The AGIC

A meeting in Sydney on 8 September 2006, involving a wide range of Australian golf administrators and key industry stakeholders, considered the major challenges facing the Australian Golf Industry into the future. At this meeting there was unanimous agreement to the need for a more co-ordinated industry approach. Following assessment of various golf industry models overseas the meeting agreed to the formation of a new peak industry group to be known as the Australian Golf Industry Council (AGIC).

The meeting agreed that it did not want to create yet another administrative body and as such the workings of the group would need to be supported collectively by the agencies represented at the meeting.

The PGA of Australia, who initiated the meeting on behalf the other professional bodies (PGA Tour of Australasia and ALPG) and Golf Australia, agreed to provide Secretariat services for the AGIC for the initial 12 month period.

 

This website contains information on how the AGIC was established, its membership, its charter and the projects it has decided to work on with an “across the industry approach”. 

The inaugural Chair of the AGIC, Max Garske, the CEO of the PGA of Australia, recently commented “the formation of the AGIC is an important step which will help to ensure that the leaders of both the sport and the business aspects of the Australian Golf Industry come together on a regular basis and work together for the common good of the game and the industry”.