Golf And Talk presents
Be ready for where golf can take you.
Corporate Golf Ready is professional and business development for ambitious women ready to build relationships, influence and opportunity — on the course and beyond it.
Our Mission
To get more women playing golf, building powerful relationships and creating opportunities for themselves and other women.
Not fewer men playing. More women in the fourball (group of four golfers).
Who Corporate Golf Ready (CGR) is for
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:
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.
Why do CGR?
Sometimes it's the golf. Sometimes it has nothing to do with golf at all. Either way, it makes decisions that a capable woman would never make on her own behalf.
CGR isn't about telling women they lack confidence. It's about helping women stop allowing insecurity to make the decision.
What are the benefits in play
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.
And sometimes it's just a very good day with people you like. That counts too.
How does it work
The flagship program runs across one month, combining professional and business development mentoring, relationships and real time on the course. Women learn to stay in the game, deal with setbacks, navigate career challenges, build self-trust and develop collaborative professional relationships, on and off the course. This isn't about producing perfect golfers. It's about becoming Golf Ready.
Working lunch + 9 holes
A facilitated lunch reframes golf as a professional and business strategy: relationships, opportunity, conversation, composure and what becomes possible when you are comfortable being there. Then take the conversation onto the course.
This is where golf stops being something to learn and starts being an environment for relationships, conversation and opportunity.
9 holes + clubhouse drink
Learn by doing: etiquette, pace, the unwritten rules, recovering from the bad shot and becoming relaxed enough to focus on the people you're playing with. We finish in the clubhouse because corporate golf doesn't always end with the final putt.
Not technical swing coaching. Just enough comfort with the environment that the golf no longer stops you participating.
9 holes + celebratory drink
Less instruction. More ownership. Navigate the course, manage the game, have the conversations and put it all together. Then we celebrate: you're Corporate Golf Ready.
Take your place. Invite the client. Ask for the introduction. Host the round. Put yourself forward.
On the course
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.
Long term benefits
The three 9-hole experiences are the structure. These are the shifts that make it worth doing.
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.
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.
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.
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
The spirit of the course continues after CGR. When you need a hand, ask. When you know the answer, help another woman. Got a spare place? Invite someone. Got an opportunity? Share it.
The more women who become Golf Ready, the easier it becomes for the next woman to get in the game.
"I've got one place left in a fourball next Thursday. Any CGR women free?"
That's the Alumni
Don't just build your network. Become part of someone else's.
The values that define the standard of play, on and off the course. Eight rules, no exceptions.
If you know something useful, share it.
Your handicap or job title doesn't determine your value in the group.
Another woman's opportunity doesn't take yours away.
Know two women who need to know each other? Connect them.
If a woman is right for an opportunity, put her forward.
Go. Ask. Play. Have a crack.
A spare place is an opportunity to widen the circle.
Professional growth doesn't have to happen in a conference room.
About Evonne
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
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.
For organisations
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
One month. Three 9-hole experiences. A working lunch that reframes golf as a business strategy, a round focused on course confidence and etiquette, then a round where you take the lead. Conversation, real play and a proper drink at the end.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You don't need perfect golf, a low handicap or a clever answer. Just tell us where you're at.
Curious about the program first? See the three experiences.
