Pesticides & The Canadian Golf Industry

With the recent focus from the CBC documentary "Dad and the Dandelions", this is a good opportunity for the golf industry to remind you the public of how effective our environmental stewardship actually is.

The following key messages, are distributed by the National Allied Golf Association partners, support consistent‎ dialogue with golfers, media, government, environmentalist and any other stakeholders. The intent is to align all of our messaging for consistent representation of the facts. The topic of pesticides can be a sensitive one, and often based more on opinion and emotion than scientific facts. These key messages help clarify those facts.

Sources for this key message document included:

Health Canada

Guelph Turfgrass Institute

University of Guelph

IPM Council of Canada

Audubon International

Canadian Golf Economic Impact Study

NGCOA‎ Canada

CGSA

Golf Canada

PGA of Canada

CSCM

The document is presented as an FAQ format. Some of these questions are directly relevant to clarifications needed due to the CBC documentary, and some are more broadly based information you may be interested in.  Please click the FAQ button below for the complete FAQ document

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