Golfdom, June 2011
Taking Aim Continued from page 23 24 Golfdom June 2011 PHOTOS COURTESY GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ARCHIVES leaders the leaders of the GCSAA or any other formal organization It is squarely focused on you the superintendent the fella who is out there managing his 80 to 200 acre golf course every day The industry as a whole is taking steps to advance the cause Take for instance the We Are Golf initiative The question is what are you doing Perhaps you are making a serious effort to cut down on the inputs that you are using on your golf course fewer pesticides herbicides fungicides less water and fertilizer Perhaps you have a formal IPM plan or are trying to improve wildlife habitat on the course But are these things enough The answer is No they are not For if no one knows about the things that we are doing it should be considered as not doing them at all If our efforts are not promulgated they are not effective Our opponents are able to make extravagant inflammatory and often entirely false claims about our industry and never be called to the mat about it There will be no help from our national media National initiatives The two animals at the center of the Sharp Park drama the San Francisco garter snake and the California red legged frog such as We Are Golf are excellent but are mostly focused on the national interests of the industry They dont address local issues Thats where we come in The Sharp Park drama Sharp Park Golf Club in San Francisco is a public course run by the city It is an Alister Mackenzie designed course that sits on the Pacific Ocean It provides an affordable round of golf in an expensive
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