The European Tour Group has unveiled its latest Green Drive Sustainability “Scorecard” for 2025, with the results showing impressive progress in advancing sustainability across the Tour—most notably reducing the carbon footprint of leading tournaments and its offices around the world.
In 2022, the European Tour Group became the only golf Tour to commit to achieving net zero carbon when signing the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. The same year, the organisation set out a robust scoping and methodology for collecting a wide range of sustainability indicators, including emissions data, working closely with external experts the GEO Sustainable Golf Foundation. This focused on deep-dive data tracking at nine strategically selected events—spanning a range of geographies, tournament types, and operational contexts, and including all Rolex Series events. For each tournament a detailed Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions footprint is calculated that includes: energy; water; waste; freight and hauling; organiser travel and accommodation; infrastructure and materials; and fan and player travel.
Operational emissions are also calculated annually for the Group’s offices in Wentworth, Adlington, Dubai and China. This includes electricity, heating, water, waste, staff travel and accommodation, commuting, procurement, and general office operations.
Key climate results from the 2025 scorecard include:
- A 48% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions for the Tour’s offices
- A 28% reduction in Scope 1, Scope 2 and core Scope 3 emissions since 2023 for our “Sustainable 9” events
- 98% of tournament waste was diverted from landfill, with 530 tonnes reused or donated
- 99% of fuel used at “Sustainable 9” events was HVO or blended low-carbon fuel
Speaking about the 2025 Scorecard Maria Grandinetti-Milton, Director of Sustainability at the European Tou Group, said: “You can’t reduce what you haven’t measured, and our annual Scorecard gives us the data we need to set priorities, analyse progress, and pivot if we need to. It also holds our feet to the fire as a public facing document. This is our third report and we continue to show excellent emissions reduction progress, which is testament to the hard work and commitment of our teams.
“The past 12 months have seen continued innovation. Whether it’s rolling-out hydrogen and solar power at events as we did at the recent Genesis Scottish Open, embracing remote broadcast production, launching a Championship Charter for our promoters, or holding an annual Sustainability Awards for our network of suppliers—I’m proud that we are continuing to take a strong leadership role in sustainability.”
Jonathan Smith, Executive Director at GEO Sustainable Golf Foundation added:” There is tremendous breadth and depth to the sustainability work of the European Tour Group, which is encapsulated in their new five year strategic plan. This centres on their organisational leadership and the things they can control most directly. From there it incrementally extends out through a growing number of responsible championships and innovative partnerships. Then pushing further into wider reach and influence amongst spectators and fans. With the restoration of nature; conservation of resources and emissions reduction; and strengthening of sustainable communities all embedded as key impact priorities.
“What is perhaps most interesting in their journey is how so many actions now fall into the business as usual category, leaving time and space to focus on larger innovations and activations that drive further with partners, suppliers, spectators and players”.
