TIL almost every private club in America hosts at least one charity outing per year where anyone can play
I've known about this for a while but never realized how widespread it was until I started digging.
For $300-600 you can tee it up at courses that would otherwise cost $30K-$100K+ to join as a member. The events are hosted by nonprofits and foundations, the club donates the course for a day and opens it up to outside players to raise money for charity.
The problem is finding them. They're scattered across nonprofit websites, Eventbrite, local foundation pages, and individual club calendars. There's no central directory.
So I built one: playprivategolf.com
It's powered by a giant web scraper that searches the weekly, reads each page, and extracts charity golf events at top private and top-100 courses across the US. Right now it covers 370+ private clubs across 14 states with more being added.
Completely free to use. No signup required. Nothing being sold here.
Happy to answer any questions about how it works or take suggestions for courses/states to add. Also, if you know of events that aren't showing up, drop them below and I'll add them manually.