Hever Castle scoops sustainability award - Golf News - Tlty Sports

Hever Caslte Golf’s head greenkeeper Rob Peers with the award

Hever Castle Golf & & Wellbeing in Kent has actually won Sustainable Project of the Year at the 2023Golf Environment Awards, which were held throughout last month’s British Turf Management Exhibition in Harrogate.

The golf club, which is found a mile in the future from the historical Hever Castle & &Gardens, beat competitors from St Andrews Links, Royal Mid-Surrey and also Pannal golf clubs to win the award in a group which is made to acknowledge clubs that have actually effectively established a lasting task to make certain a much better setting, with clear objectives and also purposes.

The winning of the award is greatly to the initiatives of Hever Head Greenkeeper Rob Peers, that looked for to sustainably access an added water throughout progressively dry spell- struck summer seasons whilst supplying a terrific routine for vegetation and also animals. Peers has actually developed shallows to reuse drainage, increasing water as well as additionally environments.Last year Hever was a jogger- up in Environmental Golf Course of the Year award and also a finalist in Outstanding Environmental Project of the year award for its job producing a location conductive to wild animals. Worn tires from lawn mowers made use of on the environment-friendlies were made use of to produce a pest internet and also even more fertilizer drums were changed right into a serpent chamber. The club additionally took on a number of various other lasting campaigns consisting of setting up photovoltaic panels, making use of crossbreed lawn mowers and also the recycling of drainage.The Golf Environment Awards evaluating panel was comprised of agents from STRI, The R&A, Aquatrols, BIGGA, Syngenta, Tillers Turf & &Textron