Background
Golf events offer the opportunity to raise awareness of environmental issues and how they relate to golf. As the most high profile of the golf sector's activities, golf events can provide an important vehicle to communicate the sector's environmental responsibility to a large audience. stewardship within golf.

Given that major events can consume significant quantities of resources, can generate large volumes of traffic and associated congestion and pollution, and can cause temporary disturbance to local ecosystems, there has been a growing awareness within the event management industry of the need for reviewing and minimising potential environmental impacts.

Organisers of golf events can relatively easily integrate environmental practices into the planning and operation of the events. In many cases such an approach will open up new and more efficient ways of dealing with specific issues such as waste management, transport and site protection.

At selected high profile events, such as the Ryder Cup, World Championships and top European Tour events, it is proposed to implement environmental action plans which will cover the environmental management of the host venue, the overlay of the golf event, and a communications programme to raise awareness of the environmental initiatives and partnership working.