CMASA CONFERENCE IMPRESSIONS – PART 2
We continue our discussion with Alistair Collier – Founder of the John Collier Golf Survey – as he offers his personal feedback on the CMASA Conference at Fancourt, which he attended as a delegate.
We continue our discussion with Alistair Collier – Founder of the John Collier Golf Survey – as he offers his personal feedback on the CMASA Conference at Fancourt, which he attended as a delegate.
In July of this year, when one of BG’s Founder Partners – Alistair Collier of the John Collier Survey – indicated his intentions to attend this year’s CMASA Conference at Fancourt, I asked if he could share his impressions of the event with us, and he kindly agreed.
Why not talk about sustainable golf, and the importance of the celebration of National Women’s Day throughout August?
In issue 5 we looked at some high-level areas in terms of the John Collier Survey for 2024, and discussed what it takes to win the Top Club Award, and we are now in discussion with Alistair Collier (AC), JCS’s founder, about the certification process, which is at the heart of the survey.
There is a worrying intensification of what is termed, the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change, the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss, and the crisis of pollution and waste.
The results of the seventeenth John Collier Annual Survey on environmental compliance, social responsibility and good governance (ESG) for South Africa golf courses have been released and the tale of the tape shows Elements Private Golf Reserve as the winner of this year’s top award, with Umhlali Country Club and Olivewood Private Estate receiving honourable mentions.
As World environment day (5th June) and the announcement of the John Collier Survey’s annual awards, approaches, BG took the chance to ask Alistair Collier (AC), who is the founder and author of the survey, what he felt could be seen as the main takeaways this year.
So, the dust has settled on this version (2023 to 2024) of the John Collier Survey, at least in terms of the putting together, publishing and circulating the digital version of the survey.
However, it would be fair to say that the contents of the survey have, or should have, raised a dust storm or two of their own! These dust devils would be in various areas, but principally in terms of static, or even slowing levels of compliance. They would also be a factor in relation to matters that encompass our responsibilities, as a golf community, to run our affairs at every level, from clubs to associations, as transparently and ethically as possible.
In the last issue we asked Alistair Collier, how one could help to ensure stability and create an environment, in which the normal functioning of the club, and the work of its office bearers, is not disturbed or usurped, by self-serving individuals or cliques?
Some time ago I wrote a piece, wherein the GM I was interviewing felt that as far as sustainability was concerned, if he could get his facility through to month end, without going insolvent, then that was about all the sustainability that he could cope with. Naturally, the underlying theme to his monthly grind, was keeping a tight rein on his expenditure.