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Sustainability Spotlight: The PGA Works Program
The PGA of America is one of golf’s biggest and oldest governing bodies and with over 29,000 worldwide members (about 23,000 in the US) who manage and operate golf courses while growing participation in the game. However, of the 29,000 members, fewer than 10% of them are women and less than 1% are African American. In this issue of Sustainability Spotlight series, we dive into the PGA of America’s initiatives to build a more diverse and inclusive golf professional workforce.
Sustainability Spotlight: National Links Trust Materiality Assessment
Municipal golf can become an inspiring cornerstone of how municipalities meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. In the latest edition of our Sustainability Spotlight Series, we are excited to share the process, results and methodology behind the National Links Trust’s first materiality assessment and stakeholder survey, and how we used the UN SDG framework to prioritize NLT’s current and future sustainable development programs in Washington, D.C.
Sustainability Spotlight: EcoAthlete Inja Fric
Inja Fric is a rising senior on the NC State Women’s Golf Team. She is also an EcoAthlete and leader of the NC State student-athlete sustainability group. We invited her to share her sustainability story and how she is working to make a difference in her community.
Sustainability Spotlight: The 122nd U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.
The U.S. Open is America’s oldest golf championship and operated by America’s oldest governing golf body, the United States Golf Association. It is usually one of, if not THE, toughest tests of golf each year and features 156 of the best golf professionals and amateurs in the world. For our next installment in our Sustainability Spotlight series, we examine America’s national golf championship from our Driving the Green perspective and shed some light on the great things going on behind the scenes at this year’s tournament as well as some of the amazing golf history that has taken place at the host golf course.
Sustainability Spotlight: Callaway Golf Company's Inaugural Sustainability Report
Callaway Golf Company, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of golf equipment, apparel and entertainment, produced their first ever 2021 Sustainability Report two months ago. For the next installment of our Sustainability Spotlight Series, we dive into that report and offer our Driving the Green takes on what we would like to see in future reports.
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’.
Sustainability Spotlight - The 43rd Ryder Cup @ Whistling Straits
Nothing stokes the fire within a sports fan’s heart more than playing against a rival, where every aspect of the game is magnified by the added desire to not just win, but to beat the snot out of your opponent. For this edition of the Sustainability Spotlight, we turn our attention to focus on the sustainability issues involved in golf’s biggest rivalry, the Ryder Cup.
Sustainability Spotlight - PGA TOUR FedExCup Playoffs
Over the next three weeks, the PGA TOUR 2020-21 season will come to a close with the postseason tournament series known as the FedExCup Playoffs. So for the next installment of our Sustainability Spotlight series, we shed light on and dive into the sustainability successes and struggles of each of the three tournaments within this end of the year playoff series.
Sustainability Spotlight - Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games - Golf Competition
With the 2021 Open Championship written in the record books, the golf world’s focus begins to shift to the Far East as Kasumigaseki Country Club prepares to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Golf Competition. In this sustainability spotlight, we examine the championship from a sustainability lens and a summary of who’s playing (let’s go Team USA!) and how they got there.