The Scottish Golf Environment Group can help with:
• Free best practice and legislation advice on managing and creating habitats and landscape features such as coastal links, grasslands, woodlands, heathlands, wetlands and ponds.
• Free advice on nature surveys and protecting and providing habitats for flora and fauna species, environmental training and integrated management planning.
• Free advice on water resource management, sustainable drainage, waste reduction and energy efficiency. We can help clubs obtain specialist audits (some free of charge) and we promote green technologies such as recycled products and renewable energy sources.
• We can assist with developing practical projects and have information on grants and sources of project funding along with advice for new developments and course extensions.
• We can assist clubs in producing Integrated Management Plans (IMPS) and advice on how to run ‘greener’ events.
• Clubs can gain recognition for their environmental management practices through the Scottish Golf Environment Certificates scheme.
These pages contain information on key issues relating to sustainable golf facility management. In this section you will find a range of downloadable guidance which will assist you in your efforts to tackle environmental management of golf facilities.
We encourage clubs to work through the 4 stage SGEG Environment Programme on the right.