The following are local special benefits that come with your EWGA membership

Golf

• 40% off posted rate at Desert Willow Golf Resort for any EWGA Desert chapter member. (Discount only applies if booked within 7 days.) 20% off for any other EWGA chapter member. Must give member number when making reservations, and at check-in must present that same card. 38-995 Desert Willow Drive, Palm Desert, Phone: (760) 346-7060. (www.desertwillow.com)
  
  
• Rancho Mirage Country Club - Jhas developed special rates for Chapter members. Greens fees are for 18 holes, and include cart and range balls. Tee times may be booked up to four days in advance. You must inform the club when you call to book a tee-time AND show your EWGA membership card when you arrive in the Pro Shop. (This discount applies only to EWGA members; not non-member playing partners.)
  
  The special 18-hole EWGA rates are:
  Nov. 1-May 29, 2006: $55; $39 after 12:30 p.m.
  May 30-Sept. 30, 2006: $25; $18 after 12:30 p.m.
  
  For members who prefer a 9-hole round, RMCC offers $20 for 9 holes after 2 p.m.
  
  Rack rates  at RMCC range from $69 to $85 during the season, so take advantage of this discount!
  
  
• Indian Palms Country Club in Indio has extended a special offer to all EWGA Chapter members: an 18-hole $45 rate during October, November and December. Call 760/347-2326 to reserve your tee times. Be sure and mention the discount and you MUST present your EWGA membership card when you check-in at the Pro Shop.

Apparel & Equipment

• 10% shopping discount to Chapter members at Golf Etc.
  La Quinta courtesy of owners Tom and Dal (Dal joined the Chapter). Please show your membership card when shopping in the store.  Golf Etc. is just east of the new Wal-Mart on Highway 111 in La Quinta.
  
  
• 10 % shopping discount at California Golf Mart
  At the corner of Washington & Country Club in Bermuda Dunes.
  
  
• 10 % shopping discount in all Lady Golf stores
  and on the Web site (www.ladygolf.com) courtesy of Lady Golf owner Karen Can'trell. Simply present your EWGA membership card. Lady Golf locations are 42-412 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage Ca. and His Lady Golf (Karen's 1st licensed store) located at 73-290 El Paseo Palm Desert, CA.
  
  
• Michele Davis, owner of Wild Cat Golf Wear in Palm Springs is offering EWGA members a 20% discount. You can visit her Web site at www.wildcatgolfwear.com and then call them to obtain the discount (with your EWGA membership card). Phone is 760/325-6275; fax is 760/325-6277. E-mail is info@wildcatgolfwear.com . Among other items, Michele has matching gloves, visors and head-covers in leopard and red/white/blue.
  
  
• 10% Discount on purchases at Las Vegas Golf in Palm Desert, near Country Club and Cook Street. Please show your EWGA membership card. Phone: (760) 568-1111.