This paper discusses the legal disputes which the members of golf clubs confront with in relation to the regulation of the golf club. In Korea, most of golf courses are operated as deposit type golf club. The legal problems related to the golf club center on the status of the membership of the golf club when a client is admitted to a golf club or a membership holder transfers his or her membership to the other person. However, this paper limits the scope of research on the deposit type golf membership system in which the legal problems arise. More than anything else, the deposit type golf membership is a right to the owner of the golf course. The character of the golf club membership is a contractual right. Most of country clubs are not corporate judicial persons so that they are not leral entities. Therefore, the legal issue related to the glof club membership is understood as relationship between the owner of the golf course and the member of golf club. Also the golf club rule, which regulates the admission procedure and qualification criteria for the golf club members, is only considered as a standing operating procedure of the golf course. Seeing that the golf course company solicits a client to be admitted to the club and receive the admission fee, the status of golf club membership of the client is valid even though the solicitation and receiving the admission fee is conducted against the golf club regulation or by persons without appropriate representation for the golf course company. However, if the client knew or had surely known the misconduct above mentioned, the client cannot assert validity of his or her membership. Considering the contractual character of the membership right, the transfer of the membership is freely allowed so that the force of transfer is in effect between the transferor and the transferee. But the transferee should put his or her name on the golf club roster to use the membership in the golf course and to assert his membership right against the golf course company. Even though the bylaw of the golf club is permitted to restrict the transfer of the membership, the bylaw should be reasonable to be valid for restriction. And the mebership hoder cannot transfer the right and the obligation of the membership separately. The golf course company and the golf club member cannot change the character of the membership right without other party s consent. Even though the types and total number of the membership which the government authority approved cannot be changed even with other party s consent or by the provision of the bylaws. The general theory concerning the general clause and the law regulating the general clause regulate the character of the golf club rule and validity of the golf club membership rights. Accordingly, the judgment of the binding force between the parties nad the fairness of the golf club rule can be more deeply discussed applying the civil law theory about the general clause and law regulating general clause. Currently the construction of the golf courses based on deposit golf club system increases in numbers. The importance of the golf club membership as asset or object of investment is increasing especially in Seoul metropolitan area. Therefore the legal dispute related to the golf club membership can be expected to increase in numbers. The general clause theory will come to the front to resolve this kind of legal dispute in the courts sooner or later.