Butterfly Golf concept inspires Cuatro Ciénegas design

06 Oct 2022

Butterfly Golf concept inspires Cuatro Ciénegas design

 

A partnership between GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf and Desértica Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico, has been formed to work with Pizá Golf to create one of the world’s most inspiring places to visit and play golf. 

Situated close to the UNESCO biosphere reserve the golf course seeks to demonstrate innovative thinking to create a golf course that not only respects its very special natural surrounds, but also will inspire and instigate a wind of positive change in the region – and in time across the globe. 

Pizá Golf will implement its Butterfly Golf concept at Cuatro Ciénegas. The concept lays outs four loops of six holes, providing 24 holes in total. This allows a great degree of flexibility in the course set up, playing options, maintenance practices and diversity in a selected 18-holes layout on any given day. This concept, inspired by the Butterfly Effect, is also being employed by Pizá Golf in other projects located in Europe. Proving that “more is less” with this sustainable innovative design concept.

“We are very excited about this idea and seeing it put into play at the very special location of Cuatro Ciénegas. Once we’d walked through the concept of ‘the butterfly golf’ a few times with the Pizá Golf team, it became more and more evident to us the multiple benefits there were to be had. This was more with less in a way that we had not seen in a golf development before,” said Sam Thomas, Sustainable Golf – Developments Director at GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf.

“A sustainable and responsible project begins by creating a dialogue, in harmony with nature,” commented Agustin Pizá - Founder Pizá Golf. “We are excited to have our client commit to the project on all levels. It’s a sensitive place which deserves multiple layers of expertise. Having GEO on our side of the world gives us peace of mind from design implementation all the way to the execution and perpetual maintenance. We take our work very seriously when it comes to respecting nature with innovative architecture.”

To find out more about Sustainable Golf Week and GEO Foundation and how to get involved, visit sustainable.golf/sustainablegolfweek or follow @sustainablegolf on social media.

 

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