Golf

Golf Australia's Vision 2025: The future of women and girls in golf, opens in a new tab, Golf Australia, (February 2018). In February 2018, Golf Australia launched a strategy to address a fundamental imbalance in the game and draw more women and girls to golf. The four-pillar strategy aims to significantly increase participation rates, along with improving culture at golf clubs around the country so that our game is opened up to everyone.

• Culture and leadership: more women on boards and in senior positions; opening up clubhouses and courses and making them more welcoming – equal access, equal rights.
• Grassroots: introductions to golf that are friendlier and more social; more emphasis on fun and family; better transition to courses and clubs; hubs and networks for women and girls.
• High performance and coaching: More heroes to inspire the next generation; more female coaches to nurture and develop them; more chances for the elite to compete and hone their skills.
• Marketing and positioning: Changing the way the sport is perceived; more women and girls proud to say ‘I play golf’; promoting the fun, healthy, social game – a second sport and a sport for life.

The Golf Australia website provides links to several resources and support programs as part of bringing the Vision 2025 Strategy to life:

• Vision 2025: The future of women and girls in golf, opens in a new tab, Golf Australia, (February 2018). Full strategy.
• Resources, opens in a new tab to support clubs including examples of news stories, case studies, Visionary of the Year winners, best practice in clubs and club support templates, and more.
• Information on becoming a R&A Women in Golf Charter signatory, opens in a new tab.
• AGF Junior Girls Scholarship Program, opens in a new tab. The program’s primary aim is to grow the female game to encourage young girls who have shown promise and interest in golf, retaining existing girls and supporting junior program participants to continue their golfing journey.
• Even Par, opens in a new tab is a Golf Australia program aimed to support golf clubs to facilitate gender equality in golf and the broader community.
• Equality for women at Royal Fremantle, opens in a new tab, Golf Australia, (1 July 2020). Upon starting his role as General Manager at the club in mid-2018, Gavin Burt identified several inefficiencies and challenges. “It was also evident that our club membership was aging and our constitution, in my view, was out of date and prejudiced against women." This case study demonstrates how the club successfully implemented this change.

MyGolf, opens in a new tab. Golf Australia's program dedicated to making golf fun, accessible and a game for life for kids of all ages and abilities. Can search for a girls-only junior programs via the 'find a program' section.

Get Into Golf Women, opens in a new tab. Join a group of other women having their first experience with golf.

Guidelines

• Guidelines: Equal opportunity for women and girls in golf, opens in a new tab, Australian Human Rights Commission, Golf Australia and R&A, (March 2019). These Guidelines have been developed to provide guidance to golf clubs on the promotion of equal opportunity for women and girls in golf. The Guidelines provide: information about the operation of the Commonwealth of Australia 'Sex Discrimination Act 1984' in relation to unlawful and permissible discrimination on the basis of sex and practical guidance for promoting equal opportunity for women and girls in golf clubs.