This year’s Sustainable Golf Week is set to take place between 11 and 15 November, providing a chance for people and organisations across the sport to celebrate the good that golf does in society.
This year, the week spotlights another key aspect of golf’s responsibility and its value in sustainable development, focussing on how golf serves, supports and strengthens communities.
With previous editions of the virtual event exploring other priority topics such as climate (#DrivingNetZero) and nature (#BetterwithNature), for 2024 the emphasis is on #GolfforCommunities.
Jonathan Smith, Executive Director of GEO Sustainable Golf Foundation – the international non-profit that helps facilitate and coordinate the week said:
"Golf is not just a game. It’s a sector with the power to make a real difference in people’s lives. Serving and supporting people from a wide diversity of ages, backgrounds, and cultures in a wide variety of ways - that are often not well recognised.
When it comes to sustainability, where equity is a central pillar, it’s not only about saving the planet, it’s about giving everyone a fair shot. And as much as golf gives people access to healthy lifestyles in fresh air and nature, there’s still open space for the sport to benefit more people in more ways.”
During the week content will cover various ways golf can and already does, contribute to society, including touch points on:
• Lifelong health, wellbeing and social interaction
• Employment, investment and skilled careers
• Volunteering and lifelong education
• Community outreach and charitable initiatives
• Multi-functional use of land
• Local environmental protection, nature restoration and nature-based solutions
• Influence in low carbon, nature rich and circular economies; and
• Golf as a source of inspiration for billions of people.
