TESTING TIMES - SUSTAINABILITY ANYONE?


Manager it is my responsibility to relay this message to my members.


How we made our first step?


Well, I am lucky to have a good team around me and teamwork is very important. Everyone at the club needs to be involved and well informed; all the greenkeeping staff, committee, our STRI consultant agronomist, ecologist, architect, golf professional - everyone is supportive in our quest. But we needed more than support, we needed to:


• Benchmark the course


• Produce an action plan • Gather support and consistency


• Communicate, communicate and communicate


• Document evidence and produce policy documents


• Create the right environment The Ginger Bread Men


I also have the invaluable support of ‘The Gingerbread Men’. I realise some disapprove but, hopefully, I can alleviate some of your concerns and you will have


a little more appreciation of our group. Better still, maybe start your own networking group. Firstly, we are a bunch of humble


greenkeepers who are networking together, helping each other, supporting each other and, indeed, ‘striving’ for a more sustainable/traditional/natural (call it what you like) golf course. We do this with the backing from the R&A and our home unions. This has been published as ‘bad news for golf ’, but I strongly disagree, and this is why. Greenkeeping is a lonely place at times. The fact that greenkeepers are


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