Market Harborough Golf Club wins national award

Market Harborough Golf Club is celebrating landing a top national honour.

The thriving club on Great Oxendon Road launched its environmental policy in April 2019 in a determined bid to become cleaner and greener.

And its efforts have paid off in fine style as the historic club has won the Home Unions Award at the Golf Environment Awards (GEA) ceremony in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Steve Winder, chairman of the 122-year-old club, said: “We are delighted to win this leading accolade.

“The project encompassed in the club's policy is gathering momentum.

“We have now forged strong links with the Wildlife Trust and the Owl & Hawk Trust.”

Steve said that they are aiming to work with local primary schoolchildren in 2020.

“We want to encourage them with new environmental initiatives,” he said.

“We are also continuing to source more and more products and services from local businesses to make us even greener.”

Steve said they are also urging over 15 other Leicestershire and Rutland golf clubs to launch their own environmental campaigns.

“We’d like them to consider joining together to collectively promote the protection of our individual environments for future generations,” he said.

“Golf clubs can too often operate outside the local community.

“But we want Market Harborough Golf Club to be at the heart of our fantastic community.”

Set up in 1898, the successful club on the southern edge of Harborough boasts about 550 members.