Awards Procedure and Process

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Committee

The Awards Selection Committee chairman will evaluate the nominations and choose a winner for the recognized awards. 

Awards Recognized

• Club Professional of the Year
• Executive Professional of the Year 
• Class 'A' Professional of the Year
• Teacher of the Year
• Retailer of the Year
• Junior Leader of the Year
• Coach of the Year
• Apprentice Professional of the Year 
• Sales Rep of the Year

Awards Credentials

• Club Professional of the Year
• Executive Professional of the Year 
• Class 'A' Professional of the Year
• Teacher of the Year
• Retailer of the Year
• Junior Leader of the Year
• Coach of the Year
• Apprentice Professional of the Year 
• Sales Rep of the Year

The Nomination Process 

Based on the following procedures: 

• Nominations for all awards will be accepted until Monday, September 16th at 5PM.
• Clear criteria for all awards are distributed to the membership along with nomination forms.
• No write-up is required.
• Individual nominations for all awards are accepted from any PGA Professional (Class 'A' or Apprentice Professional) in the Atlantic Zone. Self-nominations are not only accepted but encouraged. 
• All nominations received are reviewed to ensure that they are eligible.
• All nominees are contacted to confirm that they will allow their name to stand for the award.
• If they agree, they will be asked to complete a questionnaire with specific questions pertinent to the appropriate award. The information will be required by a specific date to be eligible for the award. 
• A maximum of three finalists will be announced for each category. 

Final Selection

Based on the following procedure:

• Questionnaire information will be forwarded to the individual Award Evaluators for independent evaluation.
• The criteria associated with each award will be considered in selecting the winners. 
• A cross-selection of our membership will serve as Evaluators and will independently score each of the appropriate categories. The process is to rank the nominees in each category
  • i.e., if there are five nominees for Professional the Year, then you would rank your first choice one and your last choice as five
• Each evaluator rankings are sent to the Zone Office to be tallied with the winner being the lowest total in each category. The high score for each nominee will be discarded. 
• A maximum of three finalists will be announced for each category. 
• The winner remains confidential to be announced at the Awards Gala. 

Please Advise

• To be considered for a Zone Award, all PGA of Canada Atlantic Award nominees will be required to complete the background check at your cost. If you have done so in the past and it is still current, it is not necessary to do this again. 

Communication

• The three finalist will be announced on social media by the Zone Office.
• The winner remains confidential to be announced at the Awards Gala.
• PGA of Atlantic winners are automatically put forward for the National Award through the PGA of Canada Award Program.