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On the front cover of this month’s issue, we refer to the ‘tale of the tape’, which is a boxing reference, by which combatants were ‘measured up’ for a fight.

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.

How important is a course’s
conditioning, in terms of its playability,
within the context of the JC Survey?

When the John Collier Survey started researching environmental compliance and good governance some 20 years ago, we assumed that the best source for information would be the clubs’ greenkeepers and superintendents. At that time, the participation rate was 9.6 % of clubs in South Africa, and there was a compliance level of 30%.

Dear Club Manager, Director of Golf, Course Superintendent: Why not, on Tuesday 12th September, together with organisations such as the PGA, the British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA), the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA), the Australian Sports Turf Managers Association (ASTMA), the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association (CGSA) and the Federation of European Golf Greenkeepers Associations (FEGGA) along with the several chapters of the South African Turfgrass association (TGMASA), participate in the international “Thank A Greenkeeper Day”? It is an opportune moment, to help remind us that without our greenkeepers, there simply is no golf, and it comes at the start of the spring season in the Southern Hemisphere.

This Annual Survey provides an essential tool for chairpersons, management committees and club management of golf courses, as well as industry representative bodies, as it constitutes a benchmark for all golf clubs and associations, from which to measure themselves against latest trends, and reference recent international research into the topic of sport environmental sustainability, which is becoming an important dimension of the global sport academy. In summary, the Annual Survey takes a closer look at the findings regarding environmental compliance, in the light of international research into sport environmental sustainability.

This Annual Survey provides an essential tool for chairpersons, management committees and club management of golf courses, as well as industry representative bodies, as it constitutes a benchmark for all golf clubs and associations, from which to measure themselves against latest trends, and reference recent international research into the topic of sport environmental sustainability, which is becoming an important dimension of the global sport academy. In summary, the Annual Survey takes a closer look at the findings regarding environmental compliance, in the light of international research into sport environmental sustainability.