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How the Most Sustainable Golf Facility in Vietnam Plans to Spread Its Impact: Might this model apply in the US?
Little known to the Western World, Laguna Lăng Cô Golf Club of Vietnam represents a leading example of sustainable and even regenerative golf design. This “edible” golf design of Nick Faldo and Paul Jansen restored 5 hectares of fallow rice paddy in its conception.
Active Giving - The Health and Fitness App That Gives Back
Active Giving is a free health and fitness mobile app that tracks and converts your physical activity into contributions to social and environmental projects.
Who is Responsible for the Sustainable Golf Movement?
Who is responsible for the sustainability movement in golf? We look at four key industry stakeholders in an effort to better understand why each one does or does not push for sustainability and how they may better position themselves to do so.
Single-Use Plastics, Recycling and the Golf Industry
Plastic is everywhere and it’s pretty much here forever, at least compared to our mortal bodies. So how can the golf industry do its part to end its reliance on single-use plastics? Thus begins our deep dive into the relationship between single-use plastics, recycling and the golf industry.
A TOUR-wide mission
In the game of golf, there is no brighter stage than a PGA TOUR tournament and sustainability has become a more integral part of TOUR events in the past decade.
The “Short and Sweet” of Golf and Sustainability
Paul Jansen describes the keys to golf design as one might describe the keys to a great golf swing: less manipulation -- and more simplicity -- generally produces better results. If the goals of golf design include creating simplicity and variety, then following nature is perhaps one’s safest bet.
A Game to Help People (and the Planet?) Live Longer
If we could immediately solve just one of the United Nations’ seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, what would that be? Data suggest that golf might already contribute to solving the most important goal: Good Health and Well-Being.
Sky Sports Sets Broadcasting Precedent, Will the Golf Channel Follow?
In the United States, the game of golf is among the most popular recreational activities and the industry itself is a key contributor to the economy, providing almost 2 million jobs. But on the heels of a pandemic boom in participation, the sport has an opportunity to become more than a recreational escape. Rather golf has the platform to become a leading advocate of the sports sustainability movement seeking to mitigate the effects of global climate change.