According to the most played sport in the open air with the most interaction with the environment of the sport is golf. Only in Europe covering 300,000 hectares, 6000 near a golf course and near the golf population is 6,000,000. Golf industry is expanding and has a growing feature of the golf is even more social responsibilities.

Golf courses across a sports field is an important green space for the city has a qualification. Golf fields, the nature preserve's natural tissue and can help protect water resources In the rich. The golf course is known to increase the quality of turf grass water serves as a filter to biologically very active.

Turf grass management is associated with ecological science. How it can be grown turf selection, appraisal procedures, the kültivasyon applications, irrigation and drainage systems will be determined depending on environmental conditions. All of this golf course has a big effect on the ecology. In other words, a golf course manager at the same time should be a good environmental manager.



Golf playing field, occupies a small portion of the field. The remaining 52% non-lik play area grass, trees, wetlands, heathland and consists of the natural environment.

Research, good design is planned and managed the golf course and location of the natural ecological environment of good golf by turning put to be environmentally friendly.

The following are reasons golf is believed to damage the environment.

Golf used in the field of chemicals and water used in irrigation, to keep the environment clean and well maintained golf created conditions that threaten the environment is believed to have an audience.


Place on top of water, pesticides and fertilizers and other substances and contaminants that are infected
Beach wear strips to the stream, reducing the quality of tea to water
Large amounts of water for irrigation of the golf facility to be spent on job
Impairment and loss of natural areas
To make contact with chemical substances and to create health risks due to


Drugs used in the maintenance of golf courses in agriculture, nitrogen, phosphorus fertilizer to the water channel was found to permeate the mix. One of golf courses and the pharmaceutical use of chemical fertilizers used in agriculture is more than six times the annual amount is determined. A 100-hectare golf course and the amount of annual spending of about 1 million metreküpdür water. That amount of a settlement with 12 thousand population is equivalent to the annual average water consumption. Therefore, only the commercial and tourist investment in golf çıkarılıolarak not being seen, in terms of natural resources must be evaluated to ensure continued.

Environment-friendly golf, but golf facilities in the framework of environmental management can be achieved through awareness. In this way, the social responsibility of public officials and environmental public golf is a sport which will be shown.

Golf in the environmental management, environmental legislation will allow a decrease in the cost of compatible applications, by providing marketing and public relations benefits the development will increase.

Environmental awareness is of golf with the following conditions are met, becomes more likely.

Golf lands on the plant, clearing and excavation to create a design to be done in minimizing
To prevent erosion and discharge of the pool and / or filtration to the pool to be done
Excess water collected in the pool, the next to be used in irrigation activities
Be used instead of natural turf of the green land
Hole golf course in the initial and middle areas of damage to trees as well as the position determination