Sponsors

The sponsors of the Golf Environment Awards form an integral part of the team involved in developing and promoting the awards and the winning clubs.

Many companies today are looking to support sustainable developments to provide a better future for our environment. The sponsors of the Golf Environment Awards continually demonstrate their commitment to supporting and promoting proven sustainable projects within golf clubs that make a real difference.

Each of our sponsors takes an active role in stimulating and achieving environmental change for the better.

Ambassador

Justin Rose

We are delighted that Justin Rose has established his full support of the awards by becoming an official Ambassador of the Awards. Having the backing of a high profile figure within the golf industry is invaluable; as it shows the importance of environmental issues is recognised at the very top of the game.

Speaking about his appointment, Justin says, “I am honoured to become an ambassador for the STRI Golf Environment Awards. It’s great that these Awards are helping to promote and highlight the work that many golf clubs are performing to improve the environment and support a positive future for golf within the UK.

I'm looking forward to meeting the 2009 winners of the Awards at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in May2010 and hearing why their specific projects have been so successful.

We need to do more to highlight how golf clubs can introduce their own environmental projects and shout out about the achievement and success of current schemes”.

Sponsors

Campey Turf Care Systems

Campey Turf Care Systems is delighted to be a sponsor for the Golf Environment Awards. As one of the largest independent suppliers of quality turf maintenance equipment in Europe, Campey Turf Care Systems is committed to the ethos that sound cultural practice is the right way to maintain healthy turf. We work closely with professional bodies such as the STRI to provide advice and support to greenkeepers, coupled with the right machinery to implement the recommended methods. The awards are an excellent way of encouraging and rewarding best practice in golf course management.

County Turf

County Turf is delighted to be sponsoring the 2010 Golf Environment Awards. They encourage people to think about turf on a golf course, and to understand, that although playability is the primary consideration, that the turf is hugely beneficial to the environment; it provides a beautiful surface to play on, is an important source of oxygen, absorbs harmful carbon dioxide and other pollutants from the atmosphere, prevents soil erosion, absorbs noise, helps purify water and has a cooling effect in the summer.

Ransomes Jacobsen

Ransomes Jacobsen Ltd are renowned as the premier manufacturer of quality turfcare equipment and vehicles. The range includes Jacobsen mowers and turf maintenance equipment, which are the first choice of many leading championship golf courses around the world; local authorities, sports facilities and contractors choose Ransomes as their preferred supplier; E-Z-GO golf cars and industrial vehicles and Iseki compact tractors and ride-on mowers compliment the range. Ransomes Jacobsen show true commitment to the environment being the only turfcare equipment manufacturer with ISO 14001 accreditation. We are proud to sponsor and support the Golf Course Environment Awards.

Scotts

As a global leader in horticulture and manufacturer of fertilizers and control products for the amenity market, The Scotts Company is acutely aware of its corporate responsibility for environment protection and takes positive, proactive measures to ensure complete compliance for all of its processes, business activities and products.

Scotts is a world leader in the supply of slow release and controlled release fertilizers. Controlled release technology enables all turf professionals to maintain their surfaces in an environmentally responsible manner. Scotts' research and development teams are continually working on the development of new technologies to improve the environmental profile of its products without reducing their efficacy. Key to the safety of all products is the way they are used. The Scotts Company's Technical Area Sales Managers advocate best practice on the use of fertilizers; 'right product, right rate, right time, right place', and offer an advisory and soil testing service prior to recommending products. Because those products are at the forefront of fertilizer technology, the company is committed to the ongoing education of end-users and is a major sponsor of educational provision for turf and amenity professionals.

Syngenta

Syngenta is proud to continue its long term support of the Golf Course Environment Awards. The awards mirror Syngenta’s proactive approach towards golf and the environment and clearly demonstrate best practice in delivering a balanced approach to the management of the course and the improvement of surrounding wildlife habitats. 

Media Sponsors

Golf Monthly

Golf Monthly was proud to become a sponsor of the Golf Course Environment Awards in 2009. Since the magazine’s inception in 1911, the subject of golf courses, their design and maintenance has always been a mainstay of the magazine. Golf Monthly’s support of the awards is a natural extension to our coverage in which we aim to celebrate the outstanding courses we have on our doorstep.

Pitchcare

Pitchcare, in keeping with their commitment to raising the awareness and profile of the turf care industry and to supporting and promoting turf care professionals at all levels, had no hesitation in becoming a media sponsor of the Golf Environment Awards. Pitchcare affirm that environmental stewardship is an increasing part of a golf course manager’s remit, a fact evident from many of the detailed articles published in their magazine. Over the coming year, Pitchcare will champion the efforts of those who have successfully implemented environmental projects, whatever their resources, in the hope that it will inspire others to follow suit.