Determined to accomplish its case as an industry that creates jobs, supports charities and protects the environment, a affiliation of golf admiral visited Congressional leaders April 28 as allotment of National Golf Day.
In contempo years, the golf industry has agitated its lobbying efforts to accomplish legislators added acquainted of the game’s contributions. Its latest change came in the anatomy of We Are Golf, a affiliation led by four key associations: Club Managers Association of America, Golf Advance Superintendents Association of America, National Golf Advance Owners Association and PGA of America.
Unveiled at the PGA Merchandise Show in January, We Are Golf is a above action advised to afford accessible misperceptions – abnormally those captivated by legislators – about golf. Industry leaders say stereotypes, for example, that the action is annihilation added than an elitist game, accept aching golf business, abnormally in agreement of accepting federal support.
"The adherence the industry showed today on Capitol Hill is alarmingly important" said Mike Hughes, NGCOA's arch executive, in a statement. "Securing a bench at the action table in Washington, D.C., and throughout the country requires us all to bigger ascertain and allegorize the 'we' in We Are Golf – that golf is added than just a game, it's one in 75 jobs. . ."
The affiliation already has launched a public-awareness campaign, including a Web website (www.WeAreGolf.org), advocating golf's benefits. Among the highlights are golf's bread-and-butter contributions (based on 2005 data) such as:
• Producing 2 actor jobs in the U.S.
• Generating $61 actor in absolute accomplishment nationally
• Creating a $76 billion industry
To accompany such abstracts to life, We Are Golf alien associates of Congress to humans such as Rafael Barajas, a GCSAA certified golf advance administrator at Hacienda Golf Club in La Habra Heights, Calif. At 14, Barajas confused with his ancestors from Colima, Mexico, to southern California. On a bounded course, he landed a job with the golf advance administration staff. That opportunity, supplemented with all-encompassing on-going continuing education, acquired into a full-time career. Today, Barajas oversees a agents of 28 on the golf advance administration staff.
"I am not abiding area I would be after the golf industry. I apperceive abounding added individuals who feel the aforementioned way," Barajas told legislators. "That industry has provided me a career and a agency to accommodate a academy apprenticeship for four children."
Added Joe Steranka, PGA of America's CEO:
"We Are Golf allows our industry to plan as one with assembly on a advanced ambit of issues that affect baby business. . . Today, we began a new era in golf’s collaborative chat with federal policymakers."
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