The Green Drive programme, integrated in the Golf for Good initiative of the DP World Tour, is using a promotion aimed at DP World Tour ticket holders, with fans now able to measure and offset their travel and accommodation greenhouse gas emissions when attending DP World Tour events and enter a prize draw to win a VIP package.
The Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters spectators can use a tool to measure their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from flights, transport, and accommodation. After that, they can find some tips and suggestions for ideas on how to best reduce their travel-related emissions. Finally, a portfolio of high-quality certified carbon credits are available in the offsetting tool. These can be purchased to offset travel emissions that cannot be avoided or reduced.
To enter the draw to win a VIP package including accommodation, hospitality, transportation, and more, fans just need to click this link and offset their emissions by purchasing carbon credits from AQ Green Tec.
This initiative adds to a new tool that will allow DP World Tour players to calculate and offset their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when travelling to and from tournaments – a first for professional golf.
The easy-to-use tool will allow players to input their event related flight information and then purchase verified carbon credits to offset their calculated GHG emissions. Carbon credits in the tool are all from Gold Standard accredited projects that support a range of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The platform will go live at the start of the 2025 DP World Tour season in November.
Several players have already taken the initiative of offsetting their annual travel in recent years. This new tool will encourage greater take-up across the full 800+ membership, with a target set for 90% of players across the DP World Tour, Challenge Tour, Legends Tour and G4D Tour regularly offsetting their tournament travel by 2027.
Five-time Race to Dubai Champion Rory McIlroy has been offsetting his tournament travel related GHG emissions for the past four years. He said: “As golfers we have the opportunity to travel all over the world doing the job we love, but I do have a conscience about the impact that can have on the environment, and that’s why I began taking steps a few years ago to offset my carbon footprint and make my travel neutral. I think we can all play our part in some way or another, and it’s great to see the DP World Tour launching this new tool to help and encourage members to track and offset their travel.”
The Green Drive programme was developed to promote environmental responsibility in order to generate a positive impact at each of the tournaments on the tour's calendar. In addition, the DP World Tour has signed the United Nations Sport for Climate Action initiative and has committed to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030, and to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040.
Local support is integral for the Green Drive programme and here the efforts and full commitment to sustainability of the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters’ venue, Real Club de Golf Sotogrande, shine. The annual cleaning of the beach of Sotogrande (in which last year Jorge Campillo and Rasmus Hojgaard helped the International School of Sotogrande students), the birdlife census recently launched and the endorsement of its environmental commitment through the GEO (Golf Environment Organization) certification speak loud about the Real Club de Golf Sotogrande and Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters environmental aims.
Tickets for the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters, to be played at Real Club de Golf Sotogrande from October 17-20, can be purchased here.
The Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters, an event in the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai made possible by the essential contribution of the Real Club de Golf Sotogrande, is sponsored by Estrella Damm and the Junta de Andalucía, jointly funded by the EU and was declared Event of Exceptional Public Interest by the Government of Spain.
