By Greg Johnson
Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist proclaimed June as Michigan Golf Month, and Rep. Stephanie Young, D-Detroit, came because the state legislators were all invited to Michigan Golf Day at the Capitol Thursday.
Members of the Michigan Golf Alliance, a cooperative body of five state golf associations, shared its message of economic, environmental and human impact of the game with face-to-face talks over lunch and a program that included presentations by Renee Fluker, the founder and president of the Midnight Golf Program in Detroit, Gilda Johnson, the owner of Lake Forest Golf Club and the Michigan Golf Course Association president, and a video featuring Dr. Brian Horgan of the MSU College of Agriculture & Natural Resources.
More than 200 legislators and staffers who attended learned more about golf’s impact on the state as each year the golf governing bodies keep up education programs to make sure the sport is supported in business, agriculture and recreation.
