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Don't know about the PGA, but the USGA handicap is valid.

Yes

Sorry, the PGA doesn't do handicaps.

Yes.

Our handicaps are through USGA licensed Type 3 clubs.

When you purchase a silver membership, you can join a club within 50 miles of you. Your PGA tournament director can verify the club directly with the USGA.

So are you saying that Type 1 and 2 club handicaps aren't legitimate? Please explain. Why only type 3?

Type 1 is the old fashioned "landed club" AKA a golf course. That's where the standard GHIN handicap comes from. Type 2 is a privates golf club, can be online like ours, but in the past, it's usually been a group with a "traveling" type play set-up. Google the Delaware Valley Golf Club for a good example. They also issue a GHIN number if you keep a handicap with them. All these options produce a valid handicap.

My understanding was that they ALL produce a valid handicap as well, but I'm questioning why Chase said "Our handicaps are through USGA licensed Type 3 clubs".

Why aren't type 1 and 2 clubs included? Is there something we should be aware of?

http://www.usga.org/playing/ha..

A golf club is one of three (3) types:

1) It is located at a single specific golf course with a valid USGA Course RatingT and USGA Slope Rating® where a majority of the club's events are played and the club's scoring records reside; or

2) Its members are affiliated or known to one another via a business, fraternal, ethnic or social organization. The majority of the club members had an affiliation prior to organizing the club; or

3) The members had no prior affiliation and a majority of the recruiting and sign-up of the membership is done by solicitation to the general public (e.g., Internet, newspaper).

GolfNet facilitates handicaps for all types.

Membership to a Type 3 club is our network of consumer/affiliate sites: http://www.golfnet.com/about-u../

Membership to a Type 1 club is through one of our associations. These associations are powered by GolfNet instead of GHIN: http://www.golfnet.com/about-u../

Our Type 2 clubs are handled on a case by case basis. (Organizations pay us directly to facilitate their group).

Mongo, they all can be used to obtain a valid handicap, but the rules on what you and the club need to do (the requirements) for obtaining a valid handicap are somewhat different. Thus the significance of identifying GolfNet clubs as Type 3 clubs is it allows you to zero in on the requirements the club and you must follow for your handicap to be recognized by the USGA.

Can you be in more than one club at a time?

We have private clubs (Type 2) and public clubs (Type 3).

You can be a member of private clubs in addition to a public club.

However some of are clubs (public and private) are not yet "compliant" with the USGA. You can be a member of multiple "pending" Type 3 clubs until one gets licensed. Once you're in a "compliant" Type 3 club, there is no reason to be in another one.

I am a member of a private club now, the public Philly club will not let me join when I click on the "Join" link. It tells me I can only be a member of 1 club. Both clubs share events and it makes it difficult to keep track of what's going on in the public club. I also can't post when I'm looking for a partner. I don't want to quit the private club.