SUSTAINABLE GOLF SHORTLISTED FOR SPORT INDUSTRY AWARD

Last year’s sustainability drive through Scotland’s summer of golf, coordinated by the GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf in partnership with VisitScotland, has been recognised by the prestigious FEVO Sport Industry Awards.

The GEO Foundation is a partner to the LET and our sustainability initiative ‘Celebrating the Green presented by Dow’ aims to recognise and promote great sustainable work being done by the Ladies European Tour community, while Dow is also the LET’s Official Sustainability Resource Partner in conjunction with the LPGA Tour.

This multi stakeholder project, which encompassed six professional events in Scotland last year, has been shortlisted for the Environmental Sustainably Award reflecting the environmental and social impacts delivered across the Home of Golf.

The FEVO Sport Industry Awards celebrates the immense work done around the sector, whether it’s delivering world-leading events, or using sport as a platform to drive social change, to those campaigns that have an ingenious creative spark which reverberates throughout the industry and beyond.

The Environmental Sustainably Award in association with CSM Live acknowledges a programme or campaign focused on driving sustainable practices to deliver environmental benefits through sport. The VisitScotland – Sustainable Golf project has been shortlisted alongside Formula E, Sail GP, Sky Sports, Southampton Football Club and Manchester City Football Club. The award ceremony will take place in April.

Scotland was the centrepiece of sustainable golf in 2022 with two Majors – The 150^th Open and AIG Women’s Open – alongside the Genesis Scottish Open, Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open, Senior Open presented by Rolex and Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. 

The project enabled event organisers across The R&A, European Tour Group, PGA Tour, Ladies European Tour, LPGA, IMG, Richemont Events and Scottish Golf, to deliver a consistent approach and united efforts across venues, staging, legacies and communications, with activities integrating climate action, circular economy, social value and promotion of nature in their events.

Tournament owners, promoters, venues and media all embraced sustainability – showing how Scotland, the Home of Golf, is driving sustainable golf, set against the backdrop of Scotland’s stunning natural landscapes and ecosystems 

Paul Bush OBE, Director of Events at VisitScotland, said: “We all recognise the importance of protecting our…