Environmentally Friendly Golf Courses

As Diversified Investment Group (DIG)’s president and CEO, Donald Marr leads resort and real estate development projects globally. Donald and his company work to increase environmentally sustainable practices for their luxury golf courses and residential communities.
Golf courses, especially PGA Tour-level ones, must live up to the aesthetic standard of an expanse of relatively uniform green grass. For this reason, courses require a lot of water to keep the grass healthy, along with potentially harmful pesticides and herbicides to keep the landscape clear.
In recent years, however, engineers, architects, and landscapers have been working to make golf courses more environmentally friendly. One way to do this is to create an irrigation system so that water can be reused rather than wasted as runoff. The course can also be carefully organized to allow for out-of-bounds areas that can provide a habitat for wildlife.
While golf courses are susceptible to fungi and weeds that have traditionally been treated chemically, strategies like using compost to improve the soil health or using sugar and citric acid as alternative forms of chemical treatment have been helping golf courses all over the world reduce their negative environmental impact.
