Vortex Weather Insurance

Don’t Let Rain Slice Into Your Event’s Revenue

Vortex Weather Insurance partners with Florida PGA Sections

Since 2008, Vortex Weather Insurance a weather risk insurance agency, has offered a variety of weather insurance products for outdoor events such as fairs, festivals and concerts – and now there are product offerings specifically for golf events. With the recent release of RainIQ™ (Rain Instant Quote), an online pricing portal, Vortex Weather Insurance is able to provide the golf industry with instant and affordable hourly rain insurance quotes for Tour events, Pro-Ams, amateur tournaments, charity fund raisers, corporate outings and more.

Bad weather is bad business for golf. To that end, Vortex Weather is pleased to announce its new partnership agreement for 2021 with the North Florida PGA Section and the renewal of its current partnership with the South Florida PGA Section.

Vortex Insurance representatives will have the opportunity to present

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several educational webinars to each section to discuss the benefits of insuring golf events and the new, innovative and user-friendly RainIQ portal. Representatives will be attending various section events, speaking to groups at different meeting sites and playing at section outings.

In addition, Vortex has agreed to be a supporting partner of the 2021 Pro-Assistant, May 26-27, at Naples National and TPC Treviso Bay.

“Vortex Weather Insurance is excited and proud to partner again with the South Florida PGA Section, while adding a new partner in 2021, the North Florida PGA Section,” said Eric Anderson, Vortex Weather Insurance Producer. “These Sections will help us expand our reach to help club professionals protect their event revenue from the rain.”

By taking advantage of recent advancements made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Vortex Weather Insurance products, offered via RainIQ, utilize localized-gridded weather data. Rainfall is calculated within a 2.5 mile-square box that includes the actual insured location. This innovation by Vortex allows for higher precision and accuracy – as compared to using an existing weather station as a measurement point that may be ten or even twenty miles away.

RainIQ makes understanding weather insurance and its benefits simple and easy. The portal can customize a club professional’s tour-

nament needs providing free, nament needs providing free, flexible and local information flexible and local information and policy costs. and policy costs.

Some of the benefits of Some of the benefits of RainIQ include:RainIQ include: • Affordable quotes available in • Affordable quotes available in minutes minutes • No application necessary to • No application necessary to get a quote get a quote • Requires minimal data input • Requires minimal data input • Customizes a policy based on • Customizes a policy based on your budget your budget • Coverage for pre-defined • Coverage for pre-defined hourly periods using targeted hourly periods using targeted local data local data • Free and easy to use • Free and easy to use

“We were very fortunate “We were very fortunate to recently work with Vortex to recently work with Vortex for one of our major events,” for one of our major events,” commented Geoff Lofstead, Executive commented Geoff Lofstead, Executive Director, South Florida PGA. “The serDirector, South Florida PGA. “The service was easy to use and set up and vice was easy to use and set up and provided us with the needed peace of provided us with the needed peace of mind in case the event was impacted mind in case the event was impacted due to rain.” due to rain.”

Golf is an unpredictable sport, Golf is an unpredictable sport, and so is the weather. Vortex offers and so is the weather. Vortex offers insurance products nationwide and insurance products nationwide and can help protect your golf event from can help protect your golf event from weather risk and lost revenue any day weather risk and lost revenue any day or any time. or any time.

For more information or to obtain For more information or to obtain a quote, contact Eric Anderson, a quote, contact Eric Anderson, 203-550-6150, eanderson@guaran203-550-6150, eanderson@guaranteedweather.com. teedweather.com.