The Girls Performance Initiative Mission:
- Conduct a regional amateur women’s competition, the Prairie Invitational, which allows Kansas City area residents and junior golfers to gauge their abilities against the area’s best players.
- To offer local development and playing opportunities for the area’s best junior players.
- We offer local and national grants/scholarships for competition to remove barriers to competition for girls in our region.
- To provide grants to high school teams and organizations working to promote and grow girls golf in Kansas City and Kansas.
“The new Bushnell rangefinders will better help our girls understand their distances off the tee, strategize their approach shots, and become more cerebral about the game of golf. They also were able to replace some of our old GPS units that the program has had for 5+ years. The girls are excited to have a new golf tool that is specifically for them; not shared with the boys’ program.”
-Trevor Ewert, Chanute High School, 2024 Recipient
Apply for a Grant or Scholarship
Grants and Scholarships are available for:
- Junior tour memberships/event fees
- Major championship event fees (Women’s Match Play, Women’s Am, The Prairie if invited, Kansas Junior Am, KC Junior, KC Girls Match Play, Kansas Girls Match Play, PGA Jr Qualifier, Optimist Jr Qualifier)
- Travel to national championships or events like LPGA Leadership Academies
- High schools creating new girls golf teams or with golf teams to help purchase equipment/uniforms
- Any program in need that benefits girls golf
Applications for grants can be submitted here. Applications should be sent by October 1 each year.