Our mission is to grow the game of golf while connecting entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and small business owners to the relationships, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed.
The Entrepreneur Golf Club exists to build a stronger bridge between golf, business, and lifestyle. We create spaces where members can improve their game, grow as leaders, expand their network, and access opportunities that move them forward.
Growing the Game of Golf
We want more entrepreneurs, professionals, and business leaders to experience golf in a way that feels welcoming, valuable, and connected to real life. Through training, events, clinics, and curated golf experiences, EGC helps members build confidence on the course while deepening their appreciation for the game.
Strengthening Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses
EGC is designed to create access. We connect members to relationships, conversations, resources, partnerships, and business development opportunities that can help them grow. The goal is not just to network. The goal is to help entrepreneurs and small business owners move with more confidence, clarity, and support.
Elevating Member Lifestyle
We believe success should create access to better experiences, better rooms, and better relationships. Through private dinners, retreats, member events, partner perks, and curated experiences, EGC helps members build a lifestyle around connection, growth, and community.
We Add Value First
We believe strong communities are built through generosity, introductions, support, and shared knowledge.
We Protect the Room
The quality of the community matters. We are intentional about who joins because trust, character, and alignment shape the member experience.
We Grow Together
EGC is built for people who want to improve in business, golf, leadership, and life.
We Build Bridges
We connect people across industries, backgrounds, and communities so opportunity can move in more directions.
I created The Entrepreneur Golf Club from a simple belief: golf has always been one of the most powerful environments for building trust, but there needed to be a community intentionally built for entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and business leaders who wanted to use the game to grow.
As an entrepreneur and lifelong athlete, I have always valued competition, discipline, and relationships. When I discovered golf, I saw how the game created space for real conversation, patience, focus, and connection. A round of golf gives people time to talk, learn, compete, laugh, and build trust in a way that feels natural.
At the same time, I saw a gap. Many networking spaces felt forced, and many golf spaces were not designed around entrepreneurial growth, business development, or access for people who were building something meaningful.
EGC was created to bring those worlds together.
What started as a vision for better connection has become a growing community built around golf, business, lifestyle, and shared ambition. My goal is to build a room where members can grow their relationships, sharpen their game, expand their opportunities, and be surrounded by people who are moving with purpose.
I invite you to be part of what we are building.
Derrick Ziglar Jr.
Founder, The Entrepreneur Golf Club
Today, EGC is a growing community of entrepreneurs, executives, investors, professionals, and partners who believe relationships still matter.
Our members represent different industries, backgrounds, business stages, and golf skill levels. Some are experienced golfers. Some are just getting started. What connects the community is not a handicap or a title. It is ambition, character, curiosity, and a desire to grow alongside the right people.
EGC is built for people who want to give value, build trust, improve personally and professionally, and be part of a community that creates real opportunity.
Charlotte is the foundation for EGC, but the vision is bigger than one city. We are building a national community that helps entrepreneurs grow through golf, relationships, business development, and shared access to opportunity.
I’ve always been an athlete at heart. As a former football player, competition and discipline shaped much of who I am. But when I discovered golf, it was different. Golf challenged me in new ways—it wasn’t just physical, it was mental. It demanded patience, precision, and growth.
At the same time, I’ve always been an entrepreneur. I love solving problems, building relationships, and creating opportunities. Yet I found myself asking: Where is the space for entrepreneurs like me to merge business with the game we love? I didn’t just want to play golf—I wanted to golf with people who were sharp, ambitious, and building something meaningful.
That’s why I created the Entrepreneur Golf Club (EGC). It’s more than a membership—it’s a community designed for entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals who see golf as both a passion and a platform. At EGC, every round, event, and connection is intentional. We play, we learn, we challenge ourselves—and in the process, we build authentic relationships that lead to growth, collaboration, and success.
We’re starting in Charlotte, a city full of entrepreneurial energy and opportunity. But this is just the beginning. EGC is growing into a national network where your membership doesn’t stop at one course—it connects you to leaders and opportunities across every chapter we launch.
The first 25 Founding Members of Charlotte will not only receive an exclusive Founders Pack, they will forever be recognized as the visionaries who believed first. Together, we’re building a culture where golf isn’t just a game—it’s a lifestyle, a business tool, and a movement.
I invite you to join us. Not just as a member, but as part of a community that will shape how entrepreneurs connect for years to come.
— Derrick Ziglar Jr.
Founder, Entrepreneur Golf Club