PGA Inclusion | Governance

We are committed to fostering environments, environment, systems, and structures that create the opportunity for all PGA Professionals and PGA employees to develop, grow, and lead. Conducting inclusion assessments across our national and PGA Section business operations allow us to identify gaps and create pathways to closing them.

Diversifying the demographic composition of the Association’s national and Section Committees, across dimensions of difference is an area of focus.

To that end, PGA LEAD was launched in 2016 and is designed to identify, develop, and mentor PGA Members from diverse backgrounds as they pursue leadership positions at the Chapter, Section and National levels of the Association. PGA LEAD also aids in developing PGA Members who have a desire to serve and make an impact on nonprofit boards within the communities where they work and live.

There are numerous success stories of PGA LEAD participants, highlighted by three PGA Section Presidents, three Section Vice Presidents, two PGA Section Secretaries, 21 serving as PGA Section Board Members and 29 serving on National PGA Committees, and one PGA Master Professional.

Since its inception in 2016 and now in its ninth year, PGA LEAD has helped produce more than 100 impactful leaders across the Association.