Job Description
WHY WORK AT THE STPGA?
The STPGA is a fun, energetic business where no two days are alike with fourteen (14) full-time staff members and 15-20 interns dispersed across three (3) seasons. Employees value teamwork, collaboration, and opportunities to showcase their skill set against a shared mission and purpose. The STPGA believes that a great company culture and a work-life balance is vital to our success and continues to strive towards being a place our team enjoys working at each day.
While working within the Prestige Tour Department, this individual will have the experience of running, leading, and managing one of the best junior golf tours in the country. Started in 2012 with 5 events, 2024 saw a record year with 39 events, 1 Tour Championship, and 1 Ryder Cup style event. This tour is the highest-level junior golf program managed by the Southern Texas PGA.
This position would be involved in executing and consolidating an Annual Budget of over $1.8M and round out our department with our third employee. This position will be a great opportunity for someone looking to impact lives through golf, run highly competitive 2-day junior golf events, and provide exceptional customer service.
JOB OVERVIEW!
This Prestige Tour Coordinator will be focused on being the advance official for 10-20 events a year for the Srixon Prestige Tour. This individual will work hand in hand with the Prestige Tour Manager and Coordinator within the department to ensure each event has the same customer experience, showcases the host facility, and is run as a high quality 36-hole Championship.
The position will lead interns, area staff, and volunteers on-site during these events and work extremely closely with the host facility to ensure our customers have a first-class experience. This includes doing site visits, host memorandums, rule sheets, marking golf courses, picking hole locations, and player communication. This position will also help the overall department with scheduling, marketing of our events, pre-event communication with the facility and players, recruitment of volunteers and staff, and onsite administration.
Travel and weekend work are a big part of this job as the overall schedule has grown over the last few years and during the school year, weekends are the only time to administer events. However, our unlimited PTO policy allows for balance during busy times of the year as well as opportunities to recharge during the week.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
The STPGA is looking for a candidate who brings with them a proactive and forward-thinking mindset, has a passion for junior golf tournament operations and a desire to elevate their career. In addition, we are looking for someone who has a service mindset with a passion for serving junior golfers, parents, and spectators, and has a willingness to do the small and mundane tasks that are required for the success of the team and overall organization.
This position requires a bachelor's degree and someone with experience in golf tournament administration and operation.
PGA of America Members and Associates are welcome to apply but not required and having experienced a USGA / PGA Rules of Golf Workshop or other Rules of Golf training is a benefit.
WHAT DOES THIS POSITION LOOK LIKE?
Advance Official
Advance Official duties vary event to event, but would include facility coordination for golf, food and beverage offerings, starting time parameters, golf course maintenance conditions and practices, setting schedules of events, tracking registrations through the BlueGolf Tournament Software, administering site visits, setting infrastructure plans, coordinating signage, trophy, and tee gift orders, financial tracking and consolidation, and more!
Golf Course Setup
This position would plan and execute golf course marking prior to the event. The day prior to an event you would be responsible for setting up tournament infrastructure, including but not limited to, tents, flying banners, signage systems, stake and rope, and more depending on the type of event. The position would also be responsible for selecting Hole Locations for the event rounds and entering them into the StrackaLine system.
Tournament Days
While on-site at tournaments, this will be a culmination of all the administrative duties accomplished and pre-planning! This position will lead the intern team, train volunteer rules officials, set up the golf course, monitor and enforce pace of play, fill snack baskets and coolers, assist with trash, print paperwork between rounds, and much more! Tournament days are long days but rewarding to see it all come together!
Equipment Management
This position would be responsible for maintaining all tournament equipment, including the vehicles, trailer, and warehouse. This involves ordering new equipment, performing repairs on existing equipment, and outsourcing work that cannot be completed in-house. It is critical to the success of our organization that all equipment is in good working order and all areas remain clean to promote the longevity of the equipment. A company truck and trailer are provided when running our events.
Financial Management
Our Prestige Tour has grown to a $1.8M operation annually with many moving parts from ordering tee gifts, paying staff, course fees, travel expenses, entry fees, etc. This position will be responsible for handling event financials and hitting financial benchmarks.
Business Planning
Our Prestige Tour has an annual business plan with goals and objectives and this position would be involved in creating this plan annually. Included in building this plan involves understanding of AJGA PBE, Texas Junior Golf Alliance, and the overall landscape of competitive junior golf. This position will help with determining exemption allocation, Ben Hogan Cup, and Bayou Cup qualifications. Our overall goal is to continue to increase participation and showcase why the Srixon Prestige Tour is the number one tour in Texas.
Other Operation Items
This position will assist or potentially manage additional events on our tournament schedule. This would include but not limited to STPGA Section Championships, Weekday Little Linkster tournaments, Season Championships for junior golf, PGA TOUR Qualifiers, or other assigned events. With the addition of this position, this will increase our Tournament Operations Team for the entire business from 4 to 5 people.
CANDIDATE ATTRIBUTES
This candidate should display a strong moral character and unquestionable integrity. He or she should show professionalism in all forms, excellent written, verbal, and oral communication skills, and a detail orientated mindset!
Knowledge of BlueGolf tournament software would be preferred, computer proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite, and knowledge of the Rules of Golf.
This individual would need to have the ability to work weekends and some holidays and possess the ability to lift fifty (50) pounds and work outside in hot conditions. This position will also need to be able to drive a truck with a trailer.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFIT PACKAGE
Our total package for this individual will range between $40,000 - $50,000 based on experience and other factors. At the STPGA, some of our high-level benefits include items like Unlimited PTO, 100% coverage of medical, dental, and long-term disability after 3 months of employment, and a 401K plan after one year of employment with up to 5% matching contribution from the STPGA. In addition to our PTO policy, the STPGA office is closed between the Christmas and New Years Holiday each year.
STPGA Staff Members also have free access at Willow Creek Golf Club and Windrose Golf Club to enjoy the great game of golf. We provide a cell phone and computer to all employees and plenty of golf shirts to last for a lifetime!
When traveling for work, the STPGA provides work trucks for your travels and a company credit card for work-related expenses.
Our goal is to find the right person for the job and will communicate with each candidate in a timely manner after he or she applies on a potential interview or next steps. Our goal is to have someone in place as soon as possible.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.
Job Questions: - Willing to relocate to Houston, TX?
Job Tags
Full time, Internship, Work at office, Immediate start, Relocation, Weekend work, Weekday work,