Polish Golf Union (
Polski Związek Golfa) is an association of
Polish Golf clubs. It was founded on the 31st of July 1993 in
Warsaw. The following Founding Associations took part in the PGU founding meeting: Gdansk Golf and Country Club, Amber Baltic Golf Club and First Warsaw Golf & Country Club.
The Union associates 51 golf clubs, whose members amount to over 2700 golfers with handicap cards (a sport licence equivalent) PGU HCP.
The main aims of the Union are: promotion, development and organisation of golf in
Poland and representing and protection of interests of clubs associated in the union. PGU is responsible for development, implementation and supervision of the rules of golf issued by
R&A Rules Ltd and translation into Polish per PGU order, as well as organising and setting rules of playing championship rank and other golf tournaments in Poland.
The Union is responsible for selection of the Polish national teams (of various age categories) from its members and submission of the teams to international tournaments.
The PGU was became a member of the
Polish Olympic Committee in 2011, mainly due to golf's re-introduction as an
Olympic discipline from the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro. The PGU is also a member of the
International Golf Federation.
An official classification of amateur players who are members of the Polish Golf Union (PGU) and who have an up-to-date PGU handicap card is the PGU Rank.