About

We’re building golfers, not just teaching golf.

The Society began with a suspicion we couldn’t shake: plenty of people would love to play golf, and most of them never will — not because they can’t, but because the door has been closed to them for so long they’ve stopped knocking.

So we built a different kind of door. Small cohorts. Coaches who teach in the language you already speak. Rounds that end in dinner. A membership that feels less like a club you join and more like a crowd you’ve been waiting to find.

A Greenside Society gathering at a partner course
Our mission

Open the game up. Keep it that way.

We don’t measure ourselves in handicaps lowered. We measure ourselves in the people who picked up a club for the first time — and were still playing a year later.

Values

What guides every Society day.

  • Welcoming, first

    Every decision runs through one filter: would a first-time golfer feel at home here? If the answer isn’t yes, we change the decision.

  • Premium, never precious

    We sweat the details — the coffee, the hosting, the pace of the day — without any of the theatre.

  • People over performance

    Nobody remembers your score. They remember whether you were laughing on the fifteenth.

  • Honest coaching

    Plain language, real progress, and never a session sold you don’t need.

Coaches

A small, deliberate team.

Our coaches are hired for warmth and clarity as much as credentials — patient with the nervous, sharp with the returning, and quietly delighted by both.

James Otieno
James Otieno
Head Coach
Aisha Karanja
Aisha Karanja
Lead Beginner Coach
Brian Mwangi
Brian Mwangi
Junior Programme Coach
Partner courses

Hosted at Kenya’s best-loved courses.

We don’t own a course, and that’s the point. Instead, we partner with a hand-picked circuit of clubs and ranges across Nairobi, the coast, and up-country — so the Society travels well and the view keeps changing.

Karen Country Club
Nairobi
Karen Country Club
Windsor Golf Hotel
Nairobi
Windsor Golf Hotel
Vipingo Ridge
Coast
Vipingo Ridge
Muthaiga Golf Club
Nairobi
Muthaiga Golf Club
Great Rift Valley Lodge
Naivasha
Great Rift Valley Lodge
Sigona Range
Kiambu
Sigona Range
Begin

Come and see for yourself.

A ten-minute conversation is the easiest way to know if the Society is for you.