One of Portmore’s primary goals is to manage the facility in harmony with the environment that surrounds them. Colin and Josh recognise that everything they do has a direct impact on the environment, and analyse every possible option before they make a decision on how to move forward as a club. Over the last five years, they have made significant efforts to promote this mind set, resulting in a number of projects being successfully completed which, in turn, has enhanced the species biodiversity on site and improved the ecological value of the golf courses, allowing a large number of flora and fauna to thrive.


Although it has not been incorporated or analysed in this year’s environmental


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competition, the Portmore team feel they have achieved just as much in the clubhouse as they have on the golf course.


As Colin became more and more involved in sustainable golf club management, he began to wonder about the size of the carbon footprint across the whole site, from the course to the clubhouse and even his own home. In 2009, he contacted Envision, a South West environmental programme that helped small businesses with their resource efficiency. After an assessment, they told him that the club’s annual carbon footprint amounted to 84.98 tonnes. “But, I didn’t know if this was good or bad,” says Colin. “Then I heard


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that the British Open Golf tournament alone generated in excess of ten times this amount in just one week. But, I still decided to set a target of getting our footprint down to twenty tonnes in five years.”


Colin’s focus was on a number of areas around the club, including rainwater harvesting to wash range balls and flush toilets, providing recycling bins, replacing old light bulbs with low-energy ones, fitting sensors to all rooms and 24- hour timers to any electrical device that didn’t need 24-hour use.


Here, the clubhouse deserves a special mention. It has been constructed using seven portacabins, although you would never know it until the cleverly disguised


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