Tue Aug 24 2010Golf's future - Real Environmental impacts
The great game of golf has enjoyed a relatively quiet, yet hard-earned industry-wide reputation for environmental stewardship. Through the foresight and hard work of organizations like the Center for Resource Management, Audubon International, the Royal and Ancient’s Best Practices for Golf and the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America’s Environmental Institute for Golf, the game has been largely left to its own devices to manage its impacts. It was this very fact – the golf industry’s self examination – that first drew me to golf course environmental management. It is one thing to do stuff because a government agency was breathing down your neck and watching everything you do. It is a another thing completely when an entire multi-billion dollar international business conducts a critical assessment and actually reveals all of the bad news about itself to everyone!
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