Products & Supply Chains
Everything we do as an industry has an impact. Local decisions can have global implications. The products and services that golf uses need to be carefully considered to ensure a fair deal for businesses and for our planet.
From golf clubs to events to product manufacturers, all golf businesses can consume fewer and smarter materials, and opt for more efficient and localized supply chains.
Strong links
Globalization presents a challenge to manufacturers, service providers and contractors everywhere. We should try to ensure that globalized trade and supply chains don’t cost the lives of local businesses, and products and services should be vetted for hidden environmental costs.
By integrating social and environmental issues into purchasing decisions, golf can play its part in the drive to develop efficient, equitable, localized and lower carbon product and service supply chains. From facilities to events, to manufacturers and tourism promoters, we can consume fewer and smarter materials while stimulating local supply chains.
When scaled across global golf, the impact of such decisions is enormous. Thousands of golf businesses, in thousands of regions around the world, can deliver valuable environmental innovations and social benefits through socially and environmentally responsible procurement policies.
Money talks
By changing our purchasing patterns we change the future. The golf business can use the power of its financial muscle to optimize the environmental and ethical quality of its products and services. Small decisions can have big consequences. Insisting that products are de-packaged before delivery, that packaging is re-used and recycled, and sourcing products that have a recycled and recyclable content, will have a huge positive impact.
By changing our mindset we change the world. For example, waste is just a product that needs processing and zero waste is a realistic target for most golf businesses. Communicating the progress we’re making by adopting such strategies to our customers adds to our strength as an industry through positive perceptions.
What's more, consumers are equating sustainable products with high quality products - adding to customer satisfaction and loyalty.
