County Members Welcome2023

• ELIGIBILITY – All entrants must be paid-up County Members.
• ENTRY FEE for meetings is £38 per pair.
• FORM OF COMPETITION – Eight Fourball Better Ball Stableford from yellow tees and two AM-AM events (team of 4 – 2 from 4 to count).
• HANDICAP ALLOWANCE – 85% of the WHS course handicap specific to the course being played with full stroke allowance.
• Only players with a WHS handicap will be eligible to win the prizes in County Members meetings.
• Entry to the Seniors meetings is restricted to those members who are 55 years old or older on the day of the competition.
• ENTRY PROCESS – make an entry on-line, using the “Register” link on the schedule of events on the Yorkshire Union of Golf Clubs website, under the County Members tab. Payment will be taken on-line by credit or debit card. Your email address will be required, and when the draw is done, you will be notified by email of the start time which you have been allocated.
• Payments are taken at the time of booking, apart from those who go onto the wait list. No payment will be taken until the pairing is moved from the wait list to the ‘confirmed’ list.
• After the Competition closing date, should a pair drop out, entry monies will NOT be refunded but entrants may arrange for a substitution providing the player substituted complies with the above rules.
• USE OF BUGGIES subject to the agreement of the Host Club and following prior production of a medical certificate of disability, a motorised golf cart for the exclusive use only of the person named on the certificate will be permitted; his partner is not allowed to make any use of that Buggy unless he also has medical dispensation.

Any member of any club affiliated to the Yorkshire Union of Golf Clubs may become a County member applying online here or by completing an application form and submitting it to the Secretary of the County Members Association along with the appropriate one-off life membership fee, currently £40. County Rules 2(A)b and 27 state that only members of ‘THE UNION’ can be County Members and to be a member of the Union it is necessary to be a male playing member of an affiliated Club [2(A)b].

You are also entitled to purchase and wear the Association tie and a range of County Members merchandise.

Once you have become a County Member you can enter any of the ten competitions run by the Association each year (Seniors events restricted to players over 55 years of age on the day of the competition). These events are held at courses throughout Yorkshire so you will enjoy a variety of different types of courses and challenges. Eight of the competitions are Fourball Better Ball while two of the events are team AM-AM’S (team of four members) so you enter as a pair with one of your golfing friends, not necessarily from the same club, which means the events are great social events.

Prizes are presented, usually by the County President, to the top six scores on the day (better balls) and the top three (AM-AMs).

Joining is simple.