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Our Principles

Golf clubs have a vital role to play as we move to a greener, low carbon society. 

Clubs have the opportunity to show the way:

– by managing their land to protect and enhance biodiversity
– by reducing energy consumption
– by minimising waste and the use of plastic
– by reducing pollution and chemical usage

Aiming for zero carbon emissions is a reasonable and necessary goal.

Golf should work to support and be part of local communities.

Clubs can be key players in persuading and educating existing and future players about the importance of environmental issues.

Greenergolf

Our Principles

Golf clubs have a vital role to play as we move to a greener, low carbon society. 

Clubs have the opportunity to show the way:

– by managing their land to protect and enhance biodiversity
– by reducing energy consumption
– by minimising waste and the use of plastic
– by reducing pollution and chemical usage

Aiming for zero carbon emissions is a reasonable and necessary goal.

Golf should work to support and be part of local communities.

Clubs can be key players in persuading and educating existing and future players about the importance of environmental issues.

UTILITYWORKS IS NOW A PARTNER OF GREENERGOLF

Our partnership with Utilityworks is here to help you navigate energy market challenges, reduce rising costs, and guide you on your journey to sustainability.

Find out how our partnership with Utilityworks can support your sustainability journey and reduce energy costs.

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Why Is Our Work Important? Background (Desktop)Why Is Our Work Important? UnderlayWHY IS OUR WORKI M P O R T A N T ?WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR GOLF CLUBS?Climate change and biodiversity loss are arguably two of the most serious challenges that the world and humanity face today.

The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, with 1 in 6 species now at threat from extinction.

We are experiencing more intense, more frequent extreme weather events such heatwaves and flooding; all caused by a warming planet.

Economies are changing. In the UK we’re in the midst of a transition to Net Zero by 2050. This means huge shifts in the way people do business, what energy they use, what cars they drive and what they eat.Golf clubs are dealing with these pressures on a regular basis, and having to find ways to adapt to the changing world.

They also have a role to play in helping to solve this crisis, ensuring their long-term viability as businesses, while still contributing to the physical and mental health and wellbeing of their membership.

Golf clubs are collectively the third largest landowner in the country, connecting a wide range of vital ecosystems and habitats. They can help nature on a landscape-scale by providing:
• Healthy soils
• Flood alleviation
• Pollination of food crops
• Habitats for a wide range of biodiversity

Our golf clubs can lead the way by reviewing their energy requirements, source locally grown food and support other local businesses and install electric travel infrastructure to future-proof for the net zero transition that we know is coming.

The Greener Golf Network is here to help

Our aim is to influence and signpost golf clubs to resources so that they can lower their carbon footprint, reduce water and energy requirements and increase biodiversity on their own land to benefit the wider landscape.Call-to-Action Button (Right)

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Why Is Our Work Important? Background (Desktop)Why Is Our Work Important? UnderlayWHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR GOLF CLUBS?WHY IS OUR WORKI M P O R T A N T ?

Climate change and biodiversity loss are arguably two of the most serious challenges that the world and humanity face today.

The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, with 1 in 6 species now at threat from extinction.

We are experiencing more intense, more frequent extreme weather events such heatwaves and flooding; all caused by a warming planet.

Economies are changing. In the UK we’re in the midst of a transition to Net Zero by 2050. This means huge shifts in the way people do business, what energy they use, what cars they drive and what they eat.

Golf clubs are dealing with these pressures on a regular basis, and having to find ways to adapt to the changing world.

They also have a role to play in helping to solve this crisis, ensuring their long-term viability as businesses, while still contributing to the physical and mental health and wellbeing of their membership.

Golf clubs are collectively the third largest landowner in the country, connecting a wide range of vital ecosystems and habitats. They can help nature on a landscape-scale by providing:
• Healthy soils
• Flood alleviation
• Pollination of food crops
• Habitats for a wide range of biodiversity

Our golf clubs can lead the way by reviewing their energy requirements, source locally grown food and support other local businesses and install electric travel infrastructure to future-proof for the net zero transition that we know is coming.

The Greener Golf Network is here to help

Our aim is to influence and signpost golf clubs to resources so that they can lower their carbon footprint, reduce water and energy requirements and increase biodiversity on their own land to benefit the wider landscape.

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Our  Values

The Greenergolf website is committed to being:

Our  Values

The Greenergolf website is committed to being:

OpenTrustedInclusiveCollaborative

This website is the property of a limited liability company – GreenerGolf Network Ltd.

The company’s registered number is 14003715.

The company started life as Greenergolf Ltd., an umbrella body for the website – launched in March 2022. The website was originally sponsored by Calum Cameron, a golf member at Market Harborough GC. However, in order to establish greater accountability, coherence and sustainability, the company has taken on the organisation of activities and events formerly run by the Planning Group of the Leicestershire and Rutland Greener Golf Group. The volunteer members of the planning group are now directors of the newly-named company.

There are currently five directors: Bob Roberts (Market Harborough GC), Peter Hartley (Cockermouth GC), Jim Jacobs (from Market Harborough GC), Pam Rogerson (from Market Harborough GC), and Janet Hartley Byng (Ullesthorpe Court).

The company is purely Not-For-Profit.  Any income generated through commercial partnerships will be ploughed back into supporting the website and our activities.

The directors can be contacted via the email address on the website. Accounts will be drawn up by registered accountants and will be available according to Company House and HMRC regulations.

Since the project began we have used various means of communicating with Leicestershire and Rutland golf clubs. We continue to send out regular information, newsletters and invitations to events of all kinds.

In July 2024 we established a smaller Advisory Group. The group is an additional way by which we are determined to be open and accountable. The group will provide advice and comments, and receive financial reports.

Click here to see the list of current members

As a public limited company we are obliged to report to Companies House and to HMRC. Almost all of the funding we have received to date has been from voluntary donation and private sponsorship. We do not ‘trade’ at all. We operate no membership fee. We do have a number of links and arrangements with commercial companies. In some cases, the aim is for us to derive some income from these arrangements; in other cases, we are providing links for the companies because we endorse the environmental aims on which they are based.

We strive to be as inclusive as possible.

In the first years of the project, all the golf clubs in our local area (Leicestershire and Rutland) were consistently contacted, updated, and invited to events. This remains the case.

As the project has begun to spread, new Greener Golf groups have begun to share our logo, website and newsletter. As long as we feel the groups are embracing our principles and values, we welcome them as colleagues under the Greener Golf banner. Each county group will operate in its own way, running its own activities and forging its own relationships with other agencies and public bodies.

Visitors to the website will see that our NEWS section is now divided into different areas of interest: the Network overall, and the different county groups.

From the outset any golf club has been welcome to send material in for us to publish, both to celebrate their achievements and to inspire and inform other clubs. This remains the case. We welcome contributions to our LIBRARY, our GALLERY, and our collection of CASE STUDIES. All this material is available for downloading. (We reserve the right to not use or publish what we are offered.)

The GreenerGolf Network is so-named because we aim to collaborate. We hope to be collaborative in several ways.

Firstly, with the greatest respect, golf clubs tend to be insular institutions and preoccupied by issues to do with membership, staffing and finance. Collaboration with other clubs, other than to arrange the fixture list, is rare. Other clubs tend to be, essentially, rivals.

One of our aspirations is to challenge this mindset, at least with respect to environmental issues. We hope to encourage and enable clubs to share ideas, problems and solutions, to work together for the common good of a healthier planet.

Secondly, since we began the project we have set out to collaborate with a range of golfing and environmental agencies. Foremost among these have been  ENGLAND GOLF, with their new investment in sustainability golf. Since the outset England Golf officers have supported the project .  It was natural also that we should work closely with an environment agency with similar county-based structures: the wildlife trusts. Golf clubs in our area have worked closely with staff from the local (Leicestershire and Rutland) wildlife trust, and they have become close ‘partners’ as we support them with their 30 x 30 goals (See the link on our site). As our project spreads, we are encouraging new county groups to develop their own networks, under the umbrella of the GGN, and partnership arrangements with their local wildlife where possible.

Material sent to us about sustainability and environmental work done at golf clubs around the country is shared here on the site.

Interest in our website has led to the development of partnership arrangements with a small, but growing, number of commercial bodies. We have been happy to collaborate with partners such as these, which are all seeking to support golf in moving towards greater sustainability.

Sustainability Is More Than Solar

This week I had the pleasure of being invited by England Golf to speak at a sustainability event held alongside the English Senior Women’s Championship.
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THE UNIQUE ECOLOGY OF LUFFENHAM HEATH GOLF CLUB

I guess the main aim and objective of this feature was to introduce you to some of the most interesting hawthorn trees I have ever had the pleasure to hug, from a safe distance obviously as they are quite thorny, hence the name.
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Apple Picking and Bottling – Shirley Golf Course Apple Juice

This year has been a bumper year for fruits and nuts country wide and Shirley Golf Course is blessed with a huge number of apple trees throughout the course. The trees were absolutely laden with apples of all varieties.
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Rewilding our Academy Area Hawarden GC

Five years ago our club, Hawarden GC, in North East Wales, lacked members and was precariously underfunded. In 2025 the Club won the prestigious “Welsh Golf Club of the Year”, awarded by Wales Golf. Many ingredients contributed to this turnaround in fortunes but one essential feature has been the Club’s environmental record.
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Building Beehives at Shirley GC

Shirley GC in Warwickshire have started a new project on their path to sustainability and the ladies have started building their own Warré Beehives. “The hives are really expensive to buy, as it’s a more unusual hive type - not as readily available as some of the conventional hives. So we thought, perhaps we could build our own and save some money,” Wenke Gold explains.
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Reducing Chemicals through Data Collection

After one of our bi-yearly tree audits, several trees were identified as dangerous and therefore needed to be felled. This, and the collection of several old pallets, had left us with wood in need of re-purposing. As a result, the Redbourn Golf Club’s maintenance crew set out to find the best way to utilize the remaining wood.
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Wood You Believe It? Up-Cycle Project

After one of our bi-yearly tree audits, several trees were identified as dangerous and therefore needed to be felled. This, and the collection of several old pallets, had left us with wood in need of re-purposing. As a result, the Redbourn Golf Club’s maintenance crew set out to find the best way to utilize the remaining wood.
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The Woodland Cup: A New Trophy Highlighting Sustainability at Nevill Golf Club

Nevill Golf Club in Tunbridge Wells is an example of a club taking sustainability seriously and doing it in innovative ways. The Woodland Cup is a new trophy competition there, now in its second year. The competition is organised by the Nevill’s Sustainability Sub-Committee and is aimed at promoting sustainability to members.
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Baby Tawny Owl Release at the Nevill Golf Club

Nevill Golf Club in Tunbridge Wells is an example of a club taking sustainability seriously and doing it in innovative ways. As part of an ongoing relationship between the golf club and the rescue centre, five gorgeous baby tawny owls were released on the golf course in September this year (2024).
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