Swan Golf Designs join Golf Environment Europe

Swan Golf Designs, professional golf course architects of international repute and experience, working in some 25 countries has become a Technical Member of Golf Environment Europe. Howard Swan’s practice is the first design firm to do so and the practice will also sponsor GEE’s Environmental Innovation and Technology Network.

By this agreement Swan Golf Designs marks its commitment to support environmental education and information exchange within European golf.

Swan’s support of the Innovation and Technology Network will facilitate practical projects across a wide range of environmental topics and bring to it vast experience in aspects of the game’s physical development.

In addition Swan Golf Designs will contribute to the collation and coordination of information on developmental approaches, protocols and procedures on European Golf courses.

“Our mission has always been to couch our designs into the natural landscape and environment” and this is a core philosophy for us. The recent launch of our Environmental Policy Statement is now added to by our membership of GEE,” said Principal Architect, Howard Swan.

“Our respective aims and objectives are the same – to lay out … and see managed … environmentally sensitive designs, always striving for that sustainable aim, financially and socially too,” he added.

Swan Golf Designs follow the principles and practices enshrined in both the European Institute of Golf Course Architect’s Environmental Policy Statement and the Best Practice Guidelines of The R & A.

The Innovation and Technology Network, which this sponsorship supports, was formed by Golf Environment Europe in partnership with the Sports Turf Research Institute, the Scandinavian Turfgrass Foundation, Cranfield Centre for Water Science and the University of Pisa in Italy.

It cooperates with other researchers and educators in Europe and North Carolina State University. The Network serves to help coordinate and disseminate technical environmental information within the European golf sector.

For more information contact Jonathan Smith of Golf Environment Europe at 0044 (0) 1620 850 659, or at jonathan@golfenvironmenteurope.org.

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