{"id":494,"date":"2010-04-22T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2020-06-06T11:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T15:33:12","slug":"is-usga-membership-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/is-usga-membership-worth-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Is USGA Membership Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8635\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8635\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/usgaUnpacking02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is this all your USGA membership gets you? (Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/gregdandrea\">Greg D&#8217;Andrea<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So I got my annual letter from the United States Golf Association in the mail the other day, begging me to renew my membership. Funny thing is, I&#8217;ve never had a USGA membership &#8211; in fact, I&#8217;m quite positive I&#8217;ve never paid them a dime. Nevertheless, I received the renewal letter, along with my complimentary 15-page (I counted them) notepad and my sweet USGA bumper sticker.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I see those bumper stickers on many cars around town, but I wonder how many of those people have actually paid for a membership? I&#8217;m not innocent either &#8211; while I have a thing against putting bumper stickers on cars, I use the notepad every year. I&#8217;m not sure how they got my name, but it&#8217;s probably from a magazine subscription list (seeing as I subscribe to a few golf-related publications).<\/p>\n<p>This year though, I&#8217;m actually thinking about forking over the $10 to become a member. So I decided to read the &#8220;annual member benefits&#8221; listed on my &#8220;renewal&#8221; form to see what my membership would include:<\/p>\n<p><b>1) Advance priority to apply for U.S. Open 7-day ticket packages.<\/b> Let&#8217;s see, I live in New England and the tournament is in California. That sounded like a good deal until I realized it would cost me well-over a grand to just get there and have a place to stay. Oh, and I don&#8217;t get a discount on tickets, I just get the chance to buy them before other people do.<\/p>\n<p><b>2) 2010-2011 edition of <i>The Rules of Golf<\/i>.<\/b> Not bad, except I already downloaded the app for $3.99 so I no longer had to carry the hardcopy around in my golf bag.<\/p>\n<p><b>3) Official copy of the <i>U.S. Open Program<\/i> publication.<\/b> This would be a nice keepsake&#8230;if I actually was going to be attending the U.S. Open (see #1 above).<\/p>\n<p><b>4) Special USGA Member only discount on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troongolf.com\/guest_programs\/troon_golf_cards.php\">2010 TROON Golf Card<\/a>.<\/b> Not bad if you live in Arizona, California and Florida (the states with more than three Troon courses featured). The closest course for me would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakeofisles.com\/\">Lake of Isles<\/a> and even with the discount, I&#8217;d have to pay over $100 per round!<\/p>\n<p><b>5) Special Member discounts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgashop.com\/default.aspx\">USGA catalog merchandise and USGA Photo Store<\/a>.<\/b> Which really amounts to U.S. Open and USGA gear. But I really can&#8217;t see myself forgoing a $9.99 Champion polo at Target for a $39.99 Cutter &amp; Buck polo on there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2009USOPENhat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4255\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2009USOPENhat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2009USOPENhat\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2009USOPENhat-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2009USOPENhat-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2009USOPENhat.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><b>7) Personalized bag tag<\/b> Just in case I forget which bag in the foursome is mine.<\/p>\n<p><b>8) The USGA Insider monthly e-newsletter.<\/b> Why don&#8217;t they just say &#8220;more inbox clutter&#8221; instead?<\/p>\n<p>and finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>9) 2010 U.S. Open Hat.<\/b> See photo of 2009&#8217;s version. Enough said.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so now that I came up will all these reasons not to spend $10 to become a USGA member, I&#8217;m going to reverse course on you. You see, I&#8217;m really missing the point in all this. The membership is not about the member benefits at all, it&#8217;s about the benefits to golf itself. If you notice, I skipped number 6. 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