in January 1995, 81 people got together in a conference room at Pebble Beach for three days to discuss what could be done to make golf more eco-friendly. Present were representatives from all the major golfing bodies, and all the leading national and local environmental groups, too. There had never been such a meeting before. “it was really dif cult getting some people to come,” recalls Paul Parker, executive vice president of the Center for resource Management, which orchestrated the meeting. “Particularly from the golf-community side, there was a lot of suspicion about who these environmental people were, and why they kept criticizing golf. They felt that the environmentalists didn’t understand the game and had not made much of an effort to understand it. They saw these guys as the enemy.”
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