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OGA Programs & Services

Over the years, the Oregon Golf Association has expanded the number of areas in which it serves it's members. When a golfer joins an OGA Club, a portion of the dues that member pays is remitted to the OGA in order to fund a wide variety of activities that benefit golf in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Here's Some of What We've Done . . . by the numbers in 2011!

  • OGA events were responsible for more than 11,000 rounds across the region providing a direct economic to nearly half of all facilities in the region totaling more than $570,000.
  • Provided free junior memberships at OGA Member Clubs with a value of over $70,000.
  • More than 1,500 golfers attended an OGA Rules event providing a service valued at more than $37,500.  
  • Provided free course measuring and rating services to more than 30 facilities, traveling more than 4,400 miles and making more than 71,000 obstacle measurements. Based on a fee of $2,000 per 9-holes charged to facilities without OGA Member Clubs, the value of this service exceeds $76,000.
  • Provide news and information services attracting more than 1 million pageviews from more than 350,000 visitors.
  • In-kind and cash payments made to 501(c)(3) charitable organizations totaled more than $130,000.

We help protect the business of our game!

We take a leadership role with the five core organizations making up the Golf Alliance of Oregon (Oregon Chapter PGA of America, Oregon Club Managers Association, Oregon Golf Course Owners Association, Oregon Golf Course Superintendents Association, and the OGA).  In the past year we published "Oregon's Golf Economy" an economic impact study showing that golf has an economic impact of $2.5 billion and supports over 27,000 jobs.  The efforts of the Alliance have been recognized on the floor of the House of Representatives and on June 16, 2011, Governor Kitzhaber signed into law HB 3030  providing a tremendous boost to golf course bottom lines.     

We're Your Partner on & Off the Course!

Click here for a flyer that details all the programs, services and benefits provided to individuals, clubs and courses in the region. 

 

 

Just a few of those benefits are listed below.

 

  • Official USGA Handicap Indexes - The OGA is the only association licensed by the USGA to provide official USGA Handicap Indexes to golfers in Oregon and SW Washington.  GHIN is a computation service offered by the USGA and is only available through authorized golf associations.  More than 3 million golfers and 60 golf associations use GHIN to compute handicap indexes for the members of clubs.

    • The GHIN Software Suite is provided to OGA Member Clubs.  This suite of software includes the following:
      • GHIN Handicap Program -- a posting station at golf courses
      • TPP -- the Tournament Pairing Program that helps tournament committees, league managers, adminstrators and golf professionals run successful events.
      • GHINCLUB.NET -- is a internet based interface to the GHIN Handicap Program that helps handicap and membership chairs manage club business anywhere!
      • eClubHouse -- a FREE web site for Member Clubs to post news, information, events as well as manage memberships.  It includes eCommerce capabilities for club to make joining even easier for golfers.  eClubhouse is integrated with both GHIN and TPP!
    • IGN - The international Golfers Network links handicap and score information for those members that are members of more than one association including several that are not on GHIN including Arizona, Utah and S. Nevada.  It also allows an OGA member to post their scores at the course played when they are visiting a non-GHIN association.
  • Course Rating and Measuring - The OGA is the only organization licensed by the USGA to analyze, measure and issue course and slope rating for all golf courses in the region.  Golf courses that host OGA Member Clubs are rated at least once every seven years.
  • Discounted Greens Fees at the OGA Golf Course in Woodburn, OR - All members of the OGA receive significant disounts on greens fees at this Association owned golf course.  Members also receive reciprocal discounted rates at the Home Course in Dupont, Wash. (owned and operated by the Pacific Northwest Golf Association and the Washington State Golf Association.)
  • Tournaments & Championships - The OGA conducts regional championships for players of all ages and playing abilities from the Net Championship to the Oregon Amateur.
  • Junior Golf Development - The OGA, through Oregon Junior Golf Fund, Inc., administers more than 60 event days of competition for junior golfers age 8-17.  Its an ideal developmental program for competitive junior golfers hoping to playing in high school and collegiate golf.
  • Evans Scholarship Program
  • The OGA provides informative educational programs and seminars on Rules, Pace of Play and Etiquette, and More!
  • We provide financial and promotional support to Turfgrass Research, Environmental Concerns, and provide Legislative Reviews on behalf of the golf industry.
  • We work closely with our allied associations inclduing the OPGA (Oregon Chapter of the PGA of America), OGCOA (Oregon Golf Course Owners Association), CMO (Club Managers of Oregon) and the OGCSA (Oregon Golf Course Superintendents Association) as well as the USGA, PNGA (Pacific Northwest Golf Association), WSGA (Washington State Golf Association), BCGA (British Columbia Golf Assocaition), IGA (Idaho Golf Association.
  • Regional and Association Publications
  • The Oregon Golf Association is actively involved in the promotion of golf.  This includes working with organizations such as Travel Oregon.

Please contact the Oregon Golf Association with any questions relating to the many services that OGA provides to OGA Member Clubs and other industry stakeholders.