WARRNAMBOOL Golf Club will temporarily alter its membership for 2021 as it looks to align with the objectives of its strategic plan.
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Memberships will revert to a one-off nine-month season from January to line it up with the club's financial year, which runs from the start of October to the end of September.
WGC manager Ashlee Scott said now was the perfect time adjust the membership length as the club recorded a 13 per cent increase, including having 1000 members for the first time in over a decade.
The new annual membership season will recommence from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022.
There is a number of key initiatives the club is looking to achieve with the membership change. It hopes to align its membership season to its financial year.
It is reviewing and streamlining membership classes to improve operational efficiencies, simplifying the joining process and meeting the needs of members to increase product knowledge and confidence.
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It also wants to remove any barriers for participation, grow engagement - in particular for female and junior golfers - and ensure appropriate benefits are delivered to its members.
Scott said the membership change, which is the first initiative the club will look to implement at the beginning of 2021, is aimed at assisting both the club and its members.
"From a club point of view it will assist us immensely with financial planning and also assist us by not starting in peak time but starting at the start of spring and leading up to summer," she said.
"We're also trying to encourage members to renew in the lead up to the summer period.
"It also coincides with the end of the winter sports and encourages those who might normally renew memberships going into summer when those are coming to an end, golf is starting, the weather is nicer and people are getting out and about."
Scott said it was a fantastic moment for the club to record 1000 members again. Warrnambool resident Jason Rudolph was the 1000th member.
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Sean Hardeman
I'm a sports journalist for the Warrnambool Standard who covers a number of different sports across the south-west of Victoria. I enjoy watching cycling, surfing, football, soccer and Formula 1.
I'm a sports journalist for the Warrnambool Standard who covers a number of different sports across the south-west of Victoria. I enjoy watching cycling, surfing, football, soccer and Formula 1.
