Annual Survey 2024 to 2025 Discussion | Part 1
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.
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.
The John Collier team visited the annual PGA Show in Orlando, Florida from January 22-24, 2025.
JCG reports that the experience is certainly worth the hype, and anyone who is serious about their role in the game is there, and ready to do business.
Given the increasing importance of ESG in day-to-day business, when I heard that Alistair Collier (AC) had attended the Environmental, Social, Governance Africa Conference & Expo in Johannesburg at the Sandton Convention Centre I asked him to share his key take-outs from the event.
In Part Four of the 17th John Collier Survey on environmental compliance, social responsibility and governance (ESG) for South African Golf Courses (this survey can be accessed on the John Collier website), the research deals with the issue of social responsibility.
To better understand what social responsibility entails, one needs to look no further than the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). For example, SDG 1 deals with “No Poverty”, SDG 2 “Zero Hunger”, SDG 3 with “Good Health and Well Being”, SDG with 4 “Quality Education”, SDG 5 with “Gender Equality” SDG 6 with “Clean Water and Sanitation”, SDG 8 with “Decent Work and Economic Growth”, SDG 10 with “Reduced Inequalities”, while SDG 12 covers “Responsible Consumption and Production”.
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.