About Play Private Golf

Play Private Golf is an independent, national directory of charity golf outings held at private clubs across the United States. Every event we list is open to public registration: you sign up with the charity hosting the outing, pay an entry fee that supports their cause, and play a course that is normally closed to non-members.

We are not a booking service, a tee-time broker, or a membership broker. We do not sell entries, take a commission, or handle your money. We find the events, organize them so they are searchable by state and by course, and send you to the organizer to register.

Some of the most storied private clubs in America open their gates a handful of times each year for charity events. Anyone can play. The catch is that these outings are almost impossible to find: they are scattered across club tournament calendars, individual foundation pages, regional nonprofit newsletters, and PDF flyers that never rank in search results. A golfer who wanted to play a top-100 course had no practical way to learn that a charity was hosting an outing there in six weeks.

That is the specific problem this site solves. We consolidate those scattered listings into one searchable place, add the context needed to decide whether an event is worth traveling for, and keep the directory current through the season as new outings are announced.

Play Private Golf is published by a small independent editorial team. We are golfers, not club officials or industry insiders. We have no affiliation with any club, course, charity, or tour listed here, and no club has any say in what we publish.

Our expertise is narrow and practical: we spend our time tracking how public access to private courses actually works in the United States — charity outings, member-guest rules, reciprocal arrangements, and what each one costs. That is the only subject we write about. We do not cover equipment, instruction, or professional tournaments, because we have no particular authority there and would just be repeating other people.

Listings come from publicly posted charity event pages, public club tournament calendars, and direct submissions from organizers. We only publish outings genuinely open to the public — invitation-only and member-guest events are left out even when we know about them.

Course details like par, yardage, architect, and championship history come from published, checkable references and are kept in a curated dataset. When we cannot verify a course's figures, we show no statistics for it at all rather than publishing an estimate. Our full methodology, including our corrections policy, is documented on our editorial standards page.

Every dollar of an entry fee should go to the cause behind the event, so we take no cut of any registration. The site is supported by third-party advertising, which is kept entirely separate from editorial decisions. Listings cannot be purchased, the “verified” label cannot be bought, and advertisers have no influence over our guides or our directory.

If we ever get something wrong, we correct it on the page and tell you we did. You can read exactly how that process works in our editorial standards, and see how the site works end to end on our how it works page.

The directory grows with help from players and organizers. If you know of a charity outing at a private club — or spot an error in a listing — tell us and we will get it fixed.

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