EGA Strengthens Work in Sustainability with New Strategy and Turfgrass Roadmap

30 Sep 2025

The EGA is pleased to announce the development of two key documents that will guide the EGA’s work and golf’s sustainable development across Europe: a new EGA Sustainability Strategy, and a Sustainable Turfgrass Roadmap for Golf in Europe.

The updated Strategy outlines how the EGA will help to coordinate, support, and represent member federations on environmental sustainability topics, while the Roadmap provides a proactive framework to prepare the game for future turf management challenges. Both have been developed collaboratively alongside experts, member federations, and partners, including guidance from the GEO Sustainable Golf Foundation and further input from Burson, with approval through relevant EGA Working Groups and Committees.

Highlights from the two documents, which will be proposed for final approval at the EGA’s upcoming Annual General Meeting, and published later in the year, include:

Sustainability Strategy - Objectives

  • Enhance golf’s contribution to priority societal issues by reducing resource use, emissions, and environmental impacts, while strengthening the sport’s positive role for nature, climate, and communities.

  • Improve golf’s position and profile across Europe by harmonising commitments and actions and representing the sport effectively in EU discussions.

  • Play a leading role in global sustainability efforts by enabling European golf to step forward confidently as a leader within international golf and across sport more widely

Turfgrass Roadmap - Objectives

  • Provide a prioritised long-term plan that will help guide collective action to ensure playability of European golf courses in the future

  • Guide further research, education, use of technology, data collation and application of Integrated Turf Management (ITM) principles and practices

  • Help ensure that golf’s approach to turfgrass management evolves with regulation and other potential resource restrictions

In parallel, the EGA is progressing with important initiatives, including the Sustainable Golf Forum 2025, stronger representation at EU level, the launch of a Knowledge & Innovation Hub, and the development of common data frameworks to measure progress.

Building on its longstanding involvement in environmental issues and the renewed sustainability drive launched in 2024, these further steps represent important progress in strengthening the EGA’s role in sustainability. With 49 member associations, the EGA  is ideally placed to align commitments and pathways across European golf. Its role focuses on three action areas: coordinate (bringing members together for shared impact), develop (promoting knowledge, best practice and tools), and advocate (representing golf’s commitments and progress at EU level). This work is being advanced through a collaborative structure of expert working groups, ensuring the EGA plays its most effective part in supporting members. Collaboration with partners such as the GEO Sustainable Golf Foundation and Burson, who advise the EGA on political and regulatory matters in Brussels, has proven to be an integral part to advancing meaningful sustainability initiatives across European golf.

The EGA extends its gratitude to all member federations, partners, and individual experts who have already contributed to this initiative and looks forward to building on this collaboration to create a more sustainable future for golf in Europe.