Author: Craig Kessler
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Golf’s Wakeup Call: Facts Matter… Perceptions Matter More
The National Golf Foundation (NGF), the source for all the statistics that appear in this column, reports that more rounds of golf were played in 2021 ... -
Of Droughts and Public Golf Endangerment Acts
It’s tempting to get your hackles up a bit at the constant fusillade of media reportage about Southern Californians conserving no more than 4-6 percent water ... -
Getting to the Root of the Problem: It’s the Land, Stupid!
Too much land that uses too much water to serve the too few who have received too much for too long from the too many who have ... -
Out of COVID’s Frying Pan And Into Drought’s Fire
OH, NO, HERE WE GO AGAIN Whether the American Southwest is on the cusp of another drought or in the middle of a much longer megadrought ... -
Dark Clouds on Muni Golf’s Horizon
The SCGA opened last year with a bold announcement about 2020 being the year of municipal golf; the year we were going get down to focusing ... -
A Change is Gonna Come
Call it an inflection point. Call it a time for action. Call it a tipping point. Or perhaps wax poetic by summoning the timeless wisdom contained ... -
Governmental Affairs: The World Has Changed
BUT IT’S ONLY ACT I OF A LONG PLAY IN A SPEECH to the World Council of Churches in 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke the ... -
Governmental Affairs: Whither Municipal Golf
“Existential” is a word thrown around with impunity. It’s used to describe challenges of all sorts, many of them minor in nature, but in its generic ... -
Governmental Affairs: Why We Do What We Do
THE GAME’S CHALLENGES AREN’T GOING AWAY ANYTIME SOON SCGA GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS was asked by the International Association of Golf Administrators (IAGA) to participate in a 75-minute ... -
Local Spotlight: El Cariso Golf Course
COMMUNITY, FAMILY, MENTORING, GIVING BACK … AND, OH YES, GOLF TOO GEORGE LOPEZ belongs to two of the Southland’s toniest private country clubs. But he calls ...
