Dear golf course owners and managers,
François Roy, Assistant Executive Director of the Québec Golf Federation (Golf Québec), was elected President of the Standing Committee of the Québec golf industry. As such, he will succeed Jean-Pierre Beaulieu, Executive Director of Golf Québec (2021) and Dominic Racine, Executive Director of the PGA of Québec (2020), who successively held this role in the past two years.
"I would like to thank Jean-Pierre and Dominic, who have successfully taken turns in leading the work accomplished by the stakeholders of the Standing Committee over the past two years, which have been very challenging, to say the least. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the golf industry in Québec benefited from an increased interest in the practice of golf and accessibility to courses. This has resulted in two seasons of strong growth in the number of golf rounds that were played. In the hope that the pandemic will soon be behind us, the Standing Committee will continue to inform and guide golf establishments in the implementation of safety measures issued by the government for the next season. We will also be looking at other industry issues and I will continue to follow up on these questions with the same thoroughness as my predecessors did," says François Roy.
Update – Covid-19
The Standing Committee remains actively involved on your behalf and on the lookout for prevention measures related to the pandemic. We remain in constant communication with government authorities to minimize the impact of these measures on the golf industry.
For the time being, we are pursuing our daily efforts to get the public health authorities to recognize indoor golf centres as sports facilities instead of recreational facilities, as is currently the case. Discussions to this effect are underway with the relevant government departments. We are still waiting for developments.
Over the next few weeks, we will also be keeping an eye out for government guidelines to be implemented in preparation for the opening of courses for the next season. We will communicate any developments as quickly as possible when they are announced by the government.
Although the new measures maintain the status quo for indoor centres at the moment, the situation is constantly changing. Let us remain flexible, but above all responsible.
ABOUT THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE QUÉBEC GOLF INDUSTRY - The Standing Committee of the Québec golf industry is made up of the Association des clubs de golf du Québec (ACGQ), the National Golf Course Owners Association of Canada - Québec Section (NGCOA), the Québec Golf Superintendents Association (QGSA), the PGA of Québec, and the Québec Golf Federation. The golf industry in the province is made up of more than 350 golf course operators and establishments, 7.65 million played golf rounds, and over 1,084,000 golfers who generate 400 million dollars in revenue. Economically, golf contributes more than $2.48 billion to Québec’s gross domestic product and generates approximately 52,000 jobs.
