Supporting the Game

As the national sport organization (NSO) for golf in Canada, as designated by Sport Canada, Golf Canada is charged with promoting and increasing participation in golf in Canada, including assisting our best and brightest athletes to excel and represent Canada on the international stage.

Membership dollars play a vital role in achieving these goals. We share responsibility for developing and delivering programs with the ten provincial amateur golf associations as key partners in the administration of golf. Often, they are the first point of contact for Golf Canada members, and membership in your provincial golf association gives you automatic membership in Golf Canada.

Your membership dollars help to support Canada's next generation of golfers. Through CN Future Links, Canada’s national junior program, Golf Canada introduces the sport of golf to 115,000 children each year. In partnership with the provincial golf associations and the Canadian Professional Golfers Association, more than 643,000 young golfers have participated in CN Future Links activities since 1996.

Golf Canada also runs the National Golf in Schools program. Designed with fun and safety in mind, and a foremost goal of aligning the program with provincial education curriculums, the program aims to give children an opportunity to experience and learn a sport that helps build character and promote life-long activity.

Team Canada provides Canada's top up-and-coming golfers the opportunity to receive world class coaching, training, nutrition and sport psychology advice, as well as international competitive experience. The goal is to help create the next generation of Canadian golf stars. Amateur championships provide the highest level of competition for the best amateur golfers of all ages to prepare for the international stage.

Conducting Canada’s only LPGA and PGA TOUR events, the CN Canadian Women’s Open and the RBC Canadian Open championships allow Canadian golf fans to witness the highest level of professional competition and inspire our golfing youth to excel. In addition, these events leave an ongoing legacy wherever they are held by contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to local charities.

Golf Canada, through the RCGA Foundation, also provides $145,000 in scholarships and $150,000 in funding annually to Canadian universities and colleges. These funds provide opportunities for the best and brightest Canadian scholar-athletes to stay in Canada for their post secondary education, while continuing to compete at a high level.

• Member Resource Centre
• Volunteer Recognition
• Golf Canada Women's Fund
• Adopt a School
• Golf Canada Foundation