For the fourth consecutive year, the Estrella Damm NA Andalucía Masters demonstrated its commitment to the environment by organizing a beach cleanup in Sotogrande, in which students from 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 the circuit's activities and practices, with a particular focus on generating a positive impact in the locations where it holds its events. Raising awareness among children about the need to care for natural resources is undoubtedly an investment in the future for a more environmentally friendly society.

A hundred children from the International School of Sotogrande and several teachers have participated in this activity which in a fun way has allowed them to realize the human impact on nature, since, despite being an apparently clean beach, they collected a large amount of waste and microplastics with the help of the Danish players Nicolai Højgaard and Thorbjørn Olesen.

Thorbjørn Olesen was delighted to accompany the children, as he considers himself a great nature lover and believes we all need to do more for the environment. “I’ve been skiing since I was a child, I love the mountains, and nature is a part of my life. For the last five or six years, I’ve become much more aware that we need to do more to improve our environment, especially those of us who travel so much by plane,” the Dane stated.

Similarly, Nicolai Højgaard has 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 cared for, but we don’t realize that it also depends on us.”.

When he's not competing in a tournament, Højgaard really enjoys taking long walks outdoors with his dog and is convinced that caring for the environment depends on everyone.

“Golfers travel a lot by plane and that has 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 daily lives.”.

Both the players and the children had a great time while also managing to remove a lot of waste from the beach, especially plastics.

The Green Drive program is part of the DP World Tour's Golf for Good initiative, a benchmark in the world of sports, which, among other objectives, has set out to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030, and reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

In addition, within the framework of this program, a new pioneering tool in professional golf has been implemented that allows DP World Tour players to calculate and offset their greenhouse gas emissions from their travel during tournaments.

Tickets for the Estrella Damm NA Andalucía Masters are now available, with discounts for federation members and free access for children under 13, and can be purchased here.

The Estrella Damm NA Andalucía Masters, a DP World Tour tournament valid for the Race to Dubai, which 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.

SOURCE: Tournament organizers.