Membership Levels

Individuals

The CGA is an association of member clubs. Individual members of CGA member clubs receive all the benefits and services of the CGA when applicable.  Join the CGA

Golf Clubs

Regular Membership
Regular membership is open to any organized golf club in North Carolina or South Carolina which operates regularly at a golf course. It must be a permanent club composed of at least 25 individual dues-paying members who are admitted by a committee chosen by members. It does not have to be incorporated nor does it have to control the course at which it plays. Not more than one CGA member club may operate at any one golf course.

CGA member clubs pay annual dues of $50. Membership entitles the club to agronomy services (plus expenses), handicap services, course measuring and slope rating services, discounted group property, casualty and worker's compensation insurance programs created specifically for member clubs, and a tournament schedule that ranges from one-day handicap events to championship tournaments designed to recognize the best golfers in North and South Carolina.

Affiliate Membership
Affiliate membership is open to any organized group in North Carolina or South Carolina, which does not operate regularly at a regulation golf course. It must be a permanent club composed of at least 10 individual dues-paying members who are admitted by a committee chosen by members. The club manages its own affairs through officers and committees whom they select. The club must form a handicap committee to ensure that the USGA Handicap System requirements are being followed properly. The club must submit a roster of club members with addresses upon acceptance with annual updates if membership is renewed and allow its members a reasonable and regular opportunity to play with each other. The club pays and annual due of $50.

Associate Membership
Associate membership is open to any golf course in North or South Carolina which does not have individual members and does not subscribe to a handicapping service. North Carolina clubs pay an initiation fee of $300, which includes the first year's dues, and subsequent dues are $200 per year. South Carolina clubs pay an initiation fee of $300, which includes the first year's dues, and subsequent dues are $200 per year. This entitles the associate member club to: agronomy services (plus expenses), course measuring and slope rating services, discounted group property, casualty and worker's compensation insurance programs created specifically for member clubs, CGA's role as USGA liaison organization to answer questions about the Rules of Golf, Amateur Status and Amateur Reinstatement, and an annual subscription to Carolinas Golf, the official magazine of the Carolinas Golf Association.