Applications are now open for an award which recognises the good environmental practice of UK golf courses, the STRI’s 2012 ‘Golf Environment Awards’.
There are 11 awards are split across three categories:
Environmental Improvement (Nature conservation management / Turfgrass management / Waste management /Water management.)
Environmental Achievement
Five regional awards and one overall winner award recognising golf courses that have implemented a successful environmental management strategy, with clear objectives and targets on how this strategy will directly contribute to a better environment.
Conservation Greenkeeper which will recognise an outstanding individual contribution to the success of environmental and ecological management.
Full details are here on the Golf Environment Awards website
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