Ballantyne Country Club Receives Prestigious Award for Member Experience

Ballantyne Country Club announced today that it has been awarded the distinguished Gold Club of the World award, as determined by the annual Distinguished Clubs of the World award program conducted by BoardRoom magazine, one of the most respected trade publications serving private clubs.

"We'd like to congratulate Ballantyne Country Club for earning Distinguished Gold Club status," said John Fornaro, Publisher of BoardRoom magazine, "Special recognition also goes out to Ballantyne Country Club's General Manger, Jill Philmon, as well as the club's board of directors, its department heads, and entire staff for their efforts in providing an excellent member experience."

For fine private clubs that operate at the highest standards, BoardRoom magazine's Distinguished Clubs award program uses a club-specific rating system that recognizes the club, its management, and its staff based on a proprietary criteria and evaluation process that distills and measures a club's Member Experience. As such, the rating system used by Distinguished Clubs is different from any that has come before, and with it, the private club industry now has the means to identify the top private clubs based on the most important aspect: Member Experience.

As defined by Distinguished Clubs, "Member Experience" is that special combination of "Qualities" that a private club provides its members. It is not just the quality of service, or of the facilities, or of the product provided, it is also the quality of the staff and of the management, as well as the overall club governance they deliver. The most important quality, however, is the quality of the intangible. While difficult to measure, the latter is comprised of those magic moments experienced, the members befriended, the memorable events and famous tournaments attended, as well as the club traditions, history, and heritage proudly recognized.

Posted: May 9, 2014 About The Distinguished Clubs of the World Award Program - Boardroom magazine developed the Distinguished Clubs of the World award program to recognize and share – with the private club industry as a whole – what it is that Distinguished Clubs do differently, and to do so with the specific goal of improving the Member Experience at every private club, and thereby helping to preserve the institution of private clubs for many future generations.