Opening Sustainable Golf seminars draw excellent numbers

 

Nearly 300 golf course superintendents, course staff, golf club management personnel and trade representatives attended the opening two Sustainable Golf Course Management seminars held in Melbourne and Sydney this week. Conducted by The R&A’s director for golf course management Steve Isaac, the workshops provided an insight into the role of The R&A as well as the endeavours of the game’s governing body to make the art of golf course management more sustainable.  More than 127 attended the first workshop at Melbourne’s Sandhurst Club on 8 September, with a further 170 turning out at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on 10 September.

One of Isaac’s key messages was the crucial need for all golf clubs and courses, regardless of whether they were a major metropolitan or country facility, to set course management goals that were realistic in terms of the constraints in which they were operating within (e.g.: environmental conditions, budgets etc…).