A Golf Club is an organization of individual members that operates under bylaws with Committees (Handicap Committee required) to supervise golf activities and maintain the integrity of the Rules of Handicapping™. Only a player affiliated with an authorized Golf Club can establish or maintain a Handicap Index®.
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A golf club, which may or may not be associated with a golf course or facility, is a group of at least 10 active individual members on the handicap roster.
A golf club is required to have a Handicap Committee to supervise golf activities, provide peer review, as well as apply and maintain the integrity of the Rules of Handicapping.
Members of a golf club should have a reasonable and regular opportunity to play golf with each other and reside in a geographic proximity to facilitate this, with members generally within a 100-mile radius of the principal location of the golf club.
To ensure proper handicap administration and oversight, as well as practical knowledge of the Rules of Handicapping, exists at the local level, each golf club must complete an education requirement within six months of the beginning of every revision of the WHS or upon onboarding.