf Club The Preserve on Rathbun Lake The Ridge Golf Club Three Elms Golf Course Timberline Golf Course Twin Pines Golf Course Waveland Golf Course 2018 97 2019 157 2020 271 MEMBERSHIPS PARTICIPATING COURSES 2018 15 2019 28 2020 29 ROUNDS POSTED 2018 275 2019 451 2020 721