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SHAUGHNESSY GOLF
AND COUNTRY CLUB,
VANCOUVER, BC
Host Venue for 2023 CPKC Women’s Open
As the host venue for the CPKC Women’s Open, Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club was the perfect stage for the club and Golf Canada to showcase sustainability. With the course located on Musqueam People’s sacred land, the tournament provided a platform to honour this connection while also celebrating wildlife including the massive cedar and fir trees and eagles, coyotes, salmon, otters and deer. Cutthroat Creek is the last salmon-spawning creek in Vancouver and work to remove invasive species along the bank has allowed Salmon to return to the golf course property and beyond.
Pre-event planning ensured infrastructure and spectator routing steered clear of sensitive areas and a range of event-focused initiatives helped eliminate 27,000 plastic water bottles through the provision of water refill stations, and 85% of tournament waste was diverted from landfill. The carbon footprint was measured for the first time with a commitment to offset all unavoidable core emissions and a lasting legacy remains in the community through CPKC Has Heart, raising $2.9 million for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation and $580k for Royal Inland Hospital Foundation.
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These are based on the methodology of the internationally recognised Greenhouse Gas Protocol, with calculations based on international databases of carbon algorithms, to produce credible, accurate reporting and practical recommendations to help improve your carbon footprint year-on-year.
Sustainable Golf Certification
The OnCourse® program content, including best practices and key data, is synchronised with the Sustainable Golf Standard for facility operations, so that when a facility wants to apply for cer- tification, everything is in place to carry out a pre-certification review, and then a third-party expert verification. This is carried out either on-site or remotely by an Accredited Verifier.
Certifications last for three years and in some cases, this can slide to 4 or 5 years based on risk assessment. Each year between, certified facilities are required to update their information in On- Course® and can receive updated and trended Scorecard and Carbon Reports.
At the point of certification, the verifier, facility and GEO Foundation agree a suite of Continual Improvement Points, that help ensure continual improvement on priority topics ahead of certification renewal.
All certified facilities receive a Sustainable Golf Marketing Kit including a certification logo, poster, sticker pack, press release content and other ideas to help you celebrate your achievement in front of staff, golfers, and the public.
Sustainable Golf Leaderboard®
As soon as you sign the Pledge, your facility will also be added to the Sustainable Golf Leaderboard®. This helps represent all the facilities around the world that are involved.
As you progress through OnCourse®, annual reports and certification, more information and details will be added to your sustainability profile on the Leaderboard which is a ready-made webpage you can link to from your website!
Sharing tried and tested ideas and stories
All clubs are also invited, at any time, to share their projects and stories using the Sustainable Golf Highlights hub. It is easy to create a highlight for the global Highlights Hub, which