Coinciding with World Environment Day (June 5), leading golf magazine Today’s Golfer is publishing the first ever Top 100 Greenest Golf Course in Europe list.
In association with GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf, the international not-for-profit founded to strengthen and promote golf’s social and environmental value, ‘The Green 100’ provides an important opportunity to promote some of Europe’s most environmentally conscious and socially responsible golf courses.
Profiling clubs that are working to deliver fantastic golf whilst also caring for their local landscapes and biodiversity, actively strengthening their communities and taking action to reduce adverse climate impacts, the list is a celebration of the success stories that golfers should be proud of.
The list features UK-based courses including (but not limited to):
- Auchterarder in Perthshire, Scotland
- Burnham & Berrow in Somerset, England
- Sunningdale in Surrey, England
- Belvoir Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Royal St David’s in Harlech, Wales
Chris Bertram, Top 100 Editor, said: “Golf’s environmental reputation is often unfairly demonised, but this list highlights the valuable and impressive sustainable efforts that are taking place across Europe. Published to coincide with World Environment Day, I want this ranking to demonstrate that golf is a sport with an ecological conscience, and that there are hundreds of ingenious ways clubs are making a real difference. Recognition as a World Top 100 course or a GB&I Top 100 course is a great honour, but being recognised as a Top 100 ‘Green’ club is, in my view, even more impressive.”
Published alongside columns written by Sir Nick Faldo, Suzann Pettersen and course designer David McKlay Kidd, the full ranking can be found in Today’s Golfer’s latest issue, which is out on June 8.
The list will be accompanied by a live online event on June 6 where Editor Chris Bertram and UKGolfGuy David Jones will be revealing the secrets of the Top 100 Courses rankings.