The organization is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Association operations are administered by four full-time staff members and one USGA P.J. Boatwright, Jr. intern. Nearly 100 women volunteer for the CWGA serving on various standing committees.

The CWGAs mission is accomplished through the many activities that it organizes and runs. The CWGA is able to conduct these different activities due to the help of the numerous volunteers that serve on the board of directors and/or committees. The committees include Course Rating and Handicapping, Junior Golf, Long Range Planning, Membership, Public Relations, Rules, Site Location, and Tournament.

The CWGA is comprised of nearly 19,000 individual members. These individual members belong to member clubs that, in turn, conduct their club events at member facilities. There are currently about 265 CWGA member clubs (private, public, resort, military, non-real estate). (Non-real estate clubs do not typically have a home course.)