This year’s Sustainable Golf Week has a main theme centring around communities and how golf can both support and strengthen communities.
The Ladies European Tour (LET) has tournaments all around the globe and as a result, it is paramount for the Tour to leave a legacy to the communities it visits and serves.
Community is at the heart of a lot of initiatives which have happened on the LET in 2024 whether it was junior clinics, beach cleans or donating to charitable causes that impact the local community.
At the Dutch Ladies Open, more than 40 girls aged between eight and 21 were on site to watch Dutch star Anne Van Dam practice and they also had the opportunity to ask several LET professionals questions in a press conference which was held before the Pro-Am.
Other initiatives on site included encouraging spectators to cycle to the venue, asking players, volunteers and spectators to bring their own refillable water bottles with refill stations available on site and event materials from the previous year’s tournament being recycled and turned into gifts given out in the Pro-Am.
Jelle Sprée, Promoter of the Dutch Ladies Open, said: “Sustainability has an impact on all players during the tournament week, from organising sustainability travel to and from the golf course to enjoying the locally produced catering on offer, as well as eliminating plastic water bottle and using our on-course water stations. We have made lots of progress in two years and plan to keep doing so.”
In Sweden, the Dormy Open Helsingborg had the ADHD Foundation on site as their fundraising partner with the charity helping to spread awareness of ADHD and bringing together support for families of children with ADHD.
The following week at the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, LET and DP World Tour professionals Ellinor Südow, Johanna Gustavsson, Sara Kjellker, Marcus Kinhult and Jonas Blixt teamed up to attend a beach clean alongside local pre-school children.
At the KPMG Women’s Irish Open, Friday saw Play in Pink for Breast Cancer Day with players, caddies and anyone attending the tournament encouraged to wear pink in support of the National Breast Cancer Institute – the charity partner of the tournament.
Similarly, at the Aramco Team Series presented by PIF – Shenzhen, #PinkSunday saw players wearing pink on course while 1,095 mammogram appointments were donated to the local community thanks to 78 birdies and 2 eagles carded on the 16th hole.
The Ladies European Tour (LET) and the LET Access Series (LETAS) is committed to recognising and promoting great sustainable work being done by the LET community as part of the Tour’s initiative LET Celebrating the Green presented by Dow in partnership with GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf.
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