The Golf Channel today reported on the formation of We Are Golf.  In a media roundtable earlier today, the author quoted CEO of The PGA of America Joe Steranka:

We no longer can be absent from that table,” Steranka. “The government, whether it’s at the federal level or the state level, is developing and enacting legislation that impacts small business. President Obama talked about $30 billion going towards small business. Well, we think that golf is a candidate for some of that, again, because of the stability of the business operations, the diversity of the people it employs and the fact that most are played in public access facilities.”

Source: thegolfchannel.com