GEO Foundation and BIGGA launch Sustainable Golf Highlight of the Month competition

20 Jan 2022

GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf and BIGGA team up to launch Highlight of the Month Competition

 

A new celebration of sustainable golf innovation has launched to help inspire more greenkeepers to share their successes.

Sustainable Golf Highlight of the Month showcases real-life examples of sustainable practices from courses around the world and gives people the chance to vote for their favourites. 

GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf and the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) teamed up on the monthly competition to help showcase ideas from grassroots community clubs to large tournament venues and inspire more and more people to get involved. 

Three finalists are selected every month, sharing work in one of three sustainability areas - nature, resources and community. Followers then have the opportunity to crown a winner by voting for their favourite on social media.

Jamie Graham, Communications Manager, GEO Foundation, said: “We’re always looking for new ways to celebrate the great sustainability work being done on golf courses worldwide and we’re delighted to partner with BIGGA on this initiative. Golf can bring so much value to nature and people and it’s exciting to get more greenkeepers sharing ideas and telling that story.”

Over 1,200 proven examples are already available in the Highlights Hub. Any golf facility can enter by sharing a Sustainable Golf Highlight before the end of each month with an easy-to-use tool. Examples can be easily filtered by topic or country. Get involved today!

GEO Foundation held a Sustainable Golf Highlight of the Year competition at the close of 2021, with GEO Certified Minthis Golf Club in Cyprus winning the title. Their story described how birds' nests are hidden in irrigation boxes to keep them and their chicks undisturbed by golfers.

The Cypriot club narrowly beat Glenelg Golf Club in Australia in the final. Glenelg invited diners to ‘eat their way around the course’ by sampling edible indigenous plants and learning about sustainable agriculture.

Follow Sustainable Golf on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn to see more highlights and updates from the sustainable golf community. And don’t forget to cast your vote.

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