The Junior Board, comprised of dedicated Lyons Township women's golf team players led by Addison Wanatabe, orchestrated a remarkable fundraiser at Topgolf Naperville for the US Adaptive Golf Alliance (USAGA). This event, aimed at supporting adaptive golf and fostering inclusion for individuals with disabilities, exceeded expectations.

We had a wonderful time at the Chicago Golf Show, presented by the Chicago District Golf Association, last weekend! This event, held in Rosemont, provided a great opportunity to discuss adaptive golf with golfers from all around Chicago. A huge thank you to the CDGA for having us, our booth volunteers, and everyone who stopped by. Take a look at a few photos from the event below.

The Golf Wire, Feb 6, 2024: Charleston, SC: The National Alliance for Accessible Golf (the Alliance) announces the launch of a self-assessment process to guide golf facilities towards recognition by the National Alliance for Accessible Golf as an Accessible Golf Facility.

Arcis Golf, the second largest owner and operator of private, resort and daily fee facilities in the United States, is honored to continue its financial, course and program support of the United States Adaptive Golf Alliance (USAGA) in 2024. This will be the sixth consecutive year of partnership support. Making golf accessible to a broad cross section of audiences has been one of Arcis’ core tenets since its founding nearly a decade ago.

As 2023 comes to a close, we want to take a second to thank all of our participants, coaches and donors for a great year of adaptive golf. In 2023, the USAGA:

Added new member organizations: Golf Association of Philadelphia, I GOT THIS Foundation, Japan Disabled Golf Association, Northern Ohio Golf Association, Operation Homeland Honor and The Cairns Cup.

Provided nearly 5,000 adaptive golf lessons local to the state of Illinois and impacted over 40,000 through our 45 member organizations

Entered 34 competitive events into our USAGA Rankings & Standards

We trained 26 new coaches across the country, allowing us to provide the benefits of adaptive golf to even more veterans and children with special needs.

We continued to provide all adaptive golf clinics at no cost to participants.

Congratulations to our Participant of the Year - Issac Berger, and our Coaches of the Year - Keith Brown, Dale Fester, and Jeff Powers!

BOSTON - December 14, 2023 – Bob Beach, Co-Founder, Chairman and Director of Golf For All (Northeast Accessible Golf Association), is recognized by Special Olympics Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Golf Association and the New England PGA for his life of service enhancing the lives of people with disabilities through the game of golf.

The USAGA is proud to have received a grant through DuPage Foundation’s Community Needs Grant Program (CNGP) to help support adaptive golf in Dupage County. DuPage Foundation awarded more than $600,000 to 46 DuPage County not-for-profit organizations. Thanks to additional donations from DuPage Foundation’s donors and donor-advisors, the Foundation was able to grant $230,000 above its regular Community Needs grant budget.

One of USAGA’s longstanding participant, Issac Ziebel received a bronze medal at the 2023 Illinois Special Olympics! Below are some photos from the event and below is an except from Seaspar Special Recreation Associaiton about Issac’s performance.

We received some amazing photos from the 2nd Annual Palmetto State Adaptive Championship! The photos were taken by Leda Holliday’s parent, Marrin Holliday.

The USAGA is proud to welcome our newest international member, the Japan Disabled Golf Association! They just completed the 28th Japan Open Golf Championship for People with Disabilities. This 36-hole stroke play even started in 1996 and includes around 80 players. Congradulations to Masato Koyamada for winning the championship this year, his 3rd victory! This is the first year the tournament is being included in the USAGA’s adaptive golf tournament rankings.

We are honored to be featured in the accessiBe blog post about Adaptive Fitness! Our website is accessible and WCAG 2.1/ADA compliant through their help. The blue widget at the bottom right corner of our site provides a number of different options adjust the website to make it easier to use for those with web accessibility needs. The USAGA is part of their non-profit partnership program, which partners accessiBe with disability-focused nonprofits to further educate the world about the communities they serve and to bring about more exposure to their impactful activities. The article even features a quote from our very own Jonathan Snyder.

BURR RIDGE September 11, 2023 -- United States Adaptive Golf Alliance (USAGA) has been selected for the 2023 Best of Burr Ridge Award in the Golf club category by the Burr Ridge Award Program.

The Gatorade Equity in Sports Community Grant Program was launched in

Spring 2022 as part of Gatorade’s Equity in Sports Initiative. Gatorade is

committed to helping remove barriers to allow all athletes the opportunity to

play by focusing on three areas:

Great media coverage from the Alley Challenge adaptive golf clinic

1 – Michigan man with Multiple Sclerosis hits first golf shot in 20 years (featuring McLaren Health Care), mLive, Augus 21, 2023

2 – Adaptive golf takes center stage at The Ally Challenge (featuring McLaren Health Care), mLive, August 21, 2023

3 – The Ally Challenge hold second Adaptive Golf Clinic, WNEM, August 21, 2013

4 – NBC coverage of the Clinic

5 - Lasco Press coverage of the Clinic

In honor of #nationalgolfmonth The U.S. Adaptive Golf Alliance invites you to contribute to help support the physical and cognitive needs of veterans, first responders, children with special needs, and individuals with disabilities through their inclusion in adaptive golf. In 2022, USAGA provided over 6,200 adaptive golf lessons. We also entered 29 competitive events provided by our member organizations into our USAGA Rankings. We are on pace to exceed last year’s impact in 2023, but need your support to achieve our goals.

With your donation, we can offer programs, clinics, special equipment, and tournaments that provide adaptive golfers the tools to empower themselves: https://www.usaga.org/donate-to-usaga

The Inaugural Ohio Adaptive Open took place this month with a talented field of adaptive golfers. See a few photos from Arm Impairment - Men’s winner (and USAGA Executive Director) Jonathan Snyder. For a few list of winners, head over to the Northern Ohio Golf Association website: WINNERS.

GAIN is the pathway to Golf Inclusion Monthly™, resources, program listings, and a network of golfers, adaptive golf experts, industry leaders and more working to increase the participation of individuals with disabilities in the game of golf!

Our Community is Your Community. GAIN is a free communications forum provided to foster the growth of a stronger national network of information, education and resources to serve the community of golfers with disabilities and those that lead and support these efforts.

A great 4 day NubAbility Athletics sports camp, NubAbility staff are champions. Hats off to our U.S. Adaptive Golf Alliance coaches for bringing the freedom and joy that comes with the game of golf to these wonderful campers. It's an honor to be a part of this phenomenal event.

Thank you to everyone who came to our 10th Annual Golf Outing, at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club on June 9th, 2023. The outing was so popular this year we had to shut down reservations early. We appreciate all who came and supported adaptive golf on this beautiful day on the course. Below are just some of the great pictures from the event and we look forward to you joining us next year!

The U.S. Adaptive Golf Alliance partnered with Challenged Athletes Foundation and were hosted by The Olympic Club in Northern California to provide adaptive athletes with the opportunity to enjoy the game of golf in May 2023. This 2nd annual event was a resounding success, bringing together adaptive golf instructors from USAGA with CAF staff and volunteers to share the joys of golf with the local community. A huge thank you to Challenged Athletes Foundation and The Olympic club in their efforts to grow adaptive golf.