A large, influential and high-profile global sport such as golf has a tremendous opportunity, and requirement, to step forward with meaningful collective and collaborative efforts.

Jonathan Smith

Executive Director
GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf

Golf is preserving the natural environment, ecology and biodiversity that is under threat as more and more land is changing from green to concrete, eroding the green spaces essential to life.

Phil Anderton

Chief Development Officer
The R&A

Golfers should look around them when they play a round. To be amazed by the landscape and wildlife is already the first form of action to protect ecosystems.

Sustainable Golf Champion

Camille Chevalier

LET Professional and Sustainable Golf Champion

We recommend everyone to have a look at the GEO programmes because they really help you – the board of directors or the greenkeeping staff – to make your golf course more sustainable.

Jeroen Stevens

Director
Netherlands Golf Federation

As we set out on this Decade of Restoration, it is critical that we protect and expand the natural habitats and ecosystems on our planet. We need everyone in charge of a green space to find a home for nature. Perhaps more than any other sport in the world, golf has a huge opportunity to restore biodiversity to courses. We’ll be watching progress closely.

Sam Barratt

Chief, Youth, Education and Advocacy
The United Nations Environment Programme

As a member of the Board of Swiss Golf, responsible for the Commission Sustainability, I try to convince all golf courses in Switzerland to join the GEO Certification effort, work with politicians and NGOs to have them recognize the importance and contribution of golf towards society.

Jan Driessens

Chairman Golf Courses & Sustainability Committee
Swiss Golf

Our ambition combines sport with Dow’s materials science expertise and knowledge of sustainable operations to reduce the carbon impact of the golf tournaments, innovate next-gen product technology solutions, spark important conversations, and amplify diverse voices in the fight against climate change.

Chris Chandler

Executive Director
Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational and Dow Sports Marketing Solutions

Clubs and courses provide jobs and careers for local people and access for the next generation to learn about the sport and how it and its courses can promote a greener future.

Alistair Beggs

Head of Agronomy
The R&A

GEO is leading the way and has been for some time now. The environment and the landscape is very much what we’re involved with and it’s in everybody’s interest to do our part to support their efforts.

Andy Brown

Senior Sales Manager
Global Business Development and Relationships
The Toro Company

The standards, certification and reporting system that underpins sustainable golf is a leading example amongst Olympic sport, and potentially a very useful model for others to explore.

Julie Duffus

Sustainability Senior Manager
The International Olympic Committee

To maintain and restore the ecological services on which we all depend (think: pollination, clean air, or water storage and supply) it is essential that managers of green spaces in urban and rural areas protect and expand natural habitats to the maximum possible.

Richard Holland

Director of Operations and Network Development
Wetlands International

We are encouraging our clubs and golfers to take pride and ownership in the role that golf can play in society’s wider efforts towards reducing our carbon footprint.

Richard Flint

Chief Operating Officer
England Golf

I’ve visited over 400 courses to advise on the flora, fauna and environmental issues a course may have, and then to guide them towards becoming more sustainable.

James Hutchinson

Membership Services Manager for Sustainability and Ecology
BIGGA