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Through support provided by the Environmental Institute for Golf, GCSAA has announced it will fund four new research projects in 2012. The new projects were selected by GCSAA's research committee and approved by its board of directors. A survey of chapter leaders helped to prioritize areas where research is needed.
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The U.S. Department of Labor will publish today a final rule that makes significant changes to the H-2B visa program. The rule will be effective 60 days after publication. GCSAA strongly objected to this rule via public comment to the agency. Help may be available via a joint resolution introduced by Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA 5th District), which seeks Congressional disapproval of the H-2B programmatic rule. Stay tuned for an action alert to ask your elected officials to help pass this resolution.
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At last week's Florida Golf Day, legislators and leaders in the golf industry gathered to acknowledge the game's contributions to the state's economy. The size of Florida's direct golf economy is roughly $7.5 billion, according to data from SRI International. Florida's golf industry is also estimated to generate $13.8 billion of direct, indirect and induced economic output, $4.7 billion of wage income and more than 167,000 jobs.
Lindsey Hoffman, Renee Rioux and Joseph Roberts have each been awarded $5,000 postgraduate grants as winners of GCSAA's 2011 Watson Fellowship Program. Funded by a partnership between The Toro Co. and the Environmental Institute for Golf, the fellowship is designed for students working toward postgraduate degrees who have been identified as promising future teachers and researchers in the field of golf course management.
Applications are now being accepted for Par Aide's Joseph S. Garske Collegiate Grant Program, which assists GCSAA members' children in funding their education at an accredited college or trade school. Available to children of members who have been an active member for five or more consecutive years, the grants go to high school graduates accepted at an institution of higher learning for the upcoming year. The application deadline is March 15.
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