Loch Lomond wins eco award
By Alistair Dunsmuir
Loch Lomond Golf Club in Scotland has won the ‘Overall Achievement Award’ at the STRI’s Golf Environment Awards 2011. The club achieved exemplary results in the key performance areas of nature conservation, waste management, water management and turfgrass management.
David Cole, the golf course and estate manager at Loch Lomond, commented: “The team at Loch Lomond Golf Club is thrilled to receive this most prestigious award. It’s great to be recognised by STRI for our efforts in achieving best practice in the environment and to receive the overall UK award makes us very proud. The club aspires to be at the forefront of environment management and this award is testament to the sheer commitment and passion shown by the entire team towards achieving this goal.”
“Loch Lomond Golf Club validates how environmental sustainability and outstanding aesthetics can work together hand-in-hand,” said an STRI spokeswoman.
Elsewhere, the ‘Conservation Greenkeeper of the Year Award’ was won by Antony Wainwright, assistant head greenkeeper at Turton Golf Club, due to his passion to develop an effective environmental management plan and his successful engagement of the club’s members to help achieve their objectives.
Antony commented: “This award helps to raise the profile of Turton Golf Club within the golfing industry and the local community. I believe all golf clubs should play a vital role in helping to reverse the trend of our declining species and important habitats and I’m extremely happy that the Golf Environment Awards recognises some of the ecological achievements made by golf clubs throughout the UK.”
The Golf Environment Awards highlight the ‘greener’ golf clubs in the UK and showcase the creative projects they are implementing that both enhance their golf course and have a positive impact on the environment.
They are supported and sponsored by turf care equipment companies Ransomes Jacobsen and Campey Turf Care Systems, turf company County Turf, fertiliser and plant protection company Everris, seed and plant protection company Syngenta and media sponsors Golf Monthly and Greenkeeping magazine.
2011 Award Winners
Overall Achievement Award
Loch Lomond Golf Club
Conservation Greenkeeper of the Year Award
Antony Wainwright, Turton Golf Club
Scottish Regional Award
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club
Northern Regional Award
Wilmslow Golf Club
Welsh Regional Award
Bull Bay Golf Club
Southern Regional Award
Thorpeness Golf Club
Nature Conservation Award
The Manchester Golf Club
Turfgrass Management Award
Aldeburgh Golf Club
Waste Management Award
New Malton Golf Club
Water Management Award
Lymm Golf Club
By Alistair Dunsmuir
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