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How to Find, Recover, or Reactivate Your GHIN Number

Summary This article explains how to find, recover, or obtain your GHIN number and what to do to reactivate an existing GHIN when returning to play.

Find or recover your GHIN number

  • Contact MGA Support
    • Provide identifying details (name and the email address previously or currently associated with your account). Support can locate your GHIN and update your account email if needed.
  • Contact the club you play(ed) with
    • If you currently play with a specific club, contact that club’s staff (for example, the golf professional or club administrator). Clubs can assist with membership renewal and confirm your GHIN affiliation.
  • Check affiliation with another association
    • If your GHIN account is affiliated with a different association, contact that association to reactivate or renew the account.

Reactivate an existing GHIN

  • Renew through your club
    • Renewing your handicap membership at the club with which you play will reactivate the same GHIN number.
  • Renew online if you are not currently playing with a club
    • Renew online through an MGA EClub or a participating public club via the Join the MGA membership options on mgagolf.org. Renewing the same GHIN online will reactivate your account.

If you cannot reactivate through the website

  • Contact MGA Support for assistance. Support can confirm your GHIN, update account email information, and help complete reactivation.

Practical steps (recommended)

  1. Gather identifying information: full name and any email address previously used for your MGA or GHIN account.
  2. Choose one:
    • Contact your club’s staff to confirm and renew your GHIN membership.
    • Or visit the Join the MGA membership options to renew online through an MGA EClub or a participating public club.
  3. If you cannot renew online or do not know your GHIN, contact MGA Support and provide your identifying information so staff can locate your account and provide your GHIN number.
  4. After renewal, your existing GHIN number will be reactivated for play and handicapping.

Troubleshooting tips

  • If support locates your GHIN but your account email is outdated, ask support to update the email on the account so you receive confirmation and future communications.
  • If your account is managed by another association, reach out to that association for renewal and reactivation assistance.
  • If website reactivation fails, contact MGA Support rather than attempting multiple online renewals.

Conclusion To recover or obtain your GHIN number, contact your club or MGA Support with your identifying information, or renew through an MGA EClub or participating public club online. Once you renew with the same GHIN, the number will be reactivated for your handicap membership.