The Legends Golf Course at Parris Island is now the world’s first military golf facility to achieve certification by the Golf Environment Organization for its commitment to efficient use of natural resources.

 

The golf course, part of the sprawling Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, includes 45 acres of native woodland that is home to such threatened species as fox squirrels, wood storks, bald eagles and ospreys. Course irrigation is drawn from 11 ponds on the property, which also provides natural habitat.

 

The Legends also includes a bluebird trail, with 10 purpose-built bird boxes that in two years have achieved 90 percent occupancy.

 

The course joins 14 other Lowcountry golf facilities in a wider environmental initiative, working together on a collective sustainability to maximize and protect natural resources.

 

The Golf Environment Organization, based in Scotland, is an international nonprofit dedicated to golf’s use of clean energy, sustaining wildlife and improving air and water quality through pollution control. (www.islandpacket.com)