Syngenta Operation Pollinator Award Winners

Find out more about the of the hugely successful Syngenta Operation Pollinator Award winners. See how their practical tips and tricks could be incorporated on your course.

Also the first place to find out when entries to the Syngenta Operation Pollinator Award opens each year, judged as part of the STRI Golf Environment Awards.

Please note some of the Award Winners featured have now changed roles or clubs. In some instances being an ecological champion has been instrumental in their gaining new positions to manage. The experience of all the Winners remains valuable to share and inspire others to get involved.

Grant Stewart - Huntercombe GC

Huntercombe success balances golf and enhancing ecology - 2024 Winner

Read about the success of Grant Stewart and the Oxfordshire club's multiple

Newquay Golf Club

Newquay attracts birds back for seaside links - 2022 Winner

Hear how Dan Kendle and the team at Newquay created habitats for Cornwall's coughs

Steve Thompson of John O'Gaunt Golf Club

Operation Pollinator Champion proves a winner - 2017 Winner

Steve Thompson had long been an advocate of Operation Pollinator in habitat creation

North Foreland Golf Club

North Foreland wins first Operation Pollinator Award - Winner 2013

Dan McGrath was the first winner of the Operation Pollinator Award. Find out what he

Corhampton Ecology Group with Iestyn Carpenter

Corhampton player power drives ecology success - 2023 Winner

Iestyn Carpenter reveals his secrets to restoring habitats for rare species that

Effingham Golf Club - Jon Budd and Steve Slinger

Effingham blooming with wildflowers in course design - 2021 Winner

John Budd has transformed wildflower habitats to provide an ecological oasis that

Anthony Darker Elsham Golf Club

Elsham shows the way for wildflower habitat - 2015 Winner

Elsham Golf Club's Anthony Darker was inspired by an early Operation Pollinator