Chris Valauri, lobbyist for the N.C. Golf Alliance; Caleb Miles, president and CEO of the Pinehurst Southern Pines Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau; and Del Ratcliffe, president of the N.C. Golf Course Owners Association, highlight golf’s impact in North Carolina. They offered these comments during a Dec. 8, 2014, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.