Aronimink membership fee: What it costs to join the PGA Championship host club
A Top 100 course with rich championship past, Aronimink is also one of the more expensive clubs to join in the Philadelphia area.
Aronimink membership fee: What it costs to join the PGA Championship host club josh. sens One way to join Aronimink Golf Club , host of this week’s PGA Championship , is to win a big-time tournament at the course, then wait. For 63 years.
That’s how Gary Player did it. In 1962, the last time Aronimink staged the PGA, Player edged Bob Goalby by a single shot to claim the Wanamaker Trophy. More than six decades later, in the fall of 2025, the club recognized that feat by making Player an honorary member and naming a room in the clubhouse after him.
A belated tribute? Sure. But also befitting of a club that doesn’t fast-track much.
Founded in 1896 as the Belmont Golf Association, and situated at its current address west of Philadelphia since 1926, Aronimink is an old-fashioned enclave that adds to its ranks the old-fashioned way: methodically. You can’t just stroke a check and join, a source with knowledge of the club told GOLF. com .