Ncga

The Northern California Golf Association was formed more than 100 years ago by five clubs - Menlo CC, Oakland GC (now Claremont CC), Presidio GC, Linda Vista (now San Jose CC), and San Francisco GC - with the sole purpose of participating in the Pacific Coast Amateur Championship. From that humble beginning, the NCGA has grown to an association consisting of 400 regular clubs and more than 850 associate clubs with a total membership approaching 180,000 members. Today, members spread from the Oregon border to central California and east into Nevada allowing the NCGA to become one of the largest regional golf associations in the world.

NCGA Foundation:
The charitable arm of the NCGA seeks to promote life skills and values through the game of golf to deserving youth in communities across Northern California. This includes the Youth on Course initiative which strives to offer the youth of Northern California access to golf courses by subsidizing discounted green fees so a child pays no more than $5. Check it out here:

Poppy Hills and Poppy Ridge Golf Courses:
In 1986, the NCGA opened its own members course, Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach, which was the first course in the United States to be owned and operated by an amateur golf association. Poppy Hills has played host to several prominent tournaments, including the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and is consistently ranked among the top courses throughout the United States.

The association continued to grow with the addition of a second course, Poppy Ridge Golf Course in Livermore in 1996. Poppy Ridge is easily accessible to NCGA members as approximately 90,000 of the nearly 180,000 NCGA members live within a 65-mile radius of the course.