Golf Digest's environmental stories in December, which included a story on water conservation by David Owen and an interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Friedman,
did not impress reader Ross Hatcher.
Dear Editor,
Enough with the global warming articles already! When I pick up a copy of Golf Digest, I look forward to being informed and entertained about issues that are actually relevant to the game. However, I recently often seem to find myself being preached to about the threat of nonexistent environmental disasters. I've had enough of it now and have officially switched to Golf Magazine for my tips, stories, and equipment reviews. If you would focus more on the game instead of trying to push absurd liberal agendas, you would have retained a customer.
Ross Hatcher
We'll miss you, Ross. And I mean that. But I think you'll miss us, as well. Even if you think there is no merit in stories on the environment--in the face of not only considerable evidence and the buy-in of the Golf Course Superintendents Association, among most organizations and companies in the industry--you'll miss 11 other issues with David Leadbetter, Butch Harmon, Jim McLean, Jim Flick, the Hot List and the best writers on the sport in the business, not mention interviews like this month's with Lee Trevino, or the fact that sooner or later our competitors at Golf will discover environmental issues and you'll have to switch back to us. Seriously, we think the environment is every golfer's business--regardless of your positions on things like water conservation and pesticide use. Stay around for the debate.
--Bob Carney
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