What we're about
RIGG was started to give male senior golfers around San Jose a regular, well-organized way to play the area's courses. We play 50 rounds a year at 13 to 15 different courses, all within about 60 miles of San Jose — a local course every Wednesday. The full year's schedule comes out each December and lives right here on the site.
Handicaps across the club run the full range, and every tournament is flighted by handicap and by the tees played, so anyone can have a good day and win their flight.
Who's eligible
RIGG is a club for male golfers age 55 and older.
There are a few steps to becoming a member — all of them really just ways to make sure the club and the new member are a good fit for each other:
- 1Be recommended by a current member.
- 2Complete and submit the New Member Application.
- 3Play as a guest over one or more rounds with two Officers of the club — usually with your sponsor along too.
- 4Show that you know the game — the rules and the etiquette.
- 5The full Board reviews your application and welcomes you in by a majority vote.
- 6Intend to play the recommended 15 rounds a year.
Once the Board says yes, the Vice President sorts out the rest with the Treasurer, the Handicap Chair, the Webmaster and the Master Scheduler: you send your dues to the Treasurer, you go onto the roster and onto the pairing sheets for each course, and you get access to the Members area. If an application isn't successful, the Vice President will let you know.
New members are encouraged to take a turn as a scheduler or collector for one of the courses. It's the fastest way to meet everyone, and it keeps the club humming.
Fees & prizes
- Annual club dues, set by the Board each year, which include your NCGA membership — so an official NCGA handicap index comes with joining. For 2026 that is $85, covering RIGG and the NCGA together. Dues are paid in November for the year beginning January 1.
- A small $3 prize-and-admin fee is added to each green fee, for members and guests alike.
- Prizes go to the low-net scores in each flight, plus closest-to-the-pin on selected holes, which pays $10. Your season total is tracked automatically and shown on your dashboard in the Members area.
- Several times a year we play team competitions — best-ball and similar formats — which carry prizes of their own.
- Green fees are paid on the day, in cash or by card. A few courses ask to be paid about five days ahead through one of our collectors; you'll be told which weeks those are.
- An annual luncheon caps off the year, usually after a December round, at the General Meeting.
Signing up for rounds
Once you're a member, you sign up for each week's round on your dashboard in the Members area — one tap to say you're in. Before then, a Board member or the schedulers will help you get on the list when you come out as a guest.
The whole season is on the schedule, so you can put your name down for a round four to eight weeks ahead — and for the courses everyone wants, it pays to. Sign-ups for a given Wednesday close at 6 PM the day before, which is when the schedulers build the pairings. If you want to play with particular people, or you'd rather walk, or you need a later tee time, leave a note when you sign up — the schedulers read them.
You will never need a password. To get into the Members area you enter your email address and we send you a short code to type in — nothing to remember, nothing to lose.
Many members eventually fall into a regular foursome, though plenty prefer to mix it up week to week. Either way, plan to be at the course at least 30 minutes before your tee time — collectors use that window to fill out the day's pairings, and we often start a little early.