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Driving Sustainable Change in Golf and Hospitality
Kathy Sue McGuire started the first office recycling program in the State of Florida in 1991. For over a decade, Kathy worked for PGA National Resort (home of the Honda Classic). In that same timespan, she founded her consultancy now known as 3 Pillar Solutions, which helps clients meet sustainable development goals while improving efficiencies and making a profit.
Driving the Green Recap: 1st Annual NLT ‘Symposium on Municipal Golf’
The first annual National Links Trust ‘Symposium on Municipal Golf’ was held November 8-9, 2021 in Washington, DC. This exclusive recap discusses the takeaways, obstacles and goals emerging from this inaugural event as the golf industry works hard to preserve and reimagine the possibilities for municipal golf facilities.
Across the Pond: Australia’s First 100% Organic Golf Course
We spoke with Andrew Glen, Superintendent at KDV Sports Complex on the Gold Coast of Australia to learn more about his one-of-a-kind, 100% organic golf course and how to make organic golf scalable across the industry.
Sustainability Spotlight: National Links Trust’s ‘Symposium on Municipal Golf’
In this edition of our Sustainability Spotlight series, I share the story of the National Links Trust, why Municipal Golf is the key to the golf industry’s future and what it's like to assemble a sustainability super squad for the NLT’s ‘Symposium on Municipal Golf’.
A Call for Co-Operation: How Golf’s Equipment Manufacturers Can Save Municipal Golf… and Themselves!
Golf's equipment manufacturers spend roughly $3B combined on selling-related activities (a simple projection based on publicly available financial data). What if they all agreed to reallocate just 1% (still a whopping $30M) toward investing in golf's future? This article highlights both why and how that should happen.
Diving Deep with Award-Winning Golf Architect, Philosopher, and “Interpreter of Nature”, Agustín “Auggie” Pizá
We recently connected with Agustín Pizá, world-renowned and award-winning golf course architect. He’s a heart full of fire and passion, unafraid to put some soul into his work. He also has a head full of knowledge, expertise, and ideas, so we considered ourselves fortunate to pick his brain on topics like the accessibility of golf, oneness with nature, and the future of the game.
Beemats: Healing Golf Course Ponds and Lakes through Floating Wetlands
“Beemats” – also referred to as “floating wetlands” – are a bio-mimicking technology that cleans polluted bodies of water by taking excess nutrients that seep into ponds and lakes and turns them into harvestable crops or biomass. What are the benefits, costs and how might this technology transform golf course sustainability?
Seven Surprising Solutions for Golf’s Water Usage
For the foreseeable future, golf courses will face increasing pressure on reducing the usage of water (especially freshwater), maximizing the efficiency of land use, and building resilience for drought and flooding (as a result of increasingly irregular weather patterns). Here are seven surprising solutions to reframe those challenges through exciting design opportunities.
Setting the Par with the “Greenest Show on Grass”
The golf industry need not look further than the first tee to find one of the world’s leading sustainability champions, the PGA TOUR’s WM Phoenix Open. Recognized as one of the five oldest tournaments on the TOUR (the first Phoenix Open was in 1932) and annual host to over 700,000 fans, title sponsor WM has led the Phoenix Open to be the world’s largest zero waste event.
Bee the Change - An Earth Day 2021 Special Report
At least 35% of the food we eat is directly dependent on the pollination services of bees. With their numbers in decline, might a symbiotic relationship with golf be the change needed to restore their numbers?