About

Why I started this.

Networking Golf started with an observation its founder, Utah entrepreneur Josh Zieglowsky, couldn't shake: looking back across years of deals — real estate, services, partnerships — the ones that went best almost always had a golf cart somewhere in the story. Not because golf impresses anyone, but because two and a half hours outside with someone tells you more than twenty coffee meetings.

Meanwhile, most "networking" still happens in hotel ballrooms: name tags, elevator pitches, a stack of business cards that goes straight into a drawer. We built the alternative we wanted to attend.

What we run

A 9-hole business networking league on real courses across Northern Utah. Members are drawn into a new foursome every round, so a season quietly becomes fifty owner-level conversations. Two divisions keep it local:

• The North — Cache & Box Elder counties: Logan, Smithfield, Wellsville, Brigham City, Tremonton.
• The South — Davis, Weber & Morgan counties: Kaysville, Layton, North Salt Lake, Ogden, Eden, Morgan.

Utah is the first flag on the map, not the last. Expansion divisions launch where the waitlist gets loudest.

Who it's for

Most of the business networking worth having happens at private clubs — and most private clubs near us have a waiting list measured in years and an initiation fee measured in tens of thousands. That's a fine deal if you want a club. It's an absurd one if what you actually want is to meet people.

So we built the other thing: the networking of a club, on public courses, with no waiting list. Members tend to be one of three people — someone who'd join a club but can't get in, someone who's seen the initiation fee and decided against it, or someone who already golfs most weeks and is tired of doing it with nobody worth knowing.

The member directory is never public. It exists so the people who paid to be in the league can find each other — not so anyone can browse a list of local owners from the outside.

Running your own market

The league is designed to be handed to local people. A local champion picks their market and the public courses they'd want to play; our office calls the courses, books the tee-time blocks, collects payment in advance, draws the pairings and sends the reminders. If you've ever tried to run a standing weekly group yourself, you already know which of those jobs is the one that kills it.

Who runs it

Josh Zieglowsky — founder. Sets the league's direction, negotiates course partnerships, loses golf balls at a founder's pace. More about Josh at meetjoshz.com.

Mikaela — league coordinator. Owns the tee sheet: scheduling, pairings, standings, and the weekly texts that tell you where to be. If the league feels effortless, that's her doing.