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Golf Business Conference is the one event where you can do it all: learn, grow, connect and celebrate!
Join hundreds of your owner and operator peers January 20-22 in Orlando for the industry’s largest annual gathering of golf course owners and operators, and NGCOA’s annual member meeting. Invest just a few days to build a rapport among your leadership team, experience timely and relevant education, engage in plentiful and meaningful networking and valuable peer discussions, and find inspiration for 2025!
You and your staff will return to your golf business with new and stronger relationships, an insightful and accurate outlook on the future of our industry, and tools and tangible plans for streamlining operations, reinvigorating your staff, improving marketing efforts, increasing revenue and more. There’s simply no better way to start a new year!
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NGCOA 2025
Award of Merit Winner
Tom Watson
NETWORKING & SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Reconnect with old friends and colleagues, and forge new relationships at plentiful networking and social activities: the annual Yamaha Golf Outing (an add-on to your GBC25 registration), the popular “New NGCOA Member & GBC First Time Attendee Reception,” “Owner’s Dinner” (by invitation only; please contact Rachel Carter, Sr. Director of Membership, at [email protected]), opening and closing receptions, frequent networking breaks, a Sponsor Fair with happy hour, NGCOA awards recognition including Award of Merit winner Tom Watson, various activities in the NGCOA Booth in the PGA Show exhibition hall, and more!
EDUCATION
Each year at the Golf Business Conference, expert speakers offer relevant and timely education on the most critical areas of golf course ownership and operations. We’re excited to expand Golf Business Conference 2025 education to include breakout sessions in targeted tracks, pre-conference sessions (including the popular Masterminds workshop), PGA joint sessions, opening and closing session guest speakers, and more! You’ll get answers to your most pressing questions, learn best practices, discover solutions that work for your business, and ultimately be able to make more informed and educated decisions for your golf course business!
2025 PGA SHOW
Consider extending your stay through Friday, January 24 to attend select education and the expansive exhibit hall at the 2025 PGA Show — included at no extra charge with your GBC25 badge as a result of our continuing strategic alliance with Reed Exhibitions and the PGA of America.
Learn more about the 2025 PGA Show here.
“I really wanted to attend the classes and so I booked the event. I’m so glad I came because there wasn’t a single day or class that either the speaker or an attendee didn’t engage in conversation with me. I benefited so much from those conversations as well that I came back armed with just the information that I needed to make the decisions that I need to make for 2024.“
Cheryl Pardue | General Manager, Mirimichi Golf Course | Millington, TN
REGISTER NOW to join us January 20-22, 2025!
Bring More, Save More!
Four (or more!) heads are better than one, especially when there are so many people to meet, sessions to attend, discussions and events to participate in, and fun to be had! Bring 4 or more representatives from the same company and receive a $100 discount, per attendee! Divide and conquer the whole conference, and when you return to your course, you can regroup to share what you’ve learned, build strategies and plans, test your new tools and techniques, and work together more cohesively! It’s a win-win!
New Members Attend Free!
Join the NGCOA and get a free GBC25 registration! To learn more about membership and join NGCOA, email Sherea Malcolm, NGCOA’s Assistant Director of Membership, at [email protected]. She can process your membership and your GBC25 registration!
The Rosen Centre Hotel will serve as the GBC25 host hotel, with most Golf Business Conference education, networking and social activities, and overnight accommodations taking place there. If the Rosen Centre is sold out, please book at the neighboring Rosen Plaza Hotel — also conveniently adjacent to the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), home to the 2025 PGA Show — or another available hotel. Click here to reserve your room today.
Southwest Airlines is the Preferred Carrier for GBC25! GBC25 attendees will receive a discount on travel booked on Southwest Airlines to Orlando now through January 17, 2025 for travel between January 17 and January 25, 2025. (Once you complete the GBC25 registration process, you’ll receive more details and a flight booking code in the emailed confirmation.)
If you’re a current NGCOA member and renewed your Yamaha Golf Cars contract in 2024, you’re eligible for a complimentary pass to GBC25. Contact Sherea Malcolm, NGCOA’s Assistant Director of Membership, at [email protected] to register for GBC25 at no cost.
As in years past, GBC25 education sessions will be eligible for continuing education credits from the PGA of America, LPGA, CMAA and GCSAA.