The European Tour Group Sustainability Awards, first launched in 2024, will return in 2025 in a new and expanded global format.
The awards are designed to showcase and celebrate the various suppliers that have pioneered sustainable innovations and practices in their work supporting tournaments on the DP World Tour, HotelPlanner Tour, Legends Tour or G4D Tour.
Entries are now open and close at midnight on October 2, with five individual categories: Venues; Staging; Operations; Tech and Innovation; and Catering. Each category will now have a winner from three geographies: Europe, Middle East, and Rest of the World. To be eligible, each entry must relate to a project or initiative that was delivered between 1st September 2024 and 1st October 2025.
The judging panel is comprised of a mix of experts from golf tournament operations and sustainability in golf, including external experts from the GEO Sustainable Golf Foundation. The winners will be announced on November 12 at a hybrid in-person and remote ceremony at the DP World Tour’s season-ending event, the DP World Tour Championship, where the winner of the season-long Race to Dubai will also be crowned.
The European Tour Group is committed to being the most sustainable professional golf circuit in the world. As part of its Green Drive sustainability programme, the organisation has committed to halving operational and owned tournament greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero carbon by 2040.
A key element of the Tour’s overall Sustainability Strategy is that all suppliers are required to meet robust sustainable procurement policies and are encouraged to deliver best in class solutions at events. These Awards will recognise best practice and the spirit of innovation that already exists.
Speaking about the Awards Maria Grandinetti-Milton, Director of Sustainability at the European Tour Group, said: “Delivering a golf tournament is a huge team effort, involving a wide network of trusted suppliers. Finding ways to reduce resource use, waste and emissions needs our full supply chain to play their part and join us on this journey.
“These awards are a chance to further stimulate this spirit of innovation, share best practice and celebrate progress. We focused on the Middle East region in our first year and the really positive feedback means we have decided to make the Awards truly global for 2025. Alongside my fellow judges, I’m excited to see a broad range of sector-leading sustainability initiatives submitted.”
Jonathan Smith, Executive Director of the GEO Sustainable Golf Foundation added: “It is great to see a major sports organisation like the European Tour Group lean so heavily into sustainability – across so many strands of operations, championships, partnerships and wider reach and influence.
“These awards highlight how suppliers are at the heart of making events more sustainable, and also how events can be demonstration sites for a wide range of innovation and new technology, that in turn can contribute to wider sustainable cities and communities.”
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