The National Alliance for Accessible Golf has a link to the National Alliance for Accessible Golf search engine database for facilities, programs and instructors on its website whereby golf course superintendents can enter accessibility related information into the database for their golf facility. 

Chava McKeel, GCSAA’s director of government affairs, attended and spoke at the Club Management Association of America (CMAA) Leadership/Legislative Conference in Raleigh, N.C. on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. As part of its conference, the CMAA hosted an advocacy panel discussion to highlight the most pressing trends in the golf industry.

The 2019 RISE Annual Meeting was held in Tucson, Ariz., August 26-28, 2019. Chava McKeel, Bob Helland and Michael Lee — GCSAA’s government affairs team — represented the association at the annual meeting, which focused on industry unity, broadening the view of what is considered advocacy and identifying challenges that lie ahead in the specialty pesticide and fertilizer space. The team was able to network with important industry partners throughout the conference.

GCSAA has joined landscape professionals, agriculture, and others in the fight to ensure that superintendents continue to have access to the plant biostimulants vital to golf course management.  Plant biostimulants help natural plant nutritional processes, which improves the health, growth and quality of turfgrass. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering efforts impacting how these important tools should be registered and brought to market.  If not done right, this could restrict access to valuable products such as seaweed extracts. That’s why GCSAA continues to work to ensure regulators get it right, including recent comments submitted to the EPA.