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Becoming a Sustainability Champion
This article highlights a few guiding principles that golf club managers and superintendents as well as others in the industry should consider when discussing their sustainability efforts.
LIV Golf Miami Recap
Andre describes his general sense impressions of LIV Miami: what he witnessed, saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and touched at the LIV Golf Miami event in October. As a no-cut exhibition event, LIV may lack in sporting drama on the course, but it certainly makes up for it in spectacle (and drama provided off the course). It engages the senses with plenty of spectacle. Andre also gives a short playbook of possibilities for the competing tours to take advantage of sustainable innovation opportunities.
Is a “Civil War” Developing in Pro Golf?
Thanks to $2.4 billion of Saudi-backed funding, LIV Golf has already disrupted the PGA Tour. This article explores the founding, funding, format, and future of the new golf tour, along with how it might co-exist with the PGA Tour and “traditional” golf.
Sustainability Spotlight: The 150th Open Championship at “The Home of Golf”
Andre recaps the 150th Open Championship, sharing its sustainability initiatives along with his experience of The Old Course at Saint Andrews.
It’s Time To Have ‘The (Sustainability) Talk’
Two leaders in the landscape of PGA TOUR sustainability (AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am & WM Phoenix Open) are a great way to kick off the year - but what about the other tours? What about the rest of the year? What about the rest of the country? While many other tournaments continue to lay the groundwork for sustainability internally, from an objective standpoint, many people reading this probably wonder where the push for sustainability is coming from inside the golf industry and how do those conversations begin? What a better time to address this than my first article since attending my first PGA TOUR Meetings.
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.
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.
PGA TOUR Sustainability: Coming out of COVID-19 at the 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
A firsthand account of sustainability on the PGA TOUR during the time of Covid-19 brings optimism as the sports world prepares for the return of fans.
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.