The Most Impactful Golf Organization You’ve Never Heard Of
Out of sight, out of mind goes the old saying. But lest out of sight, out of mind become out of business, California’s golfers might benefit from getting to know what the California Alliance for Golf is, what it does, and why it does it. Spoiler alert: It does it for the benefit of the 3.2 million Californians who play and love the game of golf.
CAG is a consortium of golf’s alphabet soup of leadership organizations, some very familiar to golfers like the PGA or USGA, others not so much. What they all have in common is that their boat in the waters known as the California golf community can either be marooned by a receding tide of onerous laws, regulations, policies, and attitudes or lifted by a rising tide of the same.
If you were one of the many who enjoyed golfing during COVID while so many other activities languished, you know what CAG does. If the course you play was able to maintain control over its irrigation practices during one of California’s myriad droughts, you know as well. If you play one of the roughly 230 municipal golf courses in California, you may be playing today on a golf course whose existence was threatened in 2021 and 2022 by the two “Public Golf Endangerment Acts” that would have provided subsidies to develop that course into housing. If you enjoy teeing it up on or near California’s coast, you might be enjoying it less if that course were completely restricted from applying fertilizers and other nonorganic substances. If you like teeing it up after work during the spring and summer months, you might appreciate the extra hour of light you still have to enjoy it. If you feel more secure knowing that there is an organization at the ready and willing to defend against the many efforts to repurpose the state’s urban golf courses into other uses, you too know of the work of the California Alliance for Golf.
The game’s nonprofit leadership organizations came together to fund this effort, because they know they cannot prosper unless the game they serve prospers, and the game cannot prosper unless it can continue accommodating the needs and wants of those who play it. And there is no way to do that without mixing it up in the public arena.
The Southern California PGA Section is proud to join the rest of the state’s allied amateur and professional associations in supporting the California Alliance for Golf (CAG) in its protection and promotion of all that the game of golf provides Californians – both those who do play and work in the game, as well as those who don’t.
Visit www.cagolf.org to learn more today!
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