Every year, the course receives more and more visits from interested parties who not only come to play golf, but also to experience the various initiatives that have been made to become Denmark’s Greenest Golf Course.
Water is recycled on the golf course – and nutrition is therefore maintained in the circuit. In a future project, rainwater, which is led from the drainage systems to the low-lying golf lakes, will be pumped back to a reservoir by means of pumps powered by solar cells and a small local wind turbine. The green mower is now powered by electricity,and it has solar cells. The golf carts have got solar cells on the roof. The machines that cannot yet run on electricity have received a loving environmental treatment, so for example, the new fairway mower runs on common rail diesel, optimized for operation, this has made it 40% more enviromental friendly than the old one.
Sheep also gets a role. The latest effort is the maintenance of the rough with Gute sheep, a sheep breed that dates back to the Viking ages. In collaboration with a local farmer, it is ensured that the sheep along with the transportable fence moves around the right places on the field. Along with this organic weed control, delicious and healthy meat is produced under optimal animal welfare. Furthermore, the areas that are hard to access now being cared for by sheep, indeed as the golf club also uses the sheep to drive the weeds away, it now ends up in the sheep’s stomachs.
The golf course is no longer fertilized with traditional fertilizers, organic fertilizer, among other things are used. with cold-pressed seaweed algae, which improves the soil structure and therefore helps avoid snow molds disease etc.
As a positive side effect, new herdsmen, the preserved, green seeds, partridges etc. are thriving. The golfers can now meet a variety of small animals and watch these along with the larger animals such as hare and deer, and all visitors can enjoy the biodiversity of the trip around the course. The golf club currently has a development project with the development of micro-clovers that can save a lot of nitrogen and inhibit weeds. As a side win, it creates a beautiful and greener color in the off-season and on heavily loaded parts of the track. Micro clover also reduces the need for watering.
Since the golf course is not sprayed at all, dandelions from the grreen can be eaten – so perhaps the next club evening is called: Roast leg of lamb with a side golf course.
In order to involve and create co-ownership and pride in the golf club’s high environmental standard, the club has hands out a small tools that can take up dandilions easily for the players and engaged them in ecological operations.