About a dozen or so of us play with each other on a regular basis. But we tend to play a lot of different
golf courses. Some of us kept handicaps at the local county courses using the GHIN system. It cost us
each $21 a year, and we did not know our updated handicaps for weeks after posting scores.
So we ordered the USGA Handicap Manual (it was $5 at the time, the phone number is on their Web Site),
and e-mailed the USGA at
handicap@usga.org and received a FREE Club Formation Kit.
The next step was to come up with By-Laws. So we went to the USGA Web Site, cut and paste the sample
By-Laws into a Microsoft Word document, and adjusted them to our needs.
That's it! The USGA did not need to know about our individual club name, and there was no official
registration process. It is up to the individuals in the designated USGA Golf Club to uphold the
integrity of the game. We have named a handicap chairman and all the suggested "officers", and
run our own golf club without Real Estate.
So we now print our Official USGA Handicap Cards using the
American Golf System and the appropriate supplies. Then we post
our Club Listing to the Web Site to satisfy peer review (this is where the Internet Publishing idea
grew from!). We enter tournaments requiring official USGA handicaps and
never have a problem with any events (i.e. the Buick Scramble).
This is the premise the American Golf System supports.
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