“Sustainability is not a nice-to-have, if you’re not sustainable you’ll be out of business very quickly,” says Jeremy Slessor, European Golf Design’s Managing Director. In this interview, Jeremy explains what golf venues can do to become more sustainable and highlights how the EGD Designed (in association with Bernhard Langer) Dunes course at European Tour Destinations COSTA NAVARINO is leading the way.
EGD, the golf course design company of the European Tour, is a carbon-neutral design company. EGD designed the first new development in the world to be recognised with the GEO (GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf) Certified Development status and has projects throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Asia.
Jeremy Slessor, Managing Director of EGD, said: “For many years sustainability has been part of the way in which we conceptualise, design and construct courses. Now, our updated and strengthened strategy aims to deliver even more positive and measurable environmental and social impacts through course development and renovation, alongside new goals and actions across various other aspects of the business.”