For the fourth consecutive year, the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters demonstrated its commitment to the environment by organizing a clean-up of the Sotogrande beach in which the students of the International School and players Nicolai Højgaard and Thorbjørn Olesen participated.
This initiative is part of the DP World Tour’s Green Drive program, which promotes sustainability in all of the circuit’s activities and practices, with a special interest in generating a positive impact on the places where its events are held. Raising awareness among children about the need to take care of natural resources is, without a doubt, a commitment to the future for a greener society.
A hundred children from the International School of Sotogrande and several teachers have participated in this activity that playfully allowed them to realize the human impact on nature, since, despite being an apparently clean beach, they collected a lot of waste and microplastics with the help of Danish players Nicolai Højgaard and Thorbjørn Olesen.
Thorbjørn Olesen was delighted to accompany the children as he considers himself a great lover of nature and believes that we should all do a little more for the environment.
“I’ve been skiing since I was a child, I love the mountains and nature is part of my life. For the last five or six years I’ve been much more aware that we need to do more to improve our environment, especially us who travel a lot by plane,” said the Dane.
In the same vein, Nicolai Højgaard emphasized that he would like to do this type of activity more often.
“Sometimes we take for granted that the beaches are clean and well maintained, but we don’t realize that it’s also up to us.”
When he is not competing in a tournament, Højgaard enjoys taking long walks outdoors with his dog and is convinced that caring for the environment depends on everyone.
“We golfers travel a lot by plane and that causes a negative impact, all the more reason for us to participate in initiatives like this and, above all, to keep this attitude in mind in our day-to-day lives.”
Both players and children had a good time while at the same time managing to remove a lot of waste, especially plastic, from the beach.
The Green Drive program is part of the DP World Tour’s Golf for Good initiative, which is a benchmark in the world of sport and, among other objectives, aims to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030, and to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040.
In addition, as part of this program, a new pioneering tool has been implemented in professional golf that allows DP World Tour players to calculate and offset their greenhouse gas emissions when traveling during tournaments.
Tickets for the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters are now available, with discounts for federated players and free access for children under 13, and can be purchased here.
The Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters, a DP World Tour tournament valid for the Race to Dubai that is held thanks to the essential collaboration of the Real Club de Golf Sotogrande, is sponsored by Estrella Damm and the Junta de Andalucía, in addition to being co-financed with European funds and having been declared an event of exceptional public interest by the Government of Spain.
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