Certified Partner Program 2025
About Certified Partner Program
Join the Golf Club Benchmarks Certified Partner Program and unlock new opportunities to elevate your business in the golf industry. Our program offers comprehensive training and certification for your staff enhancing their financial and analytical expertise to deliver greater value to your clients.
PARTNERS
Our Certified Partners
We proudly work with a network of Certified Partners who share our vision of strengthening the golf industry through innovation, collaboration, and data-driven strategies. These partners bring valuable expertise and a commitment to helping clubs achieve measurable improvements in performance, efficiency, and growth. By working together, we create opportunities that benefit not only individual clubs but the entire golf community.
National Golf Course Owners Association - Leading the Business of Golf
National Golf Foundation - The leader in golf research, consulting, and education
The world’s largest golf and golf-related hospitality management company
One of America’s most trusted operators of golf courses, country clubs and resorts
Growth Strategies for the Course and the Clubhouse
The Nation's Leader In Capital Reserve Studies
Certified Partner Program Highlights
Creates 3rd party objectivity and credibility for consultants using GolfClubBenchmarks.com data and metrics
Increase your consulting staff financial and analytics skillset to further enhance your client value
Create new business opportunities together, targeting self-managed golf courses. Using the data in our “Best-in-Class Report Card ™” to drive services and course improvements.
Limited introductory invitation to participate as a founding partner in our Certified Partner Program and inaugural Certified Partner Advisory Board in 2025
Summary of Certified Partner Program Benefits
Increased Sales and Revenue
- Sell and/or integrate our software service into your service offerings, generating additional revenue streams, including a software margin payback from Greenlight Advisors. Expand your portfolio with new products and services that appeal to your existing and new customers and maintain or increase your fees while helping them grow and improve their business even faster.
Enhanced Brand Recognition
- Being associated with an innovative software brand can enhance your reputation and market positioning.
- Create a branded portal site for management company Benchmark Averages and Reports (requires a minimum course participation level)
Innovation and Product Improvement
- Innovate new products and offerings using golfcoursebenchmarking.com as your course-specific content engine.
Senior Marketing Collaboration
- Participate in one speaking engagement annually at your Annual Conference or Customer Event (T&E expenses will be reimbursed by partner)
- Annual planning session in Q4 to plan the next year’s collaborative activities.
- Co-marketing campaigns (1) includes one 30-min co-promoted webcast (20min skills content from GLA, 10min business/marketing content from you and (2) includes three 1-hour complimentary golf operations assessments using golfclubenchmarks.com data and analytics.
CERTIFIED PARTNER PROGRAM - 2025
Q-School and Professional Certifications
Train your staff to use GolfClubBenchmarks.com reports and metrics. Further enhance your consulting staff skillset
Q-School Certification
Requires 5 subscribing courses per year or equal subscription fees
$
29
/ Month
- Two 1-hour group sessions.
- Education to read and diagnose reports.
- What are the data fields and what do they mean.
- Group review and discussion of correct answers.
- Invitation to consultants-only feature/analysis update webcasts
- 15% rebate on each golfclubenchmarks.com subscription
- How to read the reports and diagnose the course’s situation.
- Diagnostic training - how to determine what the improvement opportunities are.
- Hands-on, case-based training: use a sample benchmark report with real (redacted) data to build and assess diagnostic skills.
- Individual 60-minute review of each student’s results.
Professional Certification
Requires 10 subscribing courses per year or equal subscription fees
$
29
/ Month
- Two 1-hour group sessions.
- Education to read and diagnose reports.
- What are the data fields and what do they mean.
- Group review and discussion of correct answers.
- Invitation to consultants-only feature/analysis update webcasts
- 30% rebate on each golfclubenchmarks.com subscription
- How to read the reports and diagnose the course’s situation.
- Diagnostic training - how to determine what the improvement opportunities are.
- Hands-on, case-based training: use a sample benchmark report with real (redacted) data to build and assess diagnostic skills.
- Individual 60-minute review of each student’s results.
Both Q-School and Professional Certifications: Certified Partners agree to:
- Participate in annual partnership planning in Q4 of the previous year.
- Keep one (Q-School) or two (Professional) certified consultant(s) on staff always. If one leaves, the partner has 3 months to have another consultant certified.
- Optional: Join our limited inaugural Certified Partner Advisory Board in 2025
