Four women of different ages, skin tones, hairstyles and body shapes walking a golf course together

Golf And Talk presents

Corporate Golf Ready.

Be ready for where golf can take you.

Corporate Golf Ready is leadership and business development for ambitious women ready to use golf to strengthen their personal brand, build influential relationships and create opportunities on the course and beyond it.

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Our Mission

To get more women playing golf, building powerful relationships and creating opportunities for themselves and other women.

500,000 women Corporate Golf Ready.

50% women at corporate golf days.

Not fewer men playing. More women in the fourball (group of four golfers).

Who Corporate Golf Ready (CGR) is for

Ambitious women ready to use golf to strengthen their personal brand, build influential relationships and create opportunities.

She's not an age, a job title or an income bracket. She might be golf obsessed, or simply interested in where golf could take her professionally. What matters is that she's capable, curious and has somewhere she wants to go. She might be:

An executive or senior leader

An emerging leader

A founder or business owner

A lawyer, adviser, consultant or accountant

In sales or business development

Building a client book

Moving towards partnership

Changing direction professionally

And her golf can be anywhere. Just started. Having lessons. Playing socially. Off a handicap. Already good. CGR isn't about teaching a basic swing. It's about being ready to play, connect, host and create the next opportunity, on the course and beyond it.

Four women spanning different ages and body shapes walking a fairway together

Why do CGR?

Insecurity takes capable women out of the game. So does being overlooked.

Sometimes a woman isn't invited.

Sometimes she doesn't know the corporate golf day is happening.

And sometimes the invitation arrives but feeling exposed, inexperienced or out of place makes the decision for her.

"I just play socially.""I'm not good enough for a corporate day.""I don't want to hold everyone up.""I don't know the rules or where to stand.""Everyone else will know what they're doing.""Maybe I'll be ready next time."

When she steps away, she misses more than a round of golf.

She misses hours alongside clients, senior leaders and decision-makers. The conversations, relationships and visibility that can influence what happens next.

Corporate Golf Ready changes what happens before the next invitation.

Women learn what to expect, become comfortable enough to participate and realise they don't need brilliant golf to belong.

They become ready to put their hand up, say yes, ask for a place, invite a client, host a round — and bring another woman with them.

CGR isn't about telling women they lack confidence. It is about ensuring golf is never the reason a capable woman misses the conversation.

More women on the tee. In the conversation. Front of mind.

A relaxed group sharing drinks on a clubhouse terrace after a round

What are the benefits in play

Four hours. No agenda. Enormous advantage.

We're not promising golf causes professional success. We're saying relationships, visibility, introductions and being in the right environments matter — and golf creates an unusual amount of time for those relationships to develop.

A round becomes a friendship.
A friendship becomes an introduction.
An introduction becomes a client.
A conversation becomes an idea, a role, a board, a referral.

And sometimes it's just a very good day with people you like. That counts too.

How does it work

One month. Three experiences.

The flagship program runs across one month, combining leadership and business development, powerful relationships and practical golf experience.

Women learn to use golf as professional infrastructure to strengthen their personal brand, expand their influence, build relationships and create opportunities without waiting until their game is perfect.

This isn't about producing perfect golfers. It's about becoming Corporate Golf Ready.

Come for the golf. Leave with relationships that could change where it takes you.

See golf differently

Breakfast or lunch + session on the green

A facilitated business conversation reframes golf as a professional advantage.

Explore what you bring, what you want to be known for and how golf can strengthen your profile, relationships and opportunities.

Meet the women in your cohort. Discover what they do. Identify where introductions, referrals and collaborations could begin.

Then take the conversation to the putting green.

This is where golf stops being something you simply play and starts becoming something you can use.

Get ready

A practical golf experience

Become ready for the environment, not perfect at the game.

With support from a PGA Professional and CGR Golf Guides, build the practical understanding to participate comfortably alongside different golf abilities.

Newer golfers become familiar with the environment. Social golfers become ready to accept more invitations. Experienced golfers build valuable relationships and explore how to use their golf more intentionally.

Leave knowing what to expect, how to participate and where you want to take your golf next.

Take the shot

Supported nine holes + clubhouse connection

Put it all into practice in a realistic, mixed-ability fourball.

Navigate the course. Recover after the bad shot. Contribute to the group. Talk about what you do. Get curious about the women beside you.

The goal isn't to prove that you are a brilliant golfer.

It is to become comfortable enough with the golf to focus on the people, relationships and opportunities around you.

Take your place. Invite the client. Ask for the introduction. Host the round. Put yourself forward.

On the course

You won't figure it out alone.

Your Golf Guide is there on course to help with the things that can make golf feel intimidating — what to do, where to go, when to play, when to pick up and how to keep things moving.

Ask questions. Learn as you play. Get comfortable out there.

At the end: you're Corporate Golf Ready.

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Long term benefits

You'll be ready.

The three experiences are the structure. These are the shifts that make it worth doing.

Say yes.

Know what to expect at a corporate golf day and feel comfortable managing yourself around the course — so you can focus less on your golf and more on the people, conversations and fun.

Have women to call.

Complete CGR and join the CGR Alumni — a growing pool of women ready to play. Need a player? Have a spare spot? Want to get a round going? Shout out to the group.

Create the invitation.

Don't always wait to be asked. Invite the client. Ask the senior leader. Bring a colleague. Use golf to spend time with people you want to know.

Play without the guilt.

A weekday round can be time with clients, leaders and people who matter to your career or business. Golf can be fun and still be good for your career or business.

Staying connected

CGR Women

The private professional networking community for ambitious women using golf strategically.

Completing Corporate Golf Ready makes you eligible to join CGR Women as a separate paid membership.

Create a professional profile, showcase your business or expertise and build relationships with women across different industries, organisations and levels of golf experience.

Inside CGR Women

Share places at corporate and charity golf days

Find women to complete a fourball (group of four golfers)

Organise rounds

Showcase your business and expertise

Promote professional and commercial opportunities

Make introductions and referrals

Discover and support member businesses

Build your network across different industries

Recommend other women

Celebrate the golf, career and business wins

Host clients and bring another woman with you

Share what happened after the round

“I've got one place left in a fourball next Thursday. Which CGR Women are free?”

“I played alongside X from Y company. We're meeting next week to continue the conversation.”

“I know exactly the woman you should speak to. Let me introduce you.”

CGR Women isn't another open networking group. It is a values-led community where women use golf to build relationships, create opportunities and open doors for one another.

Members understand the standard

Back yourself. Back other women. Take your place. Take the shot.

Don't just build your network. Become part of someone else's.

CGR Women founding membership opening soon

Our culture

The values that define the standard of play, on and off the course. Eight rules, no exceptions.

No gatekeeping

If you know something useful, share it.

No pecking order

Your handicap or job title doesn't determine your value in the group.

No scarcity

Another woman's opportunity doesn't take yours away.

Make the introduction

Know two women who need to know each other? Connect them.

Say her name

If a woman is right for an opportunity, put her forward.

Don't let insecurity make the decision

Go. Ask. Play. Have a crack.

Bring another woman into the fourball

A spare place is an opportunity to widen the circle.

Have some bloody fun

Professional growth doesn't have to happen in a conference room.

Evonne Englezos, founder of Golf And Talk, smiling while seated on a golf course

About Evonne

Before you add another qualification, consider whether golf might give you the edge.

I'm Evonne Englezos, founder of Golf And Talk and creator of Corporate Golf Ready.

I played competitive golf and represented NSW as a teenager — then spent 19 years away from the game while building a career in business and working with executives and business owners. Now I'm back. And I wish it hadn't taken me this long.

I've seen too many capable women walk away from opportunities because they didn't feel "good enough" at golf. I've been derailed and overlooked too — and I wish someone had told me earlier:

Pick up the clubs. Get on the fairway. Be seen. Build the relationships.

That's why I created Corporate Golf Ready.

Book Evonne to speak

Available for conferences, leadership programs and organisational events.

If you're planning a conference, leadership summit, development workshop, client event or International Women's Day program, Evonne speaks on confidence, visibility, relationships and using golf as a professional and business development advantage — as a keynote, a panel contribution, a workshop, or paired with an on-course experience for your group.

Enquire about speaking

A mixed group of professionals talking on the putting green at a corporate golf day

For organisations

Give the women in your organisation the Golf Edge.

When more women can build relationships, represent the business and create opportunity on the course, your whole organisation gains an advantage. CGR adds professional and business development mentoring, real on-course experience and commercial connection to the leadership and client-development work you already do — and helps women in your talent pipeline feel confident to apply for senior positions.

Bring CGR to our organisation

Also for women's executive groups, leadership networks, alumni communities and professional associations. Rather than another lunch or panel — bring your fourball (group of four golfers).

The timing

Women are coming to golf. CGR helps them stay in the game.

The appetite is already there. The opportunity is to turn that interest into confidence on the course, lasting relationships and professional possibility.

60%

of new golfers over the previous two years were women. Women are not waiting to be convinced to try the game.

Up to 125%

more likely to hold a board seat. A Singapore study found this association among women golfers at large or male-dominated listed firms.

91%

of women golfers surveyed agreed that connections made through golf can carry into workplace relationships.

Sources: Golf Australia, 2024/25 Golf Participation Report and March 2026 release (60%); Agarwal, Qian, Reeb & Sing, American Economic Review, 2016 (up to 125%); Wellesley Centers for Women, Women and Golf: Links to Business Success, 2019 (91%). The 60% figure covers on-course and off-course play. The board finding is an association in one Singapore-based study, not proof that golf caused the outcome.

FAQs

Do I need to be good at golf?+

No. Corporate Golf Ready isn't about producing perfect golfers. Women join having just started, having lessons, playing socially, or playing off a handicap. What matters is that you're willing to get on the course.

Do I need to bring clubs?+

Yes, currently. Share with a friend, or borrow some clubs. We encourage walking the course, but if for any reason you need to hire a cart, this is done directly with the pro-shop at the course we will attend.

Is this golf coaching?+

No. There's no technical swing work here. This is professional and business development, on-course experience and relationship development — with golf as the vehicle. Keep your coach; we'll get you golf ready.

What actually happens across the program?+

One month. Three experiences. A facilitated business conversation over breakfast or lunch that takes you onto the green, a practical golf experience supported by a PGA Professional and our Golf Guides, then a supported round in a mixed-ability fourball. Conversation, real play and a proper drink at the end.

I'm a confident golfer but not so confident professionally. Is this for me?+

Absolutely. Plenty of women are comfortable on a course and less comfortable putting themselves forward. The professional and business development work applies to both sides of that.

What happens after the program?+

You join the CGR Alumni — a growing network of women ready to play, connect and bring other women into the fourball (group of four golfers). Spare places, introductions, rounds and opportunities get shared there.

Can my organisation pay for my place?+

Often, yes. Many organisations already fund leadership, client-development and professional-development programs. Tell us on the form and we'll help you make the case — or talk to your organisation directly.

Is this a women-versus-men thing?+

Not remotely. The goal isn't fewer men playing. It's more women in the fourball (group of four golfers), comfortable in an environment where relationships and opportunities are already being built.

Stay in the game. Take the shot.

You don't need perfect golf, a low handicap or a clever answer. Just tell us where you're at.

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Curious about the program first? See the three experiences.