"You are not alone"

It's good to see that Glencoe is not alone in it's collaborative spirit around golf!  Evidently the Golf Greenkeepers Assocation (GGA) and the British International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) have recently announced a partnership.
 
Whilst you may come to Fort William to get away from it all (enjoying peaceful golf on amazing greens at Ballachulish - where you have zero stress 'cos you just "turn up and get on") and escape from that busy world of professional golf and expensive, snooty courses, there is something in the proposed partnership.  One key stand, I think, focuses on eco-golf, and a whole new world of running golf courses in a sustainable way.  Something that IS relevant to us here in the Highlands - the last great wilderness of Europe?

With more on the partnership at
www.golfbusinessnews.com/news/courses/bigga-geo-partnership/?utm_source=Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=136500ad77-Weekly_Newsletter_January_21st_20111_21_2011&utm_medium=email

we are told that GEO and BIGGA will work together in the following areas:

• Communications – GEO and BIGGA will present new opinion and perspective through Greenkeeper International and via a new Sustainability Section at www.bigga.co.uk;
• Education – GEO and members of the GEOSA Network will contribute to national and regional seminars and workshops;
• Workplaced tools and programmes – BIGGA will promote GEO’s Self-Assessment and OnCourse™ guidance resources to help greenkeepers evaluate and forward plan their sustainability actions;
• Recognition for members – BIGGA and GEO will work together to encourage and incentivise participation in GEO Certified™.  BIGGA will also promote the achievements of GEO Certified™ golf facilities, and especially the greenkeepers and course managers that contributed to those facilities all round high sustainability performance.