With Congress contemplating federal tax relief for businesses devastated by natural disasters this year, the golf industry is launching a grassroots campaign to ensure that it receives a share.

We Are Golf, the game’s lobbying initiative, is urging golf supporters and industry professionals to contact their congressional leaders to support legislation introduced by Rep. Spencer Bachus and Sen. Richard Shelby, both Republicans from Alabama.

Most importantly, We Are Golf is seeking golf’s inclusion in the bill, which calls for providing temporary tax relief to businesses ravaged by various storms. The golf industry organized We Are Golf after a similar relief bill, passed in the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, excluded golf – along with massage parlors, tanning salons and liquor stores – from receiving such aid.

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