36 | Business World Magazine |
December 2013
T
he Golf Course Builders Asso-
ciation of America is a nonprofit
trade association comprised by
the world’s foremost golf course build-
ers as well as leading suppliers to the
golf course construction industry. When
it was founded more than forty years ago,
it was the only organization in the world
organized by and for golf course builders,
and today, it remains the only organiza-
tion that represents the interests of the
golf course construction industry, but to
be sure, the impact this industry has made
should interest all. As GCBAA Execu-
tive Director Justin Apel says, “The ac-
tual value of golf may be impossible to
