Position Title: Director of Player Development
Reports To: CEO
Location: Remote
Salary: The APGA pays a competitive salary based on experience
Organization Overview
The APGA is a 14-year-old nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring greater diversity to the game of golf. The organization with a $2.3 million budget sponsors 18 tournaments with over a million dollars in prize and bonus money. To ensure that players have the tools to reach the highest levels of golf, the APGA has a Player Development Program that provides equipment, top-level coaching, entry fees for PGA TOUR Qualifying and money for club membership for their top young players. Through the APGA Foundation, the organization has introduced the game of golf to over 3,000 young people and has provided those young people with more than $200,000 in scholarships.
Overview of Responsibilities
The Director of Player Development is a person who has played golf at the professional level. His or her responsibilities will include:
- Manage the organization’s Player Development Program
- Identify trends and technology that will improve players performance
- Evaluate players potential to make it to the PGA TOUR
- Be the liaison between APGA Tour players and APGA Tournament Operations and the APGA Board
- Manage the APGA Players Council
- Make sure players adhere to the APGA Code of Conduct
- Attend APGA Tournaments
- Assist when needed with APGA tournament operations
- Be well-versed with Full Swing and other golf launch monitors
- Be able to develop reports on players progress for the APGA board and CEO
- Meet regularly with players’ coaches and athletic trainers
- Other projects as assigned
Qualifications
- B.A. or B.S. in sports management or administration, education, business, sports psychology or other related field
- 10 years experience in player development, playing professional golf, or coaching elite players
- Expertise in golf required
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
- Collaborator and relationship builder
- Strategic thinker
- Self-motivated and a motivator
Interested applications send a resume to Ken Bentley at kwbgolfer@yahoo.com
